Welcome to our first exhibit!
Curated by Christina Massey of the WoArt Blog

Featuring Artists:

Elizabeth Alexander, Nicole Banowertz, Siara Berry, Sarah E. Brook, Kelly Campanella, Ann Carrington, Kate Casanova, Nancy Cohen, Lu Colby, Melissa Dadourian, Twyla Exner, Stephanie Garon, Meghan Gates, Samuelle Green, Laural Hartman, Sun Young Kang, Yeh Rim Lee, Bonny Leibowitz, Tina Linville, Carolyn Mason, Susan Meyer, Alicia Renadette, Elizabeth Riley, Sawyer Rose, Hannah Smith, Michelle Stitzlein, Holly Wong, April Wright, Millicent Young, Liying Zhang

Online exhibitions have not always had the best reputation in the Art World. Yet the Art World had no choice but to adapt given the recent events of the pandemic. The entire world has been asked to stay home and there is still no idea of exactly how or when or even if things will ever be the same again. The Art World has been so heavily dependent upon big gatherings between blockbuster museum shows and art fairs that it is very uncertain how such events will continue in the future.

Changing a Point of View is an online group exhibition featuring 30 female identifying artists. While the works vary greatly in style, content and material, together they perhaps can change a few minds about how we look at art shows online. Without the constraints of budget, space or equipment that a traditional brick and mortar show would have, I was free to select work solely on its aesthetic and artistic qualities and conceptual ideas, using the images to tell a part of the larger collective story, one of which we are all involved. Like it or not, we are in the era of online shows. Even still, I could not help myself but to envision this show in a grand beautiful museum, as the work is truly of museum quality. I ask viewers to imagine themselves walking through large galleries, the works shifting slightly into clusters of themes like chapters of a novel.

Take notice of subtle repetitions, the use of household objects from furniture, silverware, hoses or dust pans, some where these materials were completely transformed whereas others they were created. References to Nature are evident in a variety of works, ranging from subjects like a horizon to slightly odd botanical forms, cellular molecules and cavernous spaces. It was important to me to include a wide variety of artists, not only in materials, which range from fiber, paper, plaster, cement, wood, hair, ceramics, wire, metal, glass, video, plastics and more but artistic styles that range from minimal and monochromatic to maximal, incorporating a wide range of found and created objects, abstract to representational.

I highly encourage all viewers to click on the artist's images and go to their websites to learn more about each individual's motivations and process and think about how each artist is Changing a Point of View , be that from unpaid domestic labor, to a world becoming ever more technological, or how we view and think about changes in our environment and Nature. Each artist selected is truly exceptional, and worth the time engaging in the conversations their work creates. I envision this exhibition as an opportunity to bring artists together that may never be able to in real life. Enjoy the journey with me. Let's change some minds.

All SHE Makes partnered with the WoArtBlog in an open call for sculpture and installation artists.

The WoArtBlog is an Instagram blog created by artist and curator Christina Massey that features contemporary women artists daily. The posts tell a story on what is happening within her own life similar to that of a traditional blog, or they are used to make commentary and observations on both National and Global events. Each post is curated to tell a larger story which is highlighted in the themes of the WoArt Weekly.

Massey is an award winning artist from Brooklyn, NY who has had over a dozen solo exhibitions in the New York City area and has curated for such venues as the Hunterdon Art Museum, BioBAT Artspace, Cluster Gallery, ISE Foundation and more. Artists she has worked with have gone on to be awarded such prestigious awards as the Pollock Krasner Grants, Joan Mitchell Foundation Grants, Yaddo Artist’s Residency, MacDowell Artist Residency and been awarded MTA Public Art Commissions. 

A Note from the Curator:

I was blown away with the strength, diversity and quality of the work submitted. It was extremely difficult to narrow down the artists and I spent a long time selecting just the right work from each artist's portfolio that would bring the collections of artists together into a cohesive show. In an open call, there are no restraints on the submissions that filter the conceptual or material ideas, so the work had an enormous variety to select from.

The show developed after spotting several patterns in content and materials from a wide range of artists. They were selected for their cohesiveness as a whole, quality and range of their broader portfolio, diversity in material and style and uniqueness of their artistic voice. The amount of “runner-ups” was astounding. There were really so many talented and exceptional artists. If your work was not selected this time, have no doubt that you still made a huge impression. Congratulations to all the new All SHE Makes directory artists!