Julie Curtiss
Second Thought, 2017
Acrylic and oil on canvas
18 x 16 in
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Anna Glantz Traveling Horse, 2017 Oil on canvas 74 x 80 in
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Cy Gavin Woman, Yawning (Sally Bassett), 2017 Acrylic, blood, chalk and oil on denim 73 x 54 in
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Jessie Homer French 1st Presbyterian, 1994 Oil on canvas 10 x 7.50 in
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Katherine Bradford Broom Saddle, 2017 Acrylic on canvas 40 x 30 in
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Marianne Vitale
Jupiter, 2013
Reclaimed lumber and steel
55.13 x 311 x 256 in
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Rainen Knecht Ants, 2017 Oil on canvas 20 x 16 in
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Sanam Khatibi The hollow in the ferns, 2016 Handwoven wool tapestry 90 x 100 in
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Hecate
Installation view
Various Small Fires, Los Angeles, 2017
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Hecate
Installation view
Various Small Fires, Los Angeles, 2017
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Hecate
Installation view
Various Small Fires, Los Angeles, 2017
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Hecate
Installation view
Various Small Fires, Los Angeles, 2017
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Hecate
Installation view
Various Small Fires, Los Angeles, 2017
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It’s an awareness that witches and gypsies were the original guerrillas and resistance ghters against oppression — particularly the oppression of women — down through the ages. Witches have always been women who dared to be: groovy, courageous, aggressive, intelligent, nonconformist, explorative, curious, independent, sexually liberated, revolutionary (This possibly explains why nine million of them have been burned.) Witches were the rst Friendly Heads and Dealers, the rst birth-control practitioners and abortionists, the rst alchemists. They bowed to no man, being the living remnants of the oldest culture of all — one in which men and women were equal sharers in a truly cooperative society, before the death-dealing sexual, economic, and spiritual repression of the Imperialist Phallic Society took over and began to destroy nature and human society.”