for immediate release
AWAKEN: the female voice
April 21st – June 27th Plummer Park, West Hollywood
Curated by Brooke Mason
This is a female artist only exhibit opening April 21st and running through June 27th at Plummer Park in West Hollywood. The opening reception is April 21st 6-8pm.
When a girl is young she doesn’t understand boundaries or social parameters put on her. She is running free. Her rude awakening begins somewhere between the ages of 10 and 15 years. She starts to sense these restrictions; she questions her role in her environment. She chooses either to fight them and deal continuously with conflict or to conform to them, to comply, an easier route… until she is old enough to rebel against them seriously. As artists we strive to highlight these struggles.
This exhibit looks at the transformation of a female over the first half of her life. Some of the artworks highlight freedom of expression as a child with no restraint, a sense of innocence and liberty, while other works delve into adulthood and the challenges of prescribed paradigms. All the artists in this exhibit choose, as artists and as women, to inspire others through their work.
Artists in the exhibit include: Fatemeh Burnes, Lola Del Fresno, Diane Holland, Julienne Johnson, Camella DaEun Kim, Feng Ling, Nicole Landau, Brooke Mason, Mei Xian Qiu.
The exhibit is curated by Brooke Mason, an Australian-born fine art and celebrity photographer capturing images for over 15 years. Originally based in New York City, currently her studio is in West Hollywood with her work featured on the covers and editorial pages of fashion and lifestyle magazines worldwide. Within the past year Mason has had six fine-art exhibits, gaining Art Week LA’s attention with “Pick of the Week” for her solo exhibit “La Haute Main” at Bergamot Station. She won first place from Art Slant’s International Photography competition for “Vanquish” in 2015. She is a feminist and passionate about highlighting women artists.
Presented with the support of the City of West Hollywood through WeHo Arts. For more info on WeHo Arts programming please visit www.weho.org/arts