Core to Less Than Half’s mission, of course, is the support of women artists— but indirectly. We teach women how to collect women artists. But sometimes we want to bring the mission a little closer to home by partnering with organizations who directly support women artists— and bringing their work to our members!
We partnered with Rise & Repaint (meet the founders in our previous post) last month to bring Less Than Half members work from a selection of their network’s artists—and now we’re opening the remaining works to the wider LTH community!
All pieces are for sale and under $2k (most under $1k)— and remember, a sale for a living artist helps her pay for materials and studio space.
So let’s meet the artists!
First up, Leigh Webber, who uses an underwater camera to photograph these “small altars” of fruit and found objects.
In her own words: “I’m not just photographing the objects. I’m a part of what’s happening to them, [so] I can’t be a neutral observer. The way that people move through each others lives— we leave traces on each other. None of us pass through anything without changing it. So that’s what I see in [these works].”
Next, sculptor and jewellery designer Brittany Søndberg!
In her own words: “Getting into my 40s I wasn’t going to limit myself. I was allowing myself to play more with different materials, with less rules. This was about the balance and imbalance that I felt personally.
I went back to my jewellery roots, using metal smithing techniques, forging this copper doing enameling… [In Leap] the way you have a setting around a stone that emphasizes the preciousness of that focal point. I wanted to play with that sculpturally. [It’s about] moving forward and optimism.”
And watercolors from Washington State-based artist Brooke Gassiot!
In her own words: “I had young children in art school and my lived experience was not reflected in the art I was seeing. There were so few women’s voices in museums… from that very early point, I really wanted to share my story as a woman, and an artist, and a mother.
More recently, as I just went through menopause myself… I want to reflect on those transitions.”
Here’s painter of the finely observed, Marlene Lowden!
In her own words: “When you see my work, they’re like visual poems that revere that quiet, often overlooked strength and power not only of the natural world, but also of the women who’ve come before me.
My works are repetitions of the shapes and lines I find in that tiny micro magical world of mine. You know when you’re at the beach see the water receding off the sand and you see those ripples? Well, those same shapes and lines are in the cloud formations. Or on the barks of trees you’ll see shapes and lines that look like the ocean on a chalky day.
At my core I understood this web that we live in, this interconnectedness.”
And finally, the powerful photographs of a contemporary America by Yu-Chen Chiu!
In her own words: “My work often explores identity, belonging, and historical memory, asking how personal and collective histories are carried through the places we inhabit.”
Members get early access to our quarterly showcases, so explore our membership to join our next showcase— when we’ll partner with the oldest women artists organization in the U.S.
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