The title of the new exhibition in Jeannette’s You Are Here gallery has layers of meaning.
“Women’s Work,” which opened with a reception Feb. 1 and continues through Feb. 29, features artwork in various media by a group of area artists.
As the name implies, all of the contributors to the show are women — and then the meaning gets a little deeper.
The varied pieces and their themes “are subversive of what you would anticipate from women artists — fiber, flowers and domesticity,” said the gallery’s curatorial assistant Phoebe Walczak, who hung the show.
“This is what women do for work; it’s not just changing diapers and keeping house, though they do that, too,” said juror Maureen Vissat Kochanek, a professor of art history at Seton Hill University.
The idea for the exhibition grew out of the art center’s third-Thursday discussion group for women artists, said gallery co-founders Mary Briggs and Jen Costello.
Featured artists include: Jess Higo Walbridge, Nicole Chmel, Aimee Bungard, Courtney Robson, Amy Roadman, Erin Waller, Jacs Fishburne, Jen Palmer, Kimberly Rentler, Leah Riley, Melissa Hayden, Natalie Condrac, Olena Abakumova, Pamela Cooper, Susan Novak, Rachel Wheeler, Sarah Hunter, Shalini Mitra and Stacey Pydynkowski.
