Do I Dare Eat A Peach? is a group exhibition celebrating gathering, consumption, and aging through the perspectives of five emerging female artists from the U.S. and U.K. Inspired by T.S. Eliot’s The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, the title symbolizes anxieties around judgment, particularly regarding femininity and sensuality. The works depict women reclaiming their narratives and challenging societal taboos, exploring themes of empowerment, identity, and community through gatherings, food, and drink. Featuring paintings, ceramics, and sculpture, the exhibition redefines stereotypes surrounding women’s bodies, eating habits, and societal expectations, offering a powerful critique and celebration of female representation.
Carly Owens Weiss is a multidisciplinary artist based in Boulder, Colorado. As an artist, Weiss is interested in the violence of contrasts and navigating the feelings that arise in a place where the familiar or mundane are juxtaposed with something unusual. The tensions between comedy and tragedy, femininity and masculinity and seduction and repulsion greatly informs her work. She utilizes recognizable objects, often food or domestic themed, and gives the viewer access to a realm in which these objects become irrational and strange. Weiss often draws parallels between these objects, the body and the experiences lived within them to create contemporary vanitas imagery. The investigation of surface is paramount to her practice. Her pieces are rendered beautifully to momentarily distract the viewer from the dark complexities that lie beneath the surface. Thematically, she confronts contemporary issues of womanhood, longing and belonging and expectations of gender through a personal and symbolic lens.
The Empress
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The Greater Inclination
Unhappy Meal
The Provider
The Dreaming
Tapestry for Lovers
A woman's work is never done
At Both Ends
Battalion
Cake landscape