Opening Reception: Friday, June 13, 5-8pm
Evan Feldman
Director
efeldman@gpgallery.com
Gerald Peters Contemporary is pleased to present its first exhibition of the 2025 summer season, Material Girl: Pop Culture and the Female Gaze. Bringing together six female artists working across media, the exhibition will highlight the connections between the artists’ personal histories and social, political, and cultural realities of today.
Anchored in Pop Art, the exhibition explores how these artists use the genre’s vocabulary of familiar imagery, bold colors, and ready-made objects to examine socio-political concerns. Probing gender, sexuality, materialism, and commodification, these works offer profound personal introspection and keen societal awareness.
Nicole Cudzilo (b. 1991) is a New Mexico-based artist and educator whose work explores the intimate connection between nature and the human experience. Known for her evocative environmental self-portraits, she uses her own form as a subject and symbol, becoming both part of the natural world, and a contrast to its grandeur. By embracing the moments in-between movement and stillness, action and reflection, each photograph becomes a visual meditation, accenting the delicate tension of what it means to be human—both fragile and powerful, deeply connected to the natural world, yet inherently individual.
Drawing on Pop Art’s visual boldness and mid-century pop cultural archetypes, my work uses staged self-portraiture to explore femininity as performance and examine how female identity is shaped by desire, consumption and nature itself.
Nicole Cudzilo
Nicole Cudzilo
Petrified Forest, ed. 1/12 2019
archival pigment print
19 1/2 x 29 1/2 inches
