The Female Gaze

Artist Bio:

Gabriella Sease is a senior visual studies major working on her Bachelor of Arts, with a minor in women and gender studies. She considers herself a lesbian woman who has always vocalized her passion with gender equality and intersectionality. Her favorite mediums to work with are traditionally digital formats, but she has experimented with jewelry, screenprinting, painting and charcoal.

Artist statement:

"The Female Gaze Is my first public exhibit through Old Dominion University and aims to reclaim art history from the traditional viewpoints of the male gaze. The male gaze is not a new concept, but subverting the genre into the female gaze is. This exhibit is influenced by the renaissance and baroque periods as well as the modern time, florals, pinks, and the ideas of the female body and objectification. The taglines of my exhibition "Art history belongs to women '' and "Subvert the historical imbalance" are my viewpoints on the entire show, which celebrates femininity and the divine feminine in a graceful but poignant way. As a woman artist in a modern age I feel strongly that change is coming, and that the change is now, and I hope this exhibit will have you thinking; why is it this way? What systematic agencies create this kind of objectification without representation? And how do we change that?"