Artist and arts educator Sarah Curry has been actively creating thought-provoking, narrative artwork that addresses women’s lives in the 21st century, including topics of gender and racial inequality, reproductive rights, and appearance pressures for female youth. This September, her most recent prints and paintings focused on the diversity of women’s issues, will be on view at HEDGE Gallery in a solo exhibition titled Common Threads.

Her most recent series of work began by exploring commonalities between women with a gap of fifty years or more. She explains, “ By juxtaposing 50-year-old images of women with today’s women, I provide a space for the women to communicate. I wonder what they would say and ask others to envision their interactions. Now that women’s reproductive autonomy lacks federal protection, I am hoping this generation of women will push for more relevance and equality before all rights are erased.”

Sarah continues to develop her materials and styles, and is currently using acrylic, oils, watercolor, alcohol ink and even gold leaf. The use of gold in many of the works references the Japanese practice of “kintsugi” which is over 600 years old. It is a metaphor for transformation through brokenness and restoration, acknowledging that breakage is not the end and allowing room for hope and an invitation for growth.