The Watergate Hotel DC

(Washington D.C.) Unix Gallery and dmincubator gallery announces a group exhibition to celebrate the Women’s History Month of March, titled, Women United, at The Watergate Hotel.

The exhibition features the works of five contemporary women artists, including Flavia Junqueira, Athena Anastasiou, Lesley Bodzy, Emilie Picard, Ellen de Meijer, and Afia Prempeh, uniting established and emerging voices in a cross-generational dialogue. The exhibition explores themes of identity, resilience, transformation, and the female gaze. Through painting, mixed media, and conceptual practices, the artists examine personal and collective narratives shaped by culture, memory, and contemporary society.

Flavia Junqueira is a Brazilian contemporary artist who produces boldly imaginative photographic images of balloons and bubbles that occupy and transform spaces, history, and memory.

Emilie Picard is a French painter who composes delicately images of discarded objects and symbols on canvases that bear cracks, gaps, and tears, to emphasize the fragility of life and our inevitable mortality.

Athena Anastasiou is a British painter who makes elaborate compositions that blend realism, abstraction, traditional oil painting techniques, and textile weaving, expressing both wonder and concern for Earth’s natural beauty and dwindling resources.

Ellen de Meijer is a Dutch painter who depicts portraits of modern-day archetypes, each rperesenting both aggressor and victim, as an expression of our collective struggles and lies that reflect society’s harmful social structures and conventions.

Lesley Bodzy is a contemporary artist whose multidisciplinary practice includes painting, sculpture, and installation. Working across both traditional and unconventional materials, she is widely known for her innovative approach to paint as both image and object. Bodzy transforms liquid pigment into draped, suspended, layered, and cast forms that challenge conventional definitions of two-dimensional and three-dimensional art.

Afia Prempeh, a Ghanian artist, weaves vibrant narratives through her genre-bending portraits, blending traditional techniques with innovative flair. Initially hesitant to explore the human figure, Prempeh now embraces the challenge, pouring her subjects' stories into each brushstroke. Drawing on art historical, political, and personal references, she creates densely layered figurative compositions that, while precise in style, conjure the complexity of contemporary experience.