Wild Cure, Slip Gallery, Seattle February 2024
Wild Cure is an exhibit featuring 10 artists whose perspective on the natural world informs their work and purposefully inspires transformation, healing, and connection.
Because we’ve been raised in a culture that has idealized the individual as a world unto themselves, we have been torn from our relationship with the earth and all of its many supports. We are profoundly disconnected. This has kept us from the great wisdom of nature, and all of its teachings because the earth is seen as something to be used and conquered instead of communed with and supported by.
Curated by Tara Flores and Esther Loopstra
Sorry Not Sorry, Slide Gallery, Seattle September 2023
Sorry Not Sorry is a group exhibition that features female-identifying and non-binary artists. We take the years of pressure, questioning and judgment that the male gaze has imposed on us and melt it away, so that we are left with complete freedom to define our sensual and sexual wants and needs.
As the curators and fellow participants in this exhibition, we see Sorry Not Sorry as a celebration of female-identifying and non-binary people having agency over their lives and bodies and being unapologetic about bringing our power and desires completely to light. Here, we are celebrating ourselves instead of censoring. We deserve the right not to give in to what we are “supposed” to be but to rather decide for ourselves.
Curated by Shirene Rafie and Esther Loopstra
Artists:
Alayynay
Marie Bouassi
Dara Breeze
Rant Casey
Rowan Eriksson
Anya Gudimova
Esra Güler
Katlyn Hubner
kiiazii
Esther Loopstra
Jessica Marie Mercy
Meg Vikan
Hotel Monaco, Seattle August - October 2023
Artists:
Melanie Biehl
David Bellard
Hotel Monaco, Seattle June- August 2023
Artists:
Dierdre Patterson
Jason Galindo
