On View: January 11 through Mid April 2020
Gallery Hours: Mon-Fri 9-5:30pm and Saturdays 10-4pm
Opening Reception: Saturday, January 25 from 5:00pm to 7:00pm
CANCELED – Artist Talk: Saturday, March 14 from 4:00pm to 6:00pm
San Diego — Seven San Diego Female Artists – 6 photographers, and 1 painter, all actively exhibiting artists, met each other through attending local art events and organically formed a bond fueled by their artistic creativity and dedication to the arts. The collective hosts monthly critiques to share work and ideas. The members give and receive feedback, as they prepare for exhibitions, conferences, projects, and reviews. The exhibition, titled after the name of the collective, STRONG STRONG WOMEN, will be the inaugural exhibition since the formation of the collective.
The artists include:
Amanda Dahlgren, Morgan DeLuna, Jodie Hulden, Lamia Khorshid, Allison Lindblom, Kris Moore, and Louise Russell.
What’s behind the name? To the artists in the collective, Strong Strong Women > (are greater than) Pictures.
“Artists inspire artists. That’s why we form art groups, but it is often true that men talk more than they listen and women listen more than they talk. So, we formed Strong Strong Women in order to be heard and to support strong, strong women.” – Kris Hodson Moore, Photographer, Collective Founder, and Member
“We are artists that engage life – personal, social, ecological, and political ideas. We’re inclusive of people and ideas. We support. We act. We tell stories. We’re here.” – Louise Russell, Photographer, Collective Member
“Strong Strong Women was started by the strongest strong woman I know (Kris Hodson Moore), who invited us into her home to collaborate, support, challenge, and inspire each other. We are each powerful and capable in our own right, but together we are Strong Strong Women.” – Amanda Dahlgren, Photographer, Collective Member
“The group reinforces that women are strong but together we are even stronger. We come together to share and support each other as artists and as women in a field that can be difficult for us to thrive in. It is also a reminder to others that lifting each other up versus vying against one another is how we as women succeed and move forward.” – Morgan DeLuna, Photographer, Collective Member
“I feel that being an artist is the deepest part of my humanity, regardless of gender. Our strength as a group lies in doing what is the most meaningful to us, each as a human being. In our communion together, we inspire and celebrate each other and in that we are strong.” – Jodie Hulden, Photographer, Collective Member
Image Credit: ©2018 Morgan DeLuna
#wokeuplikethis, on Instagram via @ava.cast
As a conceptual photographic artist, Morgan DeLuna’s work explores topics around identity and appearance. Her series #instagrids-#wokeuplikethis, on Instagram via @ava.cast, looks at the xennial experience of life in the pocket between pre and post social media era. This work exposes the allure, effort, pressure, and reward behind that one perfect selfie.
Image Credit: ©2018 Jodie Hulden
The Blue Room, from the Left Behind Series
In the images from Left Behind, Jodie Hulden takes a poignant look into the past and explores our need for comfort and beauty as well as the reality of impermanence and change. This is a series of award-winning images of still-lifes and interiors from Bodie, CA – an abandoned gold-rush town located the high desert east of the Sierras.
Image Credit: ©2019 Lamia Khorshid
Altar at Via San Gregorio Armeno After Dark, from the Sacred Altars Series (Serie Edicole Sacre)
In the Sacred Altars Series (Serie Edicole Sacre), Lamia Khorshid photographs the religious altars in Naples, Italy that are built by the people that live in the community and integrated into the existing exterior walls of the city. The work explores how the Catholic country of Italy integrates religious iconography in public and private spheres. The representations of the street “edicole” become a social document with reference to both history and the contemporary, the sacred and the secular, the public and the private, the personal and the universal, unfolding through manifestations of religious ritual amidst urban growth.
Image Credit: ©2017 Allison Lindblom
Allison Lindblom is an artist who creates abstract mixed media works on canvas and paper. Her work explores the interaction of color and shape on a surface. She will present a series of paintings on paper from 2014-2019 in which richly hued shapes converge in the picture plane in idiosyncratic compositions.
Image Credit: ©2018 Kris Hodson Moore
Slippery Slope, from the House Divided Series, On Instagram @housedividedphotos
House Divided is Kris Hodson Moore’s comment on Donald Trump’s America. The photographs are meant to be seen as political cartoons, a little bit funny, but the unsettling truth is that everything he tells us is a lie. And half the country believes him.
Image Credit: ©2018 Louise Russell
CP71, from A Place to Land series
In A Place to Land a group travels to the cosmos searching for somewhere to build a community of justice in this time of ecological collapse and injustice. Louise Russell creates images of these fictional places. Some travelers may decide there is no Planet B and that it’s here on earth that we have to re-imagine and create a sustainable and just way of living. Others may choose to stay and create a home in a new land.