Women to
Look Up To: Honoring the Feminist Saints
From left to right: The Crowning by Sara Schnelle, Song of Songs by April Younglove, Lydia by April Younglove, Eve’s Sorrows by Sara Schnelle
Women to Look Up To: Honoring
the Feminist Saints is a joint show
featuring paintings by Sara Schnelle and April Younglove. Both Sara Schnelle and April Younglove are
alumni of Marylhurst University. Women
to Look Up To features their new work in acrylic and gold leaf with altars. The
paintings draw on the traditions of heroic painting, iconography, and feminist
paintings from the 1970s.
The artists chose to
identify these Biblical women as feminist saints because feminists can admire
them. Each woman is depicted as confronting
her experience of being a woman with dignity and determination.
Christian women are often
encouraged to emulate women from the Bible.
Women to Look Up To seeks to illuminate areas within the lives of
Biblical women that are not typically depicted in art or considered important
by those who would have women emulate them.
This exhibit explores women’s diverse achievements and experiences in
both public and private life. These
experiences – birth, love, work, and death -- are linked to the experiences of
contemporary women with altars that display everyday items, mementos, and
greeting cards from our time. While all
of these women filter their experiences through the experiences of men (it is
after all Jesus’ birth, Solomon’s book, Paul’s church and Abel’s death), their
perspectives are rich with personal achievement and private emotion.
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to read a newspaper article about this show.
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Photo of Sara and April from the Clackamas Review.
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