UW-Parkside’s Mathis Gallery Announces May 2025 Exhibition
Goddesses and Monsters: Works on Paper
The Mathis Gallery at UW-Parkside is pleased to announce its May 2025 exhibition, Goddesses and Monsters: Works on Paper, a traveling exhibition presented by the Association of Hysteric Curators (AHC). The exhibition will run from May 13 through June 13.
In an era of intense political backlash against women's rights, this powerful exhibition raises urgent questions about reimagining feminist power through the deconstruction and reconfiguration of masculinist versions of goddess and monster iconography. Featured artists challenge long-standing patriarchal norms that have shaped goddess and monster imagery throughout art history, exploring how these representations can be reconceptualized and reclaimed from multiple feminist perspectives.
The exhibition includes diverse works that engage with significant aesthetic and political sub-themes central to feminist renderings of goddess and monster iconography. Visitors will experience works across the figuration versus abstraction continuum, including pieces by Ruby Osorio, Amy Swartelé, Mary Anna Pomonis, Lisa Oxley, and Mei Xian Qiu. Additional themes explored include creativity, justice, solidarity, and self-expression/determination through works by Rachel Finkelstein, Maya Makrandilal, Chelsea Dean, Snezana Saraswati Petrovic, and Rosina Lardieri.
Goddesses and Monsters: Works on Paper was curated by the Association of Hysteric Curators, a Los Angeles-based collective of feminist artists and curators founded in 2014. The AHC's mission is to advance the lives and careers of feminist artists while exploring alternative paradigms of gender and political protest through a non-hierarchical organizational structure based in dialogue and exchange.
This exhibition supplements and expands recent exhibition activity on goddess and monster feminism, following significant exhibitions at the British Museum (2022), New Museum (2023), and the Women's Art Collection at the University of Cambridge (2024).
Mathis Gallery's hours are Tuesday through Friday from 9 a.m. – 4 p.m. and is closed on Sundays and public holidays. Admission is free and open to the public.For more information, visit https://www.uwp.edu/therita/artgalleries.cfm
About Mathis Gallery
Located at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside, Mathis Gallery is dedicated to promoting artistic excellence and cultural awareness through diverse exhibitions and educational programs. The gallery serves as a hub for creativity and inspiration, fostering connections between the university and the broader community.
About the Association of Hysteric Curators
The AHC envisions "a future of human equality, knowing we must interrogate the customs of today in order to enable conditions for change." For more information, please visit www.hystericcurators.com.
About UW-Parkside
Since its founding in 1968, the University of Wisconsin-Parkside has been a trusted partner for the region’s higher educational needs, empowering students to thrive, advancing applied knowledge, and developing talent for the future. The university offers undergraduate and graduate degrees, as well as certificates and pre-professional programs, designed to foster personal and professional growth through real-world and impactful learning experiences. Located in the dynamic Chicago-Milwaukee corridor, UW-Parkside offers unmatched access to world-class internships, professional networks, and endless career-building opportunities, placing students at the center of it all.
Media contact:
Colin Matthes
Gallery Director
University of Wisconsin-Parkside
matthes@uwp.edu