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Curator Monika Fabijanska will discuss her upcoming exhibition The Un-Heroic Act. Representations of Rape in Contemporary Women’s Art in the US, scheduled September-October 2018 at the Shiva Gallery at John Jay College for Criminal Justice, CUNY.

The exhibition proposes a concentrated survey of works devoted to rape, by three generations of women artists including Roya Amigh, Andrea Bowers, Angela Fraleigh, Natalie Frank, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Jenny Holzer, Suzanne Lacy, Ana Mendieta, Senga Nengudi, Yoko Ono, Carolee Thea, and Kara Walker. It will demonstrate that rape constitutes one of central themes in women’s art and analyze its rich iconography in all mediums.

The Un-Heroic Act is a sponsored project of the New York Foundation for the Arts through which you can make a tax deductible donation to support the exhibition and the catalog.

Monika Fabijanska is an art historian with over 15 years’ experience in curating, producing, and managing arts. Based in New York City, she specializes in international contemporary art and has special interest in women's art and feminist art.

Photo: Suzanne Lacy, Leslie Labowitz, Three Weeks in May, 1977