From Her Hands brings together 13 emerging and established women artists from Austin in a celebration of creation, community, and expression. Held the week before Mother’s Day, the exhibition also features artist booths, offering a dynamic space to experience and collect their work.
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This exhibition brings together thirteen women artists based in Central Texas, each with a distinct voice. Artworks presented span various two- and three-dimensional media, including ceramic sculpture, fine woodworking, craft, painting, photography, and works on paper, that convey unique language-based practices. The exhibition is rooted in a commitment to recognize and value the depth, complexity, and individuality of women working within the context of Contemporary Art.
Rather than framing these practices through a singular lens, the exhibition creates space for multiplicity. It allows for different ways of seeing, making, and understanding the world from diverse perspectives. Each artist brings her own personality, shaped by her individual story, environment, and internal landscape. Together, these works form an expansive, nuanced, and unapologetically present conversation.
There is a quiet insistence within the exhibition: women's voices are not peripheral, but central. They are not emerging; they are established. These artists are not to be grouped; they are to be encountered individually and in relation to one another.
This exhibition is an invitation to engage with work that is deeply personal, yet collectively powerful,
and to consider what it means to truly see and value women artists on their own terms. We invite all to celebrate these remarkable women artists and to appreciate the creative power they hold and radiate — From Her Hands.
Participating Artists:
Cristina Bordin · Avery Connett · Maria Dodson · Lin Flores · Sarah German · Kimberly Gottschalk · Jaewon Jeong · Ye Ji Jung · Yen-Yu Lien · Rebeca Proctor · Alex Sisney · Shailee Thakkar · Lauren Tompkins
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You are invited to step into the artistic world of Beverly A. Kemp and experience the joy, movement, and intensity she brought to the canvas. Born and raised in North Kansas City, Missouri, Beverly’s work echoes the spirit of fellow Missourian Thomas Hart Benton, whose paintings are often described as “Okie Baroque.” Like Benton, Beverly employs thick, expressive brushstrokes and dynamic, sinewy figures placed within unconventional settings, creating a heightened emotional energy that draws from scenes of everyday life.
Deliverance centers on the deeply personal and universal theme of childbirth. Each composition—at times overwhelming in its intensity—pulls the viewer directly into the moment of birth. Whether set in a cotton field (Black Women in White Cotton) or an igloo (Polar Bear Birthing Bed), the setting shifts, but the outcome remains constant: the continuation of life and the unfolding of the human narrative.
Although Beverly herself delivered three of her sons in a traditional hospital setting, it was the surrounding atmosphere—the emotional, cultural, and symbolic environment of childbirth—that inspired this body of work. Her first piece in the Deliverance series, Family Circus (pictured above), portrays birth as a three-ring spectacle, emphasizing both the chaos and wonder of the experience.
While the meaning of art may vary from viewer to viewer, Beverly’s message in Deliverance is unmistakable: regardless of setting or circumstance, birthing mothers are the bedrock of society.
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