San Pedro Arts, Culture & Entertainment District News

The Woman and the Apple

The 4th annual exhibit entitled Redefining Femininity: The Woman and the Apple, is opening Thursday July 7 at The Loft Gallery. Curated by Gallery Azul, this year's tribute to women is to challenge the negative association and archetype of the Woman and the Apple. All pieces incorporate both the image of a woman and of an apple. The idea is to remove the association to Eve who tempts Adam with the apple from its negative view of the woman as temptress, destroyer of Eden, etc, and reframe this idea/concept into a more positive light. "...there has been little to describe the psychological lives and ways of gifted women, talented women, creative women. There is, on the other hand, much writ about the weakness and foibles of humans in general and women in particular." - Clarissa Pinkota Estes, PhD.