Saturday, February 11, 6-9pm
Show runs through April 14

“Breaking in Two” is the first comprehensive exhibition of work by women artists who are mothers in which the work itself integrates the maternal experience, the relationship to the body, the child, the family, and the society at large.

Part of Pacific Standard Time, the enormous survey of the emergence of Los Angeles as an international art capital, 1945-1980, the exhibition will feature a multi-cultural group of four generations of nationally and internationally recognized artist-mothers who represent the multi-faceted and changing realities of motherhood.

It includes painting, drawing, sculpture, collage and assemblage, installation, photography, film/video, poetry/writing and performance. Curator Bruria Finkel, herself an artist, asserts that “the subject of motherhood was taboo in the art world in the 70′s; women artists were advised not to disclose their motherhood status for it might interfere with their ability to progress in the art world.”

ARENA 1, A project of Santa Monica Art Studios, 3026 Airport Ave.
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