Amy Chaiklin says “I am a woman artist, painting empowering images of women from the female gaze.” She explores femininity with evocative images of mythical and contemporary goddesses. Her current series of present-day goddesses portraits started in 2017 titled “Cultured Pearls Portraits.” Together this group of 150 portraits create a […]
Gaze
Time and Reflection: Behind Her Gaze
Heritage-mapping attracts the broad and slim, the recognized and mysterious previous to the present. In the course of my residency at the Aminah Robinson residence, I examined the impulses behind my prose poem “Blood on a Blackberry” and identified a kinship with the textile artist and writer who produced her […]