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Editing to add — What is a contemporary Caribbean Woman? <— read more here

“However, in more recent times, the possibility arises that there could be a new image of the Caribbean Woman brewing and coming through in full force through our emerging artists, who are finding new waves to overlay the foundation for a new iconography in a less aggressive manner. By seemingly omitting interaction with earlier stereotypes, they are envisioning a clean slate of representation.

Take for example the 2011 piece by Brianna McCarthy (b.1984) entitled Jump Out Yourself. There is no angst of frustration at her predicament of being a female artist in the region. The collage piece could be seen as an exploration of her identity as a woman and the roles associated with it, and the complexities of sieving through those roles to find her personal purpose.”

Mary Beth Edelson, Loving Justice (Gena Rowlands), 1983–93; silk screen, transfer, oil paint gesso, acrylic paint, pencil, watercolor, gauche, ink, fringe and fabric; 12 x 10 inches

TM Sisters
IDEALTONIGHT
2009
Mixed media collage, ink, photograh, electro luminescent wire on paper
  8 x 10 inches

Agathe Snow, Untitled (Yes Repeat Pattern), 2009, Mixed media collage, Dimensions variable

Lisa Jonasson

Nancy Grossman
Collage Pastel #11, 1976
collage and pastel on paper
26” x 20”

Ophelia Chong
“Leda”
Collage

“Leda and the Swan is a motif from Greek mythology, in which Zeus came to Leda in the form of a swan. According to later Greek mythology, Leda bore Helen and Polydeuces, children of Zeus while at the same time bearing Castor and Clytemnestra, children of her husband Tyndareus, the King of Sparta. That is one hot looking Swan.”

Lois Mailou Jones

Challenge—America, 1964
Photomechanical reproduction, acrylic, and paper on canvas

Julie Evans
Collage - water-based media on mylar

Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, “I See Red Series: What’s Happening”, 1992, Mixed Media Collage with Watercolor, Oil, Charcoal on Hand-Made Paper, 44.75” x 32.75”