“Disquieting Spaces: Exploring Feminine Realities”
Marina Font
Barriers, from Mental Map Series, 2018, Archival pigment on canvas gessa, cotton hemp and yarn
Nicole Cambeau
From When I See You, I See Myself Clearer - Three Generations, Armenia, Colombia, 2021, Archival Inkjet Print
Edge Zones Art Center Presents
“Disquieting Spaces: Exploring Feminine Realities”
Opening Reception: Saturday, March 1, 2025 | 6–9 PM
Open Saturday March 8th, 5- 8pm
Open Tuesday March 11th, 5 -8pm
Open By Appointment
Closing Reception Saturday, March 29th 2025 | 6–9 PM
Location: Edge Zones Art Center
Curator: Gabriela Keddell
Participating Artists: Rosemarie Chiarlone, Nicole Combeau, Tricia Cooke, Marina Font, Tere Senyase Garcia, Amy Gleb, Katelyn Kopenhaver, Shawna Moulton, Ilsse Peredo, Victoria Ravelo, Guadalupe Reyna, Alexandra Valls, Antonia Wright
This compelling exhibition captures a moment in time, showcasing the conversations and issues being explored by women through contemporary art today. Curated by Gabriela Keddell, Disquieting Spaces examines how this group of artists address gender-related issues through their work. As the conversation around women's rights continues to fluctuate—sometimes at the forefront of public discourse, other times pushed to the sidelines—art serves as an essential medium for self-expression, resistance, and reflection. Throughout history, women have made significant contributions to the visual arts, though their visibility has often been overshadowed by their male counterparts. This exhibition amplifies their voices, offering a space for them to share their perspectives and experiences through various artistic mediums. “I wanted this exhibition to be a recorded snapshot of the work women are creating today and the themes they engage with as they reflect on their lived experiences and the challenges we continue to face.” – Gabriela Keddell, Curator
Ilsee Peredo
ixchel
(mayan) – diosa maya de la luna, fertilidad, parto, sanación y tejido (spanish) – mayan moon goddess of fertility, childbirth, healing, and weaving (english)
Victoria Ravelo
Womb Abyss, 2023 - Ongoing Crown Laundry Bluing, Body Prints soft pastel water color
Amy Gelb
Was Is Will Be, 2025. Photographs printed on fabric, organza, silk thread
Rosemarie Chiarlone
No Straight Lines (Unique book) 2023 Embroidered silk taffeta beaded sequence vest
Shawna Moulton
Time And Space, 2024, Plaster and glitter
Guadalupe Reyna
Nectar I, 2025, Encaustic paintings
Tere Senyase Garcia
Normandy Fence, Anti-Monument,Video, Running time 02:48
Artist Statements
Rosemarie Chiarlone
My work explores the physical and psychological boundaries of human connections within an ever changing landscape that addresses issues of equity, diversity, inclusion, and social justice. Multifaceted concepts are explored in installations, works on paper, and book art that incorporate and often center on textual elements. Words are represented in abstract forms that are evocative, poetically coded messages meant to be “read” through the senses rather than as legible words, and thus to be interpreted broadly inviting the viewer to contextualize meaning.
Nicole Combeau
"When I See You, I See Myself Clearer" is an ongoing photographic series (2014–present) in which I explore matrilineal relationships among Latin American women in the diaspora, with a central focus on my maternal grandmother and mother. By centering the grandmother figure—often through multiple exposure on a single frame—I reflect on the influence, grounding, and reconnection heritage that elders provide as I navigate my identity as a first-generation American.
Amy Gelb
In my photographic textiles, I stitch through time and conflict. My work documents the experiences of women, believing that we have been fractured throughout history in media and art history. I’m fascinated by how women experience themselves, are perceived by others, and the roles they play and are forced to play - as well as the changing beliefs that different generations have. There are many players in female perception, many of which are pervasive, and lead to women being mistreated by others or internalizing trauma themselves. While recently there has been more visibility focusing on women's issues, we’ve only just scratched the surfac
Patricia L. Cooke
The breadth of my work is tied together via investigation of feminine-gendered materials, colors, shapes, textures, processes, and imagery. These investigations appear as both large-scale immersive installation experiences and sculptures that hang on the wall. Process, material, women’s work, feminism, and the duality between new technologies and traditional hand techniques drives my overall practice and are common themes throughout the breadth of my work.
Playing with space as a medium in my installation work leads me to investigate the structures in which we dwell; the inherent architecture of a space can be embraced or ignored. Installation provides an opportunity to create worlds of my own where I can invite the viewer to enter the fantasy. Exploration of home is the main focus throughout my installation practice; ideals of home, homemaking, gender roles and stereotypes permeate my mind.
Marina Font
She is a multidisciplinary artists working in photography, mixed media, collage, fibers, assemblage, installation and video. Her studio practice explores ideas about identity, gender, territory, language, memory and the forces of the unconscious. Her visceral and intuitive works, strongly influenced by psychoanalysis, often focuses on women and the domestic sphere.
Tere Senyase Garcia
As a migrant woman, my work confronts the oppressive weight of borders—both physical and symbolic. Normandy Fence, part of Anti-Monument, a project I developed during the 2020 US presidential election to examine the intersection of border fences and their deep military associations, examines the militarized structures that perpetuate dominance and exclusion. The Normandy fence, originally designed by Nazi Germany during WWII as beach obstacles during D-Day, is now repurposed along the US-Mexico border as a tool of oppression.
In this intervention, I carry a heavy metal bar—part of the fence—its weight pressing down as I transfer it onto light-sensitive paper to create lumen print. This physical act of carrying and pressing the bar embodies the immense burdens we migrants endure, both literal and symbolic, in these oppressive spaces.
Katelyn Kopenhaver
A controversial item, the fur coat in contemporary society remains timeless. Historically representative of social status and wealth, now vintage-sourced and repurposed (though some have claimed I’ve ‘destroyed’ them). In my exploration of the animalistic, vicious side of humans combined with my daily experience living in urban areas the coats spawn social conflicts and disputes whenever they’re in public. Individuals either feel disgusted or exhilarated, angry or elated.
They contain outward messages full of rage and expose truths, but also are utilized as a protective shield, my second skin.
Shawna Moulton
I'm using art to reflect and find myself; I want to honor and connect with my ancestors and create a legacy for future generations. The core of my work is celebrating what it means to live a life by connecting with the past, present, and future. I use various mediums that diversify these different aspects of myself, using mixed media portraits, body casting, and watercolor.
iIsse Peredo
Ilsse Peredo, born in Mexico and based in Miami, is a multifaceted visual artist whose work transcends traditional boundaries to explore the essence of human experience through photography, ceramics, video, performances, and immersive installations. Her creations are a raw and unapologetic journey through the fragmented modern world, daring viewers to confront their own stories and find meaning in the chaos.
Her work speaks in layers, peeling back societal norms, breaking taboos, and rewriting narratives. Each piece creates a sacred space where the observer is invited to reflect, feel, and engage with truths often left unspoken. It is a call to see beyond the surface, to challenge preconceptions, and to reconnect with the deeper threads of humanity that unite us all.
Ilsse’s work is a conversation between the ancient and the contemporary, an exploration of tradition reimagined for the present. It transforms the everyday into something sacred, urging viewers to see the beauty and complexity of what surrounds them..
Victoria Ravelo
Womb Abyss, inspired by the opening chapter of Edouard Glissant's Poetics of Relation, consists of panels forming an installation of a modular body. These fragments appear to simultaneously float or sink in blue space, reading as both sky and water.
The predominant blue is handmade with synthetic indigo commonly found in Miami's botanicas. Though traditionally a laundry whitener, this indigo serves in various Afro-syncretic rituals – as a dye for offerings or, when diluted, as a means to purify spaces and bodies.
Guadalupe Reyna
From the very beginning, my artistic practice has been connected to nature. My recent works are particularly linked to the cycle of bees, a bond that began when a beehive appeared in my garden a year and a half ago. This encounter led me to investigate their development and reflect on the relationship between humans and the natural world. The bees taught me about interdependence, community, and balance.
Alexandra Valls
The works in the show are two small format paintings from a larger series exploring the human condition and universes within, created in the past year.
Universal Seed and Organism were developed during Valls’ experience in oocyte cryopreservation; A modern and common choice for many women today. The practice poses many ideas over the power and paradoxical fragility of the female body. It’s infinite yet limited capacities. Valls explores the universe and ecosystem within oneself, drawing from organic forms on earth and the celestial.
Antonia Wright
Antonia Wright is a Cuban-American artist born in Miami, Florida. Through a multimedia practice of video, coding, performance, photography, sound, light, and sculpture, Wright explores systems of power. The body is a principal element in her work