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.
Using figuration, vivid colors, and symbolism, my paintings use humor and abrupt juxtapositions of female bodies and objects to reexamine societal ideas regarding women and illuminate today’s world through the female gaze, psychology, and experience. In my work, women are as fulfilled, deep and complex as their male counterparts and play important and powerful roles in all facets of society.
