It is those who write the history books who control how our time on this earth will be remembered. If there is no diversity among the writers, only one story will be written. It is important to arm those who are suppressed with their own pens, so that their narration is not lost, or overcome. The under-representation of the female perspective, accompanied by the female minority perspective cripples the arts. For the benefit of all, all must advocate for change.

Art is a gentleman’s club. If you doubt it, open a book or step inside of a gallery. Female artists are dwarfed by the idolization of the great masters, the ogglers of the female form, and the hyper masculinity of celebrity artists. Another side of the narrative has been cleaved. A voice that embodies over half of a species has been stifled, lampooned, and oftentimes ignored. Within this exhibition a comparison can be made. Can an onlooker measure the differences between how females are depicted within the works of great male artists, versus how female artists support their own conceptions? Analyze to what extent if any does an artist’s womanhood effect the work.

In a wide variety of movements in time, subject maters, style and materials, women artists stitch a threaded timeline that supports the advancements of the future. A partnership among women and men must be struck so that we may analyze the differences between how a gender is depicted, and how a gender can be given the freedom to express. Equality can not be achieved by the efforts of half of its beneficiaries.