Art about women by women artists. |
Hear Us! is an online visual art exhibition about women by women artists. Purchase the works below by contacting us by email. The top 4 scoring artists receive their art up on a billboard along one of the busiest highways in metro-Detroit. Detroit is known as the Motor City and the highways to-and-from Detroit are some of the most traveled in the world. Many billboards receive 75,000+ views during rush hour. This is great exposure for some very talented women artists.
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Benjamin-Miki, Michele
Momentum Sumi Ink and Pencil on Paper 30"w x 40"h $4,000 The pieces selected from my body of work elevate the female form, show her in her strength and power with grace. It also shows my process of spontaneous creative flow in the brush strokes and the beauty and power of the female form in pencil. I want people to ‘hear’ both the strength and directness in the brush and the woman’s illuminated form integrated into that flow. It is time to elevate the female form and trust the feminine aspects in us all. that is what I say with my images Momentum and Elevation for woman. |
Benjamin-Miki, Michele
Elevation Graphite and Sumi Ink on Paper 35"w x 50"h $5,500 My art is influenced by my decades of practice and teaching in Zen meditation and the martial arts including Iaido Japanese sword forms. I meditate before and during the process of creating a piece. I often start with one continuous stroke, and on reflection afterwards I either leave the piece as it is, or come back into it with figurative forms in high detail and realism. The figures are mostly woman. I champion the female form by presenting her in an empowered way. I like to illuminate my figures and evoke in the viewer strong emotion and a spiritual uplift. All my work is about overcoming, transcending, and empowerment within the human condition. Much of my work comes out of my dream space. One such dream I had fifteen years ago was about seeing the work I am doing in the present, and from this dream I have created a body of work combining my strong and immediate brushwork with fine detail realism. I am of Japanese and American heritage and my work is a blending of East and West. |
Burke, Marie Kirk
If I Had A Hammer Oil, 24"w x 30"h x 2"d $4,200 +Shipping Being a woman artist effects the way I view, experience and represent the world around me. I would like to present the viewer with an uplifting, humorous and joyful look at ordinary objects representing typical feminine images. This painting incorporates the conflicting roles women play simultaneously. The Apron symbolizes her place at home, the floral pattern is a throw back to the 60’s when women’s roles were shifting dramatically and the hammer represents the strength to construct and change the future. |
Copich, Susan
Game Changer Digital Medium Format Photography 50"w x 37.5"h x 1"d $6,000 + $50 Shipping From my series Then He Forgot My Name are studies of being a woman and the burden and hardships we carry from being victimized that the #metoo movement made so conspicuous. The movement painfully revealed just how far reaching the abuses, injustices and tolerances go, that were sustained and protected in a system set up for men in power. In addition to this revelation I am simultaneously shouting to carrying onward and find strength in our wounds to be determined. Hear us and do not forget what we have lived through, but let the stories of the past push us towards strength, bravery and power, and let us find our true authentic agency. |
Copich, Susan
Perched Digital Medium Format Photography 40"w x 30"h $4,000 + $50 Shipping The self-portrait photography series, Then He Forgot My Name, focuses the camera inward on the solitary, interior experience of the individual woman. Against a backdrop of peeling paint and broken glass, the stage is set for stories of womanhood, replete with trials, wounds, strengths, tolerances and impossible tasks; drawing upon revelations of what seems an endless narrative of: neglected boundaries, inequalities, injustices, violence and the fallout that ensues. The lens focuses on female protagonists at times vulnerable and at others invincible. All illuminating a psychological landscape through the pain of living, the continuum of decay and the struggle for change. |
Crossan, Linda
Drawn Into Being Ceramics, 9" x 10" x 7" $350 / SOLD I bring my passion that is feminine in nature to everything I create. I strive to create art that speaks to the viewer where they are. My work makes reference to the forms and tools women have used since the beginning of humans on the earth. Clay is an ancient medium and was used to create vessels that women used to care for their families. Creating abstracted forms that reference these early forms makes my work uniquely feminine and modern. |
Crossan, Linda
Keen Is the Frost Ceramics, 9.75" x 6" x 4" $300 The development of my work has been influenced by the natural world and my years of design and illustration in the graphics community. As a designer, illustrator, I learned how to research and immerse myself in a subject so that the work I produced felt organic and natural to who I am. Years spent painting, drawing, and creating art in other mediums have now culminated in a unique artistic expression that is my pottery. I create hand built work and use a potters wheel. I came back to clay about 5 years ago and I found it's tactile nature captured my attention like no other medium. The ability to explore shape, texture and surface is so varied and exciting I am driven to continue to explore it. Built in to the ceramic process is a moment in which an artist must let go and trust the process knowing that there will be surprises at the finale. I love the unexpected and the space I have to make for the clay to become what it wants to be not always what I think it should be. |
Dzikiewicz, Julia
Me Too Mixed-Media Painting 60"w x 60"h x 2"d $19,000 +Installation In late 2017, the Me Too movement began with the publication of articles describing sexual assaults committed by Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein. Soon stories about other major figures in the entertainment and other industries appeared as women spoke out about their experiences of harassment and assault. The painting depicts a victim in a sea surrounded by sharks and other creatures. But there is hope: other women, depicted as angels and surrounded by flowers and lights, bring help as they offer the victim a life preserver. This history has inspired a large series of work which can be seen at https://gallerydz.com/ |
Dzikiewicz, Julia
Saxon the Suffrage Cat Mixed-Media Painting 60"w x 60"h x 2"d $24,500 + Installation This painting tells the tale of two women and their cat. 1916, in order to publicize the movement to give women the vote, Nell Richardson and Alice Burke drove across the US in a two-seater car nicknamed the Golden Flyer. Stopping to speak in states from Maryland to California, the women were accompanied only by Saxon, a black kitten that they adopted on route. |
Evans, Christine
In Florescence Ceramic, 23" x 11" x 9" $4,000 I seek to convey the beauty of humanity’s emotional response to Nature through my work. Sculpting the human figure allows me to express particular qualities of feeling in very direct ways. People are adept at reading faces for emotional content and my sculptures are part of that conversation. When I work on a face, I experience a strong attachment to it as it comes into being. I love the process of teasing out features, a dab of clay at a time. This happens every time, with each face I create. This passion for the sculpting process drives my practice and lays the foundation for endless possibilities." Christine is represented by Shidoni Gallery in Tesuque, New Mexico. She is a ceramic figure sculptor and teacher working in Albuquerque, New Mexico. She received a BAFA with an emphasis in ceramics from the University of New Mexico in 2002. Christine was awarded a six month residency in 2019 at the North Carolina Pottery Center in Seagrove, NC. |
Evans, Christine
Natura Guarda Ceramic, 20" x 11" x 6.5" $3,200 I directly address the subject of feminine self-worth in my work. My sculptures are created to speak to the feminine in everyone, not just women. It is about honoring feminine energy in all its forms, especially as related to the aspects of Nature. We are a part of Nature, and our division and separation from it is often the cause of our discontent. The fecundity, beauty and abundance of the natural world is reflected in the feminine character. Coming into alignment with that spirit returns our greatest resource to us - our wild origins, our mother Earth, our true natures. Being a woman artist is the best thing that has ever happened to me. It has allowed me to express my deep, inner truth like nothing else could. Being a woman allows me to delve into emotional and psychological realities that bring forth endless topics to use as artistic fodder. I use the female form, the female visage, to express these realities in my ceramic figure sculptures. I explore the beauty and strength of the feminine spirit through my work. Nature, as representing the “wild woman”, is integral to my creative explorations. I wish my work to be viewed as a strong exclamation of female power and worth. Our connection with the Earth is our most potent asset. My work celebrates this power and shows the joy and beauty that can arise when Femininity and Nature are honored and loved. This is my gift to the art world. |
Grady, Kandy
Mother Mixed-Media, 24" x 12" x 1" $550 I would like to first state how I would like to affect the world as a woman artist of color. I would like to world to recognize that being an artist has value, and being a woman artist of color has great value. The worth lies in the unheard stories we have shouted with our paint bushes, dance, and written words. Listen to us. We have gone from serving at the table to the head of the table. That journey has artistic patterns woven though every step. Being a women artist you can indeed encounter a lot of dismissive behavior. People can treat you like your art is a hobby and not a career choice. Some people, even women, ask you if you make money selling your art. Sometime I feel they would not ask a man. Once I had a man tell me I need to paint more white people to appeal to the masses. I have people ask why I charge so much for my work, relating back to people thinking I do art as a hobby. I grew up in a small, picturesque, town in Michigan called Dowagiac. When I was little, you could find me drawing or making crafts in my room. My mother encourage my art because she is a creative herself. My two younger brothers also excelled in art. My poor father couldn't draw a stick man, but he had lots of encouragement for the rest of us. In our home art and expression was as natural as breathing. I've always been fascinated with the stories people's faces tell. Although everyone has their own look, I always find something beautiful in every face. I paint faces animated with bright colors, collage paper I print, and texture to spice it all up. With my art I want to tell the story of those faces I see, stories that convey joy of life, pain behind the smile and inclusion of all people. |
Hagenhofer, Faith
Our Shared Walk Fiber, 26" x 39" $900 I’m an artist and farmer with linked practices, in that I am a shepherd of 20 Gotland sheep. I use the sheep wool, in my 2d & 3d work for over 15 years. I also grow dye plants, used for pigments in printmaking ink & for dying wool, yarn & fabric. As a shepherd who wants high quality art supplies, my first devotion is to growing excellent pasture. I began this integrated practice as a felt maker, & now work in other textile practices as well. The rural setting of my work life is central & generative to the artworks I make. Being intimately associated with land invites me to visually investigate myriad subjects. Knowing that I’m stewarding traditional tribal lands has afforded me a long-time view & added to what informs my work. Finally, I’ve gained a basis for regarding people in the world who find themselves in transit, diaspora, migration. |
Hart, Naomi
All My Tomorrows Mixed-Media, 24" x 48" x 2" $3,732 As an artist, I am a storyteller and a time traveler. A survivor of addiction and domestic violence, I consciously manage my mental health by taking refuge in the natural world, the wellspring of my self-expression. I portray an unwavering belief in magic despite the stigmas and challenges of healing and recovery. I tell my story—of being human and fragile in a chaotic and troubling world. The telling is of hope, of espousing a child-like wonder for the world around me through which I seek to find truth, identity and belonging. The natural world provides insight and support to my human struggles. I use personal experience and storytelling traditions to create my own rich, visual symbolism born of my love for the outdoors. Birds and animals are depicted as one with humans, providing empathy, council and access to the divine. I explore a fascination for placement and convergence through surrealism and seek the essential transformative quality found within such intersections. |
Hart, Naomi
An Ageless Migration Mixed-Media, 20" x 10" x 2" $600 I believe being a woman gives me the ability to heal and to look inward with compassion toward self. I believe being a woman gives me empathy to the voices of the land, the waters and creatures that live along side us. My hope is that as I develop my artwork I gain further insight and healing and that as others view my work they might find the same. I seek to draw people into a greater understanding of themselves and their connection to the world around them. I want viewers to find themselves within my work, for my artwork to articulate some of their story as I unfold mine. |
Isserow, Jinny
Orchard Beach, NY Mixed-Media, 24" x 24" x 1" $720 Being a woman and an artist is everything to me. Being a woman forms and informs my perspective and response to the world around me. From my past, I use my art to help make sense of the lives of my mother and my my grandmother. And in the present, womanhood and motherhood is the lens through which I view the world. When I paint a political piece about our immigration crisis - it is from the perspective of a mother. When I paint a police brutality piece - it is from the perspective of a mother. At my current age, 64, I focus much of my my work on the process of aging. I most love depicting older women, portraying bodies that proudly display the lines of our lives lived, and a beauty that comes form within. |
Jacobs-Carnahan, Eve
Knit Democracy Together Fiber, 41" x 68" x 33" NFS I use the innocuous qualities of knitted yarn to start conversations. Encountering knitting in artwork is surprising, so it prompts the viewer to look more closely. This sculpture represents an ideal image of democracy where everyone in society is represented in government. Assembled from blocks knitted by participants in my Knit Democracy Together knitting circles, the knitted state capitol embodies the aspirations of individuals from many parts of the community. The colors are varied and the textures range from plain to complex, just like people. Their diversity attests to the broad community input necessary for a strong democracy. Hands holding knitting needles work to complete the structure. With yarn wound around their fingers and stitches on their needles, the work is ongoing. The humble tools used for constructing this legislative building reinforce the idea that ordinary people taking small actions can accomplish great things. |
Kahlon, Sonia
Seen Photography, 12" x 12" $450 This work is part of a series of self portraits set mostly in the rural surroundings of Bucks County Pennsylvania. I explore our connection with the natural environment. We are temporary guests of nature which includes components that have been around for millennia. A complex ecosystem that breathes, decays, feeds and communicates through a series of elaborate signals. The goal of the ecosystem is to achieve balance and harmony between all of its inhabitants. My intention is to create images where the subject relates to their landscape in a surprising and whimsical way. In the context of this relationship I am striving to examine some of my personal struggles and realizations. |
Magwood, Kenish
You Are The Best Thing Oil and Gold Leaf on Canvas, 40" x 30" x 1" $2,000 As a young, black woman in America, I am in a constant state of double consciousness; painfully aware of what it's like to feel like you’re on the outskirts of the world. My work highlights this in a personal way. My aesthetic highlights, bold, vibrant, and stylistic pieces. My pieces are stylistic and intentional in terms of debunking stereotypes and combating injustice and bigotry. All of this is done by celebrating unity and diversity by showing minorities in the most regal of ways. It is my prayer that we all see ourselves extrinsically in order to evolve and see ourselves through the eyes of others. There is beauty in all types of people and cultures. The inacceptance of this in America is socially detrimental to growth. We need to change the narrative. I aim to celebrate cultural beauty and combat anything and everything that challenges it. My work is meant to ignite open conversation, promote acceptance, warrant understanding and prompt self-reflection for all. |
Meyerhoff, Shelby
Zoomorphic #31 (Great Horned Owl) Photography (Archival Pigment Print), 21.3" x 16" Ed. 1/10+2AP's, inclusive of multiple sizes $700 Framed / $275 Unframed {+ Shipping} My artistic process is in part a reaction to the history of portraiture of women. Women’s bodies have been treated in fine art and advertising as objects onto which different meanings and motives are projected. By working as model, painter, and photographer, I challenge these uses of the female body, taking artistic control of how I am presented. There is intense social pressure on women to bring our bodies into alignment with traditional beauty standards. I instead use body paint and photography to creatively transform myself, and to communicate my own aesthetic and intellectual interests. To make the photographs in my Zoomorphics series, I start by painting on my own body, and transform myself into a creature inspired by the natural world. Then I set my camera on the tripod and pose. The emotions of this new being well up inside me, and I move in unexpected ways. I am expansive, and I do not constrain myself. In ordinary life, I find it harder to be playful with my appearance. As a woman, I am acutely aware of the meanings projected onto my body. But the creatures that I become transcend social constructs. They are beyond gender, and when I inhabit them, I am free. |
Nguyen, Thu
A Homeless Lady Oil & 24kt Gold Leaf on Panel 20" x 16" x 1 $2,500 I am a 63 year old Vietnamese immigrant woman artist. I am inspired by ancient Chinese paintings and European iconography paintings combined with my love of portrait paintings to create this body of work. My work has social commentary. |
Okoro, Cary
What Lies Beneath Digital, 10.25" x 7.75" $175 If you are a woman living in a patriarchal culture—one that simultaneously reveres and reviles you, admires and derides you—how can you be OK? As a woman artist in an often misogynistic culture, my work tries to reflect the sense of confusion and fragmentation that growing up female in this country can create. Using a multi-disciplinary approach, I explore themes of memory, trauma, identity and belonging. I often distort my compositions, introducing elements of abstraction and chaos. This disruption of traditional modes of image-making and story-telling is intended to question dominant narratives-—about beauty and worth, power and belonging, wellness and wholeness—and encourage viewers to consider alternative perspectives. I have experienced harassment, trauma and abuse because of my gender. This is not to mention the loss of opportunities, the demeaning situations and the "invisibility" that often goes with being a women artist and filmmaker in male dominated fields. Things are changing and I want to be part of that change in both my Art practice and my advocacy. Lifting up other women artists as well as artists of color is a top priority. When viewers are confronted with my work, I want them to see the world through a different lens, to experience a "de-centering" where their previous assumptions fall away, and then a "re-centering" where they can be more open to empathizing with the sense of pain or loss or joy that is being expressed. "What Lies Beneath" is a digital work that deal with sexual trauma and its aftermath. In "What Lies Beneath," a sole figure stands atop layers of stratified earth (buried traumatic memories), her apron strings come undone and partially forming an unstable limb, threatening to de-stabilize her. |
Schindler, Gypsy
Matice Oil & Acrylic on Canvas, 36" x 18" $3,000 / SOLD The history of painting, as a historically male dominated genre, supersedes the definition of painter, not to mention artist in general. So my gender always has been a factor, within my upbringing, education and professional career. All fine art and commercial art communities are defined within the constructs of the imposed gender binary. It is a hurdle that a woman must clear at every meeting and opportunity. Particularly if one does not fit the historical western male gaze definition of what a woman is supposed to look or act like. I don't fit that definition. So merely by being present and possessing all the skills and qualifications of my male or otherwise counterparts has already affected the art world. I hope to continue to blur the gender binary, increase awareness of fluidity within identity and promote the equality of value of "feminine" characteristics as strengths to the human condition, no matter how an individual chooses to identify. The structure of the gender binary system has historically created bias of value. Our cultures definition of aesthetics and value is very much based on image. So portraiture, as an ever evolving image, is imperative and pivotal to the process of changing that bias through a broad and thorough visual representation of all the possible definitions of woman. My work directly addresses both the need for a continuation of portraiture and the evolution and fluidity of identity. Within the patriarchal history, the woman, as well as the practice of oppression, was the root of the concept of other, by comparison. So, the more images I can make that associate valued aesthetics with the concept of "other", the more the constructs of shame and inclusion will be broken down. Over time, accumulation creates inclusion, majority shifts. Fluidity of identity as a concept is a constant journey as an artist. Paradoxically, it is the root that sustains my interest in portraiture. The societal concept of identity is also continually in flux, as the definitions of gender, race, age, geography, culture and socioeconomic status are mixed, blurred, inverted and dismantled. One of the most imperative functions of portraiture is to increase our capacity for understanding and empathy. It allows us to search through another’s face longer than would be normally, socially acceptable. An act which begins the conversation we have with ourselves about our own assumptions and biases. This conversation holds the potential for emotional awareness and self-directed evolution. Through the interpretation of the human form and individual likeness, I am interested in participating in the dissection of the externally determined identity and increasing the awareness of the complex, internally determined one. |
Smith, Dawn
Tea Pity Party Oil on Wood Panel, 14" x 11" x 1" 11" x 14" Giclee Prints Available $100 +Shipping Not seeing many women represented in art history always left me feeling like women were never seen or heard. Then while I watch many of my male peers be selected to do solo shows and receive invites and representation I believe I’ve been over looked. I want to show younger women artists that they can achieve success as an artist. I want them to see someone just like them represented in the history of contemporary art. My brand of pop surrealism is rooted in the exploitation of femininity as distorted by popular modern concepts of what it is. My view is influenced by social media and bastardized by consumerism. A twisted message comes though the symbolism of imagery chosen to compose every piece. I present a sickeningly cute and strange pageantry of self-indulgent eye candy for your examination and viewing pleasure. All this, so that we can view those parts of our deeper psyche and ask what our vanity and our ego is about. |
Shood, Shana
Three Women Oil on Canvas, 40" x 30" x 2" $8,000 My art revolves around women whose lives and their stories would never get a platform if not through art. Growing up in India, I️ often saw that women’s narrative was either never allowed to come to the forefront or when shared, it was controlled and manipulated by men. Through my art, I️ simply try to portray those women’s stories whom I️ have met in my journey of life so far. This specific painting is an abstraction of the stereotypical image of three Indian women who may look traditional as defined by the patriarchal society, however still inviting the viewers’ imagination to consider them broader than what they appear to be. Though conservatively dressed, they may be ultra modern in their life choices and that they should be free to define their journeys. |
Teste, Laura
Grounded Bronze with Granite Base, 14" x 4" x 3" $2,000 My figurative bronzes reflect the moment where the woman takes initiative. Each figure has a narrative with the central theme of autonomy. Confidence and triumph radiate from the silhouette. Vim and vigor positively glow. She is setting the world on fire as "The Graduate". The world is big, busy, fragmented. My sculptures are intimate, personal, focused. On the surface my art captures a beautiful moment - a tilt of the head, a lift of a finger, a pull of fine fabric. Deep in the foundation, I pursue inner narratives of strength and resilience. I am driven to harness the intensity and insights of women. I want to create moments where you, the audience, recognize a paragraph from your own history. My art highlights singular figures who bathe in quiet confidence or spirited self-reliance. I capture lithesome limb figures in mid-swirl with a bloom of fabric or a quiet gesture. My art pays tribute to several pillars of self-reliance. Trust yourself Embrace nonconformity Cut new paths Define your principles Welcome independence A sense of love, elation, and accomplishment is my motivation. We embrace optimism. We brandish joy. We are living. |
Vrijmoet, Kate
What You Get Is To Be Changed, More and More by Each Glisten Oil on Canvas, 80" x 125" x 3" $9,500 In the Non-ordinary Reality paintings I use the tools of classical painting to provoke unusual emotions in my audience. Great painting can be engulfing and involving. I don’t settle for less than an extremely high-impact experience for the viewer. The Non-ordinary Reality paintings are large scale figurative paintings designed to cause a physical response for the viewer. From an under-water-to-surface perspective that locates the viewer as the subject, this work provokes auditory and haptic responses to visual stimulai. The mechanisms at work that create this experience are the moderation of the haptic sense in the visual cortex and our mirror neurons for sound in the premotor cortex. We are living in an anxious era, one to which artists respond through their work even though they may work to escape it. The central idea of my paintings is to give voice to the unscreamed scream, to what has been silent and demands to be heard -- so that my point of departure is one highly charged with anxiety but also with the promise of breaking through. The scream seems hallowed, sacred somehow and violent, excessively so. It is cloaked by society and everyday life. Water is a metaphor, both for keeping afloat and for a tide of change. The way that water alters gesture, conferring ambiguity and disguise but ultimately revealing all, suggests the necessity of opening our eyes under water, learning to see through moving water. Warren Buffet remarked that when the tide goes out, we find out who has been swimming naked. Amid fear and loss and disorientation, we are signaling wildly; this could be a time for making new connections and building new strengths. |