Opening: April 18, 2-5pm
"Women's Work" inaugurates YA! with an installation honoring the women whose lives, love, and creative practices formed the ground from which Elizabeth Yochim’s work emerges.
Bringing together works by Marcia Wood, Joanna Lickert, and Julie Van Eman Yochim, the exhibition is an act of recognition across generations and moves between image, object, memory, and presence. It is an offering and an acknowledgement of who came before.
"Just across the terrace and down a few steps, beyond the dog’s pen, was the door into another world that was musty, drafty, and smelled of turpentine and oil paints. The studio door felt like the door to Narnia in the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, and when I passed through, I felt like I was entering another world. I could feel the dimensional folds like an accordion that collapsed when the easels collapsed and expanded when my mother, or especially the others opened them and began to paint. The fact that something emerged from nothing through the simple act of beginning with a blank canvas and pigments in a tube fascinated me. My mother started a group called Women’s Work and I was invited in to sit for portraits amongst a circle of female artists. I remember it as if it was yesterday feeling the light on my face, my cheeks; the sensation of being observed. It made me feel special and I liked the feeling of being with these women in this quiet act of creating."
-- excerpt from Volume I of "The Bird Chronicles" written by Elizabeth Yochim