Helen Redman's work explores women's bodies and identities across the life span. This sampling of her figure painting, drawing and mixed media is culled from five decades of art making (from the early 1960's to the present). This exhibit embodies the personal and transformational nature of our humanity as Redman scrutinizes subject and self, emotion and cognition in ways that are both real and fanciful.
Redman's journey as a woman and an artist has been one of self-discovery and awareness. Her body of art is an evolutionary collection of images exploring what it is to be a woman from pregnancy and motherhood to maturity and cronehood.~Tess Heimbach, Curator
Celebrating the 40th Anniversary of Women's Studies at San Diego State University
Previous Exhibits:
Aging With Attitude
University of Michigan's Slusser Gallery
Ann Arbor, MI March 7th - 28th, 2008
This exhibit, part of a larger, community collaborative called , pushes our boundaries and our horizons about what it means to age. Helen Redman, as one of the national artists who has focused parts of her career on aging issues, was invited to participate in this large multi-media group exhibition.
On Our Path, Mixed media on board, 16" x 16" 2006
INSIDE OUTSIDE THE ECSTATIC BODY Micaela Amato, Helen Redman and Don Schule explore the human body and its capacity to communicate, transform and heal itself in painting, drawing and sculpture.
February 5 - March 2, 2008
Pennsylvania State University
University Park, PA 16802
October 6 - November 9, 2006 at Woman Made Gallery
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: National group exhibition juried by Helen Redman
: Mixed-media work by Helen Redman
Helen Redman conceptualized Signatures of Age with Woman Made Gallery as a means to engage both young and old in a creative dialog about aging. Together these shows reveal and explore a feminine experience barely addressed in the visual arts, and seldom seen in our society.
Helen Redman's latest installation is a provocative body of work, as riveting as it is tender. Her life-layered viewpoint is that of a woman artist who has come full circle. Through unconventional self-portraits (1994-2006), Aging Into Full Creativity investigates the individual's struggle to be at home in one's own skin, while at the same time, to be making a sustainable home on earth. Redman takes us on an intimate journey into the self, the human body, and the earth itself.
Helen Redman,Turtling Forward, 2008 mixed media on board, 16" x 22"
