Pages from the Book of Women


“The CIA should hire as spies only women over fifty because we are truly invisible.” 

- Marge Piercy


How did the natural process of a woman aging, a testament to her strength, become one of society's greatest stigmas? With mature women glaringly absent from art history, the overshadowing by the “male gaze” and the cultural obsession with youth, the belief that aging renders women invisible is pervasive. With “Pages from the Book of Women: Invisibility” and 'Three Graces'," I challenge the politics of aging and celebrate those who defy invisibility, proving age is no barrier to relevance. Invisible…laughable. In my version of Raphael’s "Three Graces," older women as demi-gods bring practical gifts of balance, wonder, and hilarity. These works testify to the enduring magic of older women—more captivating at 80 than at 18.

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