Nine Mexican Women Fight Stereotypes in Their Printmaking (Hyperallergic Review)

March 14, 2016

Animals populate the prints on view at Sus Voces, a group exhibition curated by Maria Cristina Tavera at Highpoint Center for Printmaking, featuring nine female Mexican printmakers working in traditional techniques. Animals are used as metaphors for the female body, as elements of fantasy, as spiritual evocation, and as emblems of fear. It’s a show that flirts with female and Mexican stereotypes and tosses them upside down, that breathes political expression in a whisper, and draws the viewer into a growing discontent among women artists living in a violent world.

Read the full review: https://hyperallergic.com/283179/nine-mexican-women-fight-stereotypes-in-their-printmaking/