Amy Laskin
Heidi Lanino
Julia Rivera
Marina Font
Patricia Schnall Gutierrez
Sofia Balút Páez
Veronica Pasman

At the heart of a female artist, there is one thing beyond their work that stands out.  Each cultivates their work as artists do, throughout their lifespan, but also happen to be women. This translates to also being a daughter, a sister, a girlfriend, maybe a wife, a mother, or even a grandmother. All these rites of passage they have walked through to get where they are today. These experiences, almost certainly, determine, how they navigate this earth, how they relate and care for others, how they conduct themselves and how they express love.

As artists their gift to the world is essentially to share with us how it has been for them so far. In the language, they speak best, with a vernacular expressed using the tools given to them at birth: their hands, feet, shoulders, knees, and toes; taking up pieces of cloth, yarn, charcoal, paint, paper, scissors, and a rock steady determination to fulfill their dreams, they dispel angst and gather bits and pieces of their soul to share with all who venture to look.

The work creates a shared narrative, a herstory, if you will, with all women on this planet and enriches all the other roles at play in a lifetime. Women appreciate each other; and support while nurturing one another to enable caring for everyone and all else.

What is witnessed in their work, is an experience of this world that is uniquely female. There is something that can be found in each of their oeuvre that is a peaceful resilience, a loving out loud, a silent certitude that what they do is a gift they give themselves.

And by gifting themselves with the work they do, as artists, they have gifted all of us but a glimpse of the freedom and spirit of creation that they experience along their journey as artists.