These Provocative Portraits Celebrate ‘Feral Women’

by Erika W. Smith November 3, 2016

Erika W. Smith November 3, 2016

Katrina del Mar, Suzy Hotrod in her living room, Brooklyn 2011, Chromogenic Print on metallic paper 50 x 70 in.

Feminist photographer and artist Katrina del Mar will premiere a new solo exhibition next month. Titled “Feral Women,” the exhibition shows new and archival work in several different mediums — photo portraits, filmed portraits, black velvet paintings and drawings — that reveals Katrina’s obsession with “women expressing wildness, sometimes overt, sometimes subtle, is a manifestation of innate power. The high hard femme, the bad girl, the rocker, the biker, the surfer-selkie, are icons of a new feminist pantheon.”

You can catch “Feral Women/Filmed Portraits” at New York’s Prince Street Project Space with programming administered by the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art from December 9th through December 11th, 2016, with a few special events listed below. For now, you can catch a few portraits from the exhibit here:

unnamed copy copy copy copy copy copy copy Katrina del Mar, Jade with gold nails, 2016 Oil Pastels & gold leaf on black paper 22 x 30 in.