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an exhibition by FeministFuturist
Exhibition Dates: Friday, September 9 - Sunday, October 16, 2022
Gallery Hours: Fridays - Sundays, 12pm-6pm
Artist Panel: “The Feminist Future of Art” (virtual event), Tuesday, October 11, 7pm-8:30pm

Boston Cyberarts is excited to open the fall season with CURRENCY, an exhibition by the artist collective FeministFuturist on view in the gallery from Friday September 9 - Sunday October 16, 2022. This exhibition is created, curated and presented by the collective and encompasses both physical and virtual work. CURRENCY’s themes include the concept of monuments (their permanence or impermanence in physical or digital realms); Feminism in digital platforms; and ways in which a Feminist perspective can heal Earth from a male-dominated, capitalist-technological hegemony.

In their own words, the FeministFuturist art collective’s founding purpose is the following: “We call on fellow artists to foment cultural change by creating visionary art. We seek to evolve culture creatively, equitably, with sustainable technologies, and with deep respect for the ecological systems of planet Earth. Feminist Futurism offers visions of coexistence, healing, and community with all living things.”

There will be an artist panel - “The Feminist Future of Art” - on Tuesday, October 11th at 7pm. For additional details please visit the event page here.

featured artists

Freedom Baird, Christina Balch, Nancy Hayes, Marjorie Kaye, AK Liesenfeld, Karen Meninno and Carolyn Wirth

ABOUT THE artists

Freedom Baird is a multi-disciplinary artist exploring the interconnection between humans and nature. Her work addresses systems and society, and often includes performance and viewer participation. She holds master's degrees from the Media Lab at MIT and the Massachusetts College of Art and Design, and has exhibited recently at the Center for Maine Contemporary Art and the Fuller Craft Museum.

Christina Balch (she/her) is a multi-disciplinary artist, producer, and technologist. Her work explores perceptions of self through digital technology and data. 

Nancy Hayes was a ceramic sculptor before becoming a painter who develops forms and visual landscapes built from her imagination. Hayes creates elaborate compositions using color, line, pattern, and shape, building characters with their own texture and biology. She lives and works in South Dartmouth, MA

Marjorie Kaye is a visual artist currently based in North Adams in the Berkshires. Although primarily a painter working with gouache, she has also explored her wild, unruly, yet precise compositions in wood as well. She is the Director of Galatea Fine Art in Boston’s SoWA Art and Design District in addition to her art practice, and has had extensive exhibitions and has been awarded grants from the Provincetown Art Museum and the Massachusetts Cultural Council.

Anna Katharina (AK) Liesenfeld is a fashion designer and virtual reality concept artist. She has worked with Boston Fashion Week, the Peabody Essex Museum, and the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, creating garments and accessories exploring identity in fashion. AK will be showing a salon made entirely using VR. With this piece, she hopes to inspire the audience to join her in the conversation around the legacy of pioneering female educator Helen Temple Cooke.

Karen Meninno is a mixed media sculptor, painter, and fashion designer whose work spans many realms of futuristic visions. Currently, Meninno investigates the peculiarities of the digital (machine-based) and the analog (human or organic) in the digital spaces we inhabit, and the effects of interactions between them.

Carolyn Wirth, a Boston-area sculptor and occasional installation artist, uses the figure to describe people and landscapes historically unrepresented due to gender bias. Her practice inhabits the experiences of feminist-defined representation; she has been artist-in-residence at several regional museums and exhibits in numerous New England galleries.