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"Femme Focus"
Angela Gram (US), Anne Herrero (US), Emilia Nurmivaara (FI), Rebecca Orcutt (US), Jingyi Wang (CN)

Challenging the restriction of women’s freedom in America, Anne Herrero paints an unyielding, fully nude liberated female, bearing arms in a Midwestern landscape of muted tones. A force to be reckoned with, the woman depicted is her friend Lissa, who routinely hunts naked on her property in Missouri. As an act of freedom and rebellion, Herrero paints women who take fate into their own hands, addressing the roles that women have taken on and inhabited over time. These works …