July 14, 2009 – September 13, 2009

Bickford and Bush Compton Galleries

From the mid 18th century through WWII many female artists have placed utilitarian objects at the center of their art. Many of the works in this exhibition speak to viewers independently, through everyday objects such as a dressmaker’s figure, diapers, graters, grinders, needles, pins, pots, pans, baskets, garden-seed-packets, rakes, hoes, dress patterns, dish-rags, rolling pins, brooms, buckets, and other tools as the focus of the artwork. Part of the point of this exhibition, according to Curator Ann Aptaker, is to explore the idea of "seeing as context."