GALLERY
It’s all about women
Last year, painter Chris Campbell gathered four other women artists who focus on women in their artwork. Along with Yvonne Cheng, Nancy Vilhauer, Esther Shimazu and Vicky Chock, Campbell presents "Broadsides," showing at the Academy Art Center through Jan. 31.
Campbell and Cheng continue to paint Polynesian women. Vilhauer's works bear a nostalgic feel. Shimazu's nude Asian women are as quirky as ever in all shades of the rainbow.
Chock's women, taken from court figures of the Tong dynasty, are performers.
"There's a circus theme, and then the animals came in," she says of pieces that have women riding upon the likes of fish, dogs and even a camel, while balancing other animals on their head and limbs.
Chock says that it's easier for her to create women.
"I don't exactly know what to do with men. My figures are always dealing with domestic activity. Even if they're a courtier or a circus performer, they still have to fold laundry and bring out the tea."
The Academy Art Center, 1111 Victoria St., is open 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Tuesdays to Saturdays and 1 to 5 p.m. Sundays. Admission is free. Call 532-8741.
