Women Beyond Borders Art Collection founded by Lorraine Serena
The Women Beyond Borders Art Collection includes over 900 self styled wooden boxes reflecting on a specific woman's self-identity using a variety of multi-media processes. In Painting, Ahmadi details camels, a winter scene with a faceless woman on the lid; written on the side is BELQIS FACLTY OF ARTS KABUL AFGHANISTAN.
The Women Beyond Borders Art Collection includes over 900 self styled wooden boxes reflecting on a specific woman's self-identity using a variety of multi-media processes. The artist has positioned her box on red covered cardboard with sequins and a pair of blue shoes.; extending from the box is a female mannequin dressed in an orange dress positioned in front of another mannequin wearing a red skirt. The box is enclosed in a shower-like curatain. Identfiying informaton is on the reverse.
The Women Beyond Borders Art Collection includes over 900 self styled wooden boxes reflecting on a specific woman's self-identity using a variety of multi-media processes. The artist has placed her box on a stilt-like structure and added various ceramic vessels to the interior.
The Women Beyond Borders Art Collection includes over 900 self styled wooden boxes reflecting on a specific woman's self-identity using a variety of multi-media processes. In this representation, the artist has outfitted her box in bright green with multiple electronic components and circuit boards attached to the exterior including plugs at both sides.
The Women Beyond Borders Art Collection includes over 900 self styled wooden boxes reflecting on a specific woman's self-identity using a variety of multi-media processes. The artist has created a fold-out structure of her box replicating memorable experiences as suggested by the title of her box Viaje En La Memoria.
The Women Beyond Borders Art Collection includes over 900 self styled wooden boxes reflecting on a specific woman's self-identity using a variety of multi-media processes. The artist has created a scene of minature coca cola bottles with tin coca cola advertisements in hommage to her grandmother's habits. Art description and date on the reverse.
The Women Beyond Borders Art Collection includes over 900 self styled wooden boxes reflecting on a specific woman's self-identity using a variety of multi-media processes. In Untitled, the artist has used black and white beads to cover her box.
The Women Beyond Borders Art Collection includes over 900 self styled wooden boxes reflecting on a specific woman's self-identity using a variety of multi-media processes. In Untitled, the box is covered with red and green paint with the edges detailed in black.
The Women Beyond Borders Art Collection includes over 900 self styled wooden boxes reflecting on a specific woman's self-identity using a variety of multi-media processes. In Untitled, the artist has used a beaded application overall; the lid has been separated in to two parts.
The Women Beyond Borders Art Collection includes over 900 self styled wooden boxes reflecting on a specific woman's self-identity using a variety of multi-media processes. This box is also painted in reds and greens with the edges outlined in black.
The Women Beyond Borders Art Collection includes over 900 self styled wooden boxes reflecting on a specific woman's self-identity using a variety of multi-media processes. In Untitled, a flat pattern design of blue blue beads highlighted with white covers the box.
The Women Beyond Borders Art Collection includes over 900 self styled wooden boxes reflecting on a specific woman's self-identity using a variety of multi-media processes. The box is covered in blue knitted weave.
The Women Beyond Borders Art Collection includes over 900 self styled wooden boxes reflecting on a specific woman's self-identity using a variety of multi-media processes. The artist has covered her box in a rich green fabric highlighted with green beads.
The Women Beyond Borders Art Collection includes over 900 self styled wooden boxes reflecting on a specific woman's self-identity using a variety of multi-media processes. This box has been separated in half with each covered in brown fabric with pink lace.
The Women Beyond Borders Art Collection includes over 900 self styled wooden boxes reflecting on a specific woman's self-identity using a variety of multi-media processes. In Untitled, this box is adorned with white and silver intricately placed beading.
The Women Beyond Borders Art Collection includes over 900 self styled wooden boxes reflecting on a specific woman's self-identity using a variety of multi-media processes. As part of the Children's Box Project, the artist has used a cardboard box outfitted with various textiles and threads.
Wood box, filling, velvet, sweing trim, crocheted pouch
"In my home country, Japan, there is a legend for girls that says that their prospective husbands have their little toes tied up to them with an invisible red thread. I used to believe in this legend as well. In my opinion, it is wonderful to be able to believe in such a thing. Since we're infants, we are educated to play a role either as a woman or as man. I still remember when I used to play house-dolls with my friends and how much we enjoyed playing the mother's role, like all the mothers of every mother. It is a simple but very pleasing memory that all women have inside. However, nowadays I often feel a victim of the male order and often wonder what I can do about it. I was thinking of this as I was making this box and I felt like I was playing with dolls again because I was doing typical housework tasks such as sewing, washing, and ironing. I hope you will tender my piece during the traveling exhibition as if it were our collective memory, which men will never be able to understand. And please, wash it and iron it when needed." - Akané Asaoka
The Women Beyond Borders Art Collection includes over 900 self styled wooden boxes reflecting on a specific woman's self-identity using a variety of multi-media processes. Box has been painted brown with an orange like structure with colored piecess affixed to the tops and sides. Single black chess piece sits at lower right edge.
The Women Beyond Borders Art Collection includes over 900 self styled wooden boxes reflecting on a specific woman's self-identity using a variety of multi-media processes. Baird has left the surface untreated but has etched hieroglyphs on the sides and topside of box. Lid is enclosed with rope-like braid. This box has been reconfigured into a puzzle. The box, reminiscent of a hope chest, is a powerful symbol--- resonating, archetypal symbol of woman herself. The boxes express the hopes dreams, and conception of women and their quest for freedom of expression thoughout the world. WBB honors their vitality, wisdom, sensitivity and collective power -- Lorraine Serena, Founder/Director.
Eu Busca de la Cruz del Sur, 1996
The Women Beyond Borders Art Collection includes over 900 self styled wooden boxes reflecting on a specific woman's self-identity using a variety of multi-media processes. Balladares has styled her box with a circular grid which spears her box and forms a cross in the interior suggested by the title Eu Busca de la Cruz del Sur.
The Women Beyond Borders Art Collection includes over 900 self styled wooden boxes reflecting on a specific woman's self-identity using a variety of multi-media processes. In Untitled #1, Barekzai uses a flat pattern design of ciruclar forms in yellows, browns and black to cover her box. Indicated on the side is written 21-5-2003.
The Women Beyond Borders Art Collection includes over 900 self styled wooden boxes reflecting on a specific woman's self-identity using a variety of multi-media processes. The artist has painted her box in bright colors forming abstract designs overall with a mobile of similar-like objects attached to interior.
The Women Beyond Borders Art Collection includes over 900 self styled wooden boxes reflecting on a specific woman's self-identity using a variety of multi-media processes. Box with various painted symbols of the Australian flag.
The Women Beyond Borders Art Collection includes over 900 self styled wooden boxes reflecting on a specific woman's self-identity using a variety of multi-media processes. The artist has kept the box in a natural state while drawing a set of grasping hands in black and white on lid and sides.
The Women Beyond Borders Art Collection includes over 900 self styled wooden boxes reflecting on a specific woman's self-identity using a variety of multi-media processes. Benitez has embellished her box with a purple velveteen with lace edging a flower embroidered with a hanging glass-like tear shaped amulet attached to the lid's interior.
`The Women Beyond Borders Art Collection includes over 900 self styled wooden boxes reflecting on a specific woman's self-identity using a variety of multi-media processes. Bourgeois has painted her box in pink hearts while the interior houses a black and white photograph of a female figure, most likely the artist. The box, reminiscent of a hope chest, is a powerful symbol--- resonating, archetypal symbol of woman herself. The boxes express the hopes dreams, and conception of women and their quest for freedom of expression thoughout the world. WBB honors their vitality, wisdom, sensitivity and collective power -- Lorraine Serena, Founder/Director.
Wood box, paint, poster board, string, wood, metal ornament
The Women Beyond Borders Art Collection includes over 900 self styled wooden boxes reflecting on a specific woman's self-identity using a variety of multi-media processes. Brown has embellished her box by adding gold trim and various colored beads to the exterior; the interior opens into thirds with the Virgin Mary on the left, and Queen Elizabeth (the first) on the right known as the Virgin Queen as she never married. The interior is outfitted to resemble a confessional.
Six Interconneting Planes of Ca...
`The Women Beyond Borders Art Collection includes over 900 self styled wooden boxes reflecting on a specific woman's self-identity using a variety of multi-media processes. Ms. Brown has painted her box green which has been flattened to form six interconnecting planes as the title suggests.
Crick, Josiliva Navavia
The Women Beyond Borders Art Collection includes over 900 self styled wooden boxes reflecting on a specific woman's self-identity using a variety of multi-media processes. The artist has configured into a water well situated in a large base with rocks; brightly colored clothespins serve as structuarl posts to support lid from which drinking vessel hangs.
`The Women Beyond Borders Art Collection includes over 900 self styled wooden boxes reflecting on a specific woman's self-identity using a variety of multi-media processes. The artist has wrapped her box in white material featuring images of straw baskets.
Wood box, plaster, doll socks and shoes, plastic flowers
The Women Beyond Borders Art Collection includes over 900 self styled wooden boxes reflecting on a specific woman's self-identity using a variety of multi-media processes. Abstract sculpture emerges from the box, pushing the lid to the side as a mass of colorful wax erupts from the interior and consumes the outside.
DAVIES, Rosalind Damaris
"Where Granvail, Irish Sea Queen resided 1530-1603." - Rosalind Damaris Davies
Black & White, Day & Night - Oppo...1999
The Women Beyond Borders Art Collection includes over 900 self styled wooden boxes reflecting on a specific woman's self-identity using a variety of multi-media processes. The artist used paint, photographs, fabric, plastic dolls, and metal ornaments to create their piece. This piece is a marker for an experience or event the artists has lived thorugh, holding meaning as a ritual of celebration.
de CARRIERI, Leonor Rigau
Constructivismo Deconstructivismo, 1995
The artist has reconfigured her box into multiple adjoining puzzle pieces.
"Leonor Rigau de Carrieri was born in San Luis, Argentina, on October 2, 1931. She graduated as a Professor of Fine Arts in 1953, at the National University of Cuyo. There, she specialized in Color Theory, also studying traditional craft with Víctor Delhez and experimenting with didactics with César Jannello. She later married the sculptor José Carrieri and spent periods in Europe on scholarship, returning several times. Her career combined teaching, research, and institutional leadership. She taught in Mendoza and at the National University of San Juan, where she was eventually named Professor Emerita. She held senior roles at the university, served as a delegate for the Argentinian National Arts Fund, and directed the Tornambé Center for Creative Visual Arts and Museum. Her body of work spans painting, serigraphy, computer art, stained glass and glasswork. Investigations into color and light became a defining aspect of her practice. She exhibited widely, with solo shows in Argentina, in San Juan, Buenos Aires, Mendoza, and San Luis, and group exhibitions in Argentina, Mexico, and Canada. Her works are held in private collections, and her murals and glass pieces appear in homes, churches, and public institutions across the Cuyo region. Painting series include: Los pájaros (Birds); Isla de Pascua (Easter Island); Los comediantes (The Comedians); Muñecas para armar (Dolls to Assemble); and Los iconostarios (The Iconostaries)."" Source: Leonor Rigau de Carrieri, San Juan al Mundo, September 10, 2023. https://www.sanjuanalmundo.com/articulo?id=330114"
Untitled, 2001 Mixed media
The Women Beyond Borders Art Collection includes over 900 self styled wooden boxes reflecting on a specific woman's self-identity using a variety of multi-media processes. The artist painted the box white and added abstracted red human figures to the sides and cut outs of words on the top. Artist's signature on bottom.
DIAZ, Cirenaica Moreira
The Women Beyond Borders Art Collection includes over 900 self styled wooden boxes reflecting on a specific woman's self-identity using a variety of multi-media processes. The artist has reconfigured her box by hanging the sides and tops with a hanger suspended with cords.
The Women Beyond Borders Art Collection includes over 900 self styled wooden boxes reflecting on a specific woman's self-identity using a variety of multi-media processes. The box is tilted to the side being elevated by the wooden lid that rests underneath. Woven textiles of black and purple threads are draped inside the box spilling out, cushioning a small colLection of film rolls and dried rose buds. Burned pieces of paper with writing are adhered onto the textile in the interior of the box.
The Women Beyond Borders Art Collection includes over 900 self styled wooden boxes reflecting on a specific woman's self-identity using a variety of multi-media processes. The artist has created an eye-like structure with nails and organic materials.
"Susana Dragotta is a prominent Argentine artist and designer specializing in costuming for dance and theater. Trained at the School of Arts and Design at the National University of Cuyo, she is also an educator in her fields. Throughout her career, she has received major honors, including the Grand Prize at the National Salon in Textile Art (2009) and Merit Diplomas from the Konex Awards (2002 and 2012). Since 1989, Dragotta has explored sculpture through paper weaving, creating large-scale works that represented her at the 5th Havana Biennial (1994). In 1997, she launched the series Corazón maldito, blending sculpture and costume design. The project earned recognition from experts such as Gracia Cutuli, who highlighted her work in publications of the National Academy of Fine Arts. In the 2000s, she turned to soft sculpture, using contemporary techniques and vinyl textiles to produce collapsible, portable pieces. Her work is included in major Argentinian collections such as the Museum of Modern Art of Mendoza, the Macro-Castagnino in Rosario, the MALBA collection, and the Palais de Glace. In 2010, she took part in the group exhibition Southern Identity: Contemporary Argentine Art, organized by the Smithsonian Latino Center with Argentina’s Secretariat of Culture." Source: Satsch Gallery (@satsch_gallery). "Susanna Dragotta." Instagram, October 31, 2024. https://www.instagram.com/p/DBzfZAyqmHW/.
The Women Beyond Borders Art Collection includes over 900 self styled wooden boxes reflecting on a specific woman's self-identity using a variety of multi-media processes. The artist has encased the box in a larger wood log. Part A is the bottom. B is the lid.
`The Women Beyond Borders Art Collection includes over 900 self styled wooden boxes reflecting on a specific woman's self-identity using a variety of multi-media processes. Ms. Edwards has retained the natural surface of her box but has added a tan substance resembling that of bread on the lid and interior.
The Women Beyond Borders Art Collection includes over 900 self styled wooden boxes reflecting on a specific woman's self-identity using a variety of multi-media processes. Artist has detailed her box in an abstracted design of blacks and browns with an equally abstracted gold figure positioned on the exterior.
EID AL-FADLI, Eman Hanoun
The Women Beyond Borders Art Collection includes over 900 self styled wooden boxes reflecting on a specific woman's self-identity using a variety of multi-media processes. As part of the Children's Box Project, the artist has used a cardboard box extending the side panels painted in bright colors creating a floor rug pattern. The upper sides are extended and include images of domestic utensils such as bowls and cups. The top is laced together with a cord.
`The Women Beyond Borders Art Collection includes over 900 self styled wooden boxes reflecting on a specific woman's self-identity using a variety of multi-media processes. Various objects flank this box as the artist has included a checkerboard pallet while a human-like clay figure is embracing the box complete with decorative stamps on the interior. The box, reminiscent of a hope chest, is a powerful symbol--- resonating, archetypal symbol of woman herself. The boxes express the hopes dreams, and conception of women and their quest for freedom of expression thoughout the world. WBB honors their vitality, wisdom, sensitivity and collective power -- Lorraine Serena, Founder/Director.
The Women Beyond Borders Art Collection includes over 900 self styled wooden boxes reflecting on a specific woman's self-identity using a variety of multi-media processes. In Untitled, Farahmand uses a flat pattern design of ciruclar forms in yellows, blues and greens to cover her box.
Wood box, lens, dice, photographs, vinyl record, stamps, metal chain and key
Polina Fedorova worked with her 96-year-old grandmother to create this box.
FERGUSON, Kelsey and STUART, Robert
The Women Beyond Borders Art Collection includes over 900 self styled wooden boxes reflecting on a specific woman's self-identity using a variety of multi-media processes. The dual artist team of Ferguson and Stuart have created a wind chime from their box. Suspended upside down attached to a cone-like sturcture, the blue box holds a glass bottle of coke with wind chimes.
The Women Beyond Borders Art Collection includes over 900 self styled wooden boxes reflecting on a specific woman's self-identity using a variety of multi-media processes. Fieldsend has painted her box white with metal cone attached at top with hair strands sticking out the sides and from underneath.
The Women Beyond Borders Art Collection includes over 900 self styled wooden boxes reflecting on a specific woman's self-identity using a variety of multi-media processes. Flores has dissassembled her box into three pieces; the lid is painted green with a collaged picture; the sides are blue sketch marks.
The Women Beyond Borders Art Collection includes over 900 self styled wooden boxes reflecting on a specific woman's self-identity using a variety of multi-media processes. In Eva Travels, the artist has detailed an apple on the underside of the box with EVA and ADAM written on the edges with a robust female like sturcture perched on top.
Rosemary Gerdes was born in London, UK, on April 30, 1947, later settling in Argentina, where she became a naturalized citizen. She specializes in wood sculpture and painting. Since 1973, she has exhibited her work in Argentina, Mexico, France, Italy, Slovakia, and other countries. In 2004, scholars Karina Blaiotta and Jorge Rempel posited that Gerdes is “passionate about wood as a noble, natural material, immensely rich in expressiveness and variety. Transforming it into an artistic expression is her urgent goal.” She has exhibited since 1973 in Argentina and abroad — including Mexico, France, Italy and Slovakia — and has been active in international sculpture festivals and biennials. Over the course of her career, she has received numerous honors, and her work is a part of collections around the globe, such as the Museo Rosa Galisteo (Rosario); Museum of Fine Arts (Chaco); Beato Angélico Museum (La Plata); Sívori Museum (Buenos Aires); Museum of Gabrovo (Bulgaria); Museum of Modern Art (Toluca, Mexico). Gerdes participated in public carving competitions and wood-sculpture events in Chaco; Buenos Aires Botanical Garden; Camille Claudel Festival (France); Fairbanks, Alaska (invited artist); La Bresse (France); Højer (Denmark); Banská Štiavnica (Slovakia); Sennori (Sardinia); Playground Rodovre, Copenhagen, European Capital of Culture. In the 2000s and 2010s, she taught classes at the Eduardo Sívori Museum in Buenos Aires.
Wood box, gauze, toy parts, circuit board
Of Sticks a Stack- a Stake (a Fa..., 1995
The Women Beyond Borders Art Collection includes over 900 self styled wooden boxes reflecting on a specific woman's self-identity using a variety of multi-media processes. As the title suggests, this box has been turned into a stack of sticks which have been bundled.
The Women Beyond Borders Art Collection includes over 900 self styled wooden boxes reflecting on a specific woman's self-identity using a variety of multi-media processes. Exterior of the box is covered in colorful tiger stripes whIth a metal emblem of a tiger resting on the lid.
The Women Beyond Borders Art Collection includes over 900 self styled wooden boxes reflecting on a specific woman's self-identity using a variety of multi-media processes. This work includes a colorfully painted diorama with a nude female seated on a box attached at center. Identifying information printed on reverse edge.
The Women Beyond Borders Art Collection includes over 900 self styled wooden boxes reflecting on a specific woman's self-identity using a variety of multi-media processes. Artist has created a model airplane around the box using Coca Cola boxes and red and white paint. A small human figure sits in the pilots seat. Artist's signature on plane wing.
The Women Beyond Borders Art Collection includes over 900 self styled wooden boxes reflecting on a specific woman's self-identity using a variety of multi-media processes. A couple is sealed into the box similiar to a coffin, made visible through a clear piece of plastic. Exterior of the box is painted yellow with red Vietnamese symbols with various objects including incense sticks, wax, wire, and natural fibers. Hog describes the work as a coffin that forever captures the love two people may share with one another, even if they are unable to be together due to the societal pressures that forces them to be apart.
"My work deals with the femininity of a woman, as she struggles not only be a part of society's workforce, but also to maintain her appearance as changes are brought about through aging. Instead of a small wooden box, I have cast a larger box from wax, not only to enhance its appearance but also to give it that sense of being alive. The box itself is wrapped up with skin and it is this skin that is stacked inside the box in repetitive folds. The wrapped box together with the repetitive skin represents the struggles of a modern woman in the community, to which she has, to balance between society and the family, and yet maintain her endless beauty for society." - Agatha Hutton
The Women Beyond Borders Art Collection includes over 900 self styled wooden boxes reflecting on a specific woman's self-identity using a variety of multi-media processes. The artist has positioned her box on its side creating a welcome mat and a faux fireplace facade with hair representing flames.
The Women Beyond Borders Art Collection includes over 900 self styled wooden boxes reflecting on a specific woman's self-identity using a variety of multi-media processes. The exterior of the box is a tin cookie container with Disney characters in bold colors printed on the lid. Interior of the box is a bed of fluffy tufts of fabric with a centralized rock.
The Women Beyond Borders Art Collection includes over 900 self styled wooden boxes reflecting on a specific woman's self-identity using a variety of multi-media processes. Artist has painted the box red and stood it upright. The lid acts as a door to a refrigerator with the Coca Cola logo pasted on it. Artist's signature at bottom.
The Women Beyond Borders Art Collection includes over 900 self styled wooden boxes reflecting on a specific woman's self-identity using a variety of multi-media processes. The artist has turned her box into a dirty kitchen with unwashed pots and pans and rats running around.
The Women Beyond Borders Art Collection includes over 900 self styled wooden boxes reflecting on a specific woman's self-identity using a variety of multi-media processes. This box has been wrapped in gold with a printed message on the interior discussing passivity.
Wood box, metal hinge and closure, collage, fabric, filling, thread
KATIE, Tim and KING, Audrey
The Women Beyond Borders Art Collection includes over 900 self styled wooden boxes reflecting on a specific woman's self-identity using a variety of multi-media processes. The artists paint the box white and fill it with small scrolls that spill out. The box is set against a large black panel. A white veil and words spill from the box. Artist signatures on reverse.
KATIE, TIM and KING, Audrey
The Women Beyond Borders Art Collection includes over 900 self styled wooden boxes reflecting on a specific woman's self-identity using a variety of multi-media processes. The artist has carved her box resembling that of an etched print; a typwriter ball is affixed to lid.
The Women Beyond Borders Art Collection includes over 900 self styled wooden boxes reflecting on a specific woman's self-identity using a variety of multi-media processes. This box includes a drawing of hearts and a walnut form on lid. As the title suggests, this box has been turned into a stack of sticks which have been bundled.
`The Women Beyond Borders Art Collection includes over 900 self styled wooden boxes reflecting on a specific woman's self-identity using a variety of multi-media processes. The artist has detailed a woman and her womb with a baby on the exterior of the box. On the side is written WOMEN CREATE LIFE.
The Women Beyond Borders Art Collection includes over 900 self styled wooden boxes reflecting on a specific woman's self-identity using a variety of multi-media processes. In this box, the artist has draped a crocheted fabric over the lid with various vegetation in the interior.
Estela Labiano was born in Mendoza in 1955. She obtained a Licentiate and a Teaching Degree in Visual Arts at the National University of Cuyo. As an artist, she specializes in drawing, characterizing the practice as such: "with the simplest resource—a single line—I feel I can describe the earth, the sky, and ourselves." During the last Argentine military dictatorship, she went into exile in the city of Puebla, Mexico, together with her husband, the late sculptor Chalo Tulián. While there, she taught at the Institute of Visual Arts in Puebla. After returning to Argentina, she taught at the university level in San Juan and Mendoza, and has been a professor at UNCuyo since 1988. She participated in solo and group exhibitions in Mexico, Chile, the United States, Italy, and Argentina. She received numerous awards throughout her career, including first prizes at the Salón de Dibujo Joven, Mendoza (1980); Primer Certamen de Murales, Guaymallén, Mendoza (1980); V Concurso Nacional “Las Américas”, Universidad de las Américas, Puebla, Mexico (1983); Salón Bienal de Artes Plásticas (Mendoza), Drawing (1988); Salón Vendimia de Artes Plásticas (Cuyo), Drawing (1989), and IX Salón Bienal de Artes Plásticas (Mendoza) (1994).
The Women Beyond Borders Art Collection includes over 900 self styled wooden boxes reflecting on a specific woman's self-identity using a variety of multi-media processes. Foam bricks surround the wooden box and are carved and painted to resemble the texture and appearance of the earth. A variety of yellow flowers blossom from the ground and surround a sunken grave with a gray, burnt tombstone being reclaimed by the soil. The chasm in the center hosts rods of iron and spikes pointing upwards to symbolize how "death is always near by," but "flowers still live and rise above all."
Trust and the White Rabbit, 1997
The Women Beyond Borders Art Collection includes over 900 self styled wooden boxes reflecting on a specific woman's self-identity using a variety of multi-media processes. Purple painted box positioned on a larger ciruclar purple platform; inserted vertically into the smaller box is a CD with red-brick wallpaper on one side; remaining side blank. Identifying information is on the reverse.
The Mummified Stone Heart, 1996
The Women Beyond Borders Art Collection includes over 900 self styled wooden boxes reflecting on a specific woman's self-identity using a variety of multi-media processes. The artist has written THE MUMMIFIED STONE HEART on her box lid while the interior of the box is filled with various items.
The Women Beyond Borders Art Collection includes over 900 self styled wooden boxes reflecting on a specific woman's self-identity using a variety of multi-media processes. Lehtonen has painted her box green with a moss filled interior.
The Women Beyond Borders Art Collection includes over 900 self styled wooden boxes reflecting on a specific woman's self-identity using a variety of multi-media processes. The box has been painted red with a wired fixture attached on top. This box has been reconfigured in puzzle-like pieces with letters.
Ana Lizaso is a visual artist based in Buenos Aires whose work has received several distinctions, including the Third Acquisition Prize of the Salón Municipal Manuel Belgrano (1992), an Honorable Mention from the Museo de Arte Moderno (1996), the Second Prize at the Salón Nacional (1996), and a Creativity Mention from the Fondo Nacional de las Artes (1999). She was also invited to participate in the Trabucco Prize, awarded by the National Academy of Fine Arts of Argentina, in 2001, 2004, and 2007. Since the early 1990s, Lizaso has exhibited widely in group shows, salons, and sculpture programs across Argentina. She also participated in thematic and traveling exhibitions, sculpture competitions—among them the Parque de la Memoria competition—and projects organized by galleries such as Laura Haber, Ática, and Cecilia Caballero. Her participation in Palacio Alcorta led to her inclusion in the Argentine Foreign Ministry’s collection. Throughout the decade, she continued to contribute to design-focused initiatives and served as both curator and participant in sculpture programs.
Wood box, perfume bottles, make-up containers and brushes, mirror
"The title, Make Up, is chosen as it refers not only to the cosmetics we women apply on our faces, but also to other connotations--to fabricate, to supplement, to collect, to put together, to parcel, to put into shape, and to arrange-- all of which formed part of the procss in its making. Make Up looks at the notion of wholeness with reference to the obsession women to be or be seen as psychologically and physically sufficient. The mirror on the top of the box reflects the viewer's face, thus engaging/making him/her as a subject. Hence, the artwork questions a woman's need and her behavior in wanting to "fit in" through the act of supplementing her appearance with cosmetics. Is the woman's quest to Make Up her complete self destined to fail?" - Dorathy Lye
The Women Beyond Borders Art Collection includes over 900 self styled wooden boxes reflecting on a specific woman's self-identity using a variety of multi-media processes. Machuca has placed arrow like bullets on sides and lid while an image of a skeleton like figure lines the interior detailing the title of her title to Useless Deaths.
The Women Beyond Borders Art Collection includes over 900 self styled wooden boxes reflecting on a specific woman's self-identity using a variety of multi-media processes. Mara has covered her box in a woven geometeric pattern of brown, tan and cream colored material.
The Women Beyond Borders Art Collection includes over 900 self styled wooden boxes reflecting on a specific woman's self-identity using a variety of multi-media processes. Mara has covered her box in a woven geometeric pattern of brown, tan and cream colored material which is secured with a tied off knot.
The Women Beyond Borders Art Collection includes over 900 self styled wooden boxes reflecting on a specific woman's self-identity using a variety of multi-media processes. Mara has covered her box in a flat pattern of black and white stripes and triangles and has fashioned a set of earrings and a ring of the same materials.
The Women Beyond Borders Art Collection includes over 900 self styled wooden boxes reflecting on a specific woman's self-identity using a variety of multi-media processes. The artist has replicated an altar like structure by painting her box in gold which opens onto a gold heart positioned against a red ground. Attached at top is a candle like fixture.
Amazons of the Next Millenium, 1996
"As the title suggests, my box is a symbol of the Amazons, female warriors, who lived and fought together in a migratory way of life during the golden age. My box is filled with a series of women's names (two hundred) of all nationalities from antiquity to the present, printed in capital letters, in different colors on white paper tags. Each of the names brings into mind images of a woman we know, we read, we are, or we want to be. This box filled with names, which come out from all gour sides, becomes almost invisible and signifies the power, the strength, the importance, the influence and the voice we women could achieve working together, for our rights against violence and discrimination at the beginning of the next millenium." - Jenny Marketou
The Women Beyond Borders Art Collection includes over 900 self styled wooden boxes reflecting on a specific woman's self-identity using a variety of multi-media processes. The artist covered the box in tin and added cloud-like peices of tin to extend from the top. Artists signature on bottom.
The Women Beyond Borders Art Collection includes over 900 self styled wooden boxes reflecting on a specific woman's self-identity using a variety of multi-media processes. Artist has painted the box black and stood it upright; two doors open and inside are metal cut outs from tin with a gem in the center. Atop is a metal seated female figure wearing a crown of tin. Artist's signature at bottom.
The Women Beyond Borders Art Collection includes over 900 self styled wooden boxes reflecting on a specific woman's self-identity using a variety of multi-media processes. The artist has retained the original surface of the box and has embedded a darkened silhouetted figure on the interior.
The Women Beyond Borders Art Collection includes over 900 self styled wooden boxes reflecting on a specific woman's self-identity using a variety of multi-media processes. The artist has fashioned her box into a bible by replicating the volume of pages and the title inscription. The box, reminiscent of a hope chest, is a powerful symbol--- resonating, archetypal symbol of woman herself. The boxes express the hopes dreams, and conception of women and their quest for freedom of expression thoughout the world. WBB honors their vitality, wisdom, sensitivity and collective power -- Lorraine Serena, Founder/Director.
The Women Beyond Borders Art Collection includes over 900 self styled wooden boxes reflecting on a specific woman's self-identity using a variety of multi-media processes.The original box is sealed and painted, with the sides depicting a fleet of puffy clouds spreading across the bright-blue sky. The lid of the box has the image of two windows beginning to open towards the cloud, and in the clearing a red apple dangles from a rope. The original box is completely sealed in a translucent, plastic pyramid, accompanied by a small, single pearlescent shell that shares the same space.
Agua Para la Difunta Correa, Tierra, 1995
The Women Beyond Borders Art Collection includes over 900 self styled wooden boxes reflecting on a specific woman's self-identity using a variety of multi-media processes. This box has been enclosed with brown material secured with a leather string, tied on top.
"Born in Buenos Aires in 1936, Gloria Priotti studied at the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes Manuel Belgrano, graduating in 1959. She received the Beca Durero from the Fondo Nacional de las Artes and the German Academy for Cultural Exchange in 1975, after which she moved to Berlin, where she remained until 1983 and developed an intensive body of work in wood sculpture. She was invited by the Berlin Senate to participate in official competitions for the Applied Arts in Architecture. She exhibited in Argentina and abroad, and contributed to the renovation plans for the Technical University of Berlin in 1979. She held solo exhibitions at Galerías Lirolay, Carmen Waugh, Aldo de Sousa, Álvaro Castagnino, Atica, del Retiro and Atica, the Departamento de Artes de la Universidad Nacional de Tucumán, Art Gallery International de Buenos Aires, Gallerie Pohl in Berlin, Neue Galerie in Bochum (Germany), Kwarz Gruppe Galerie in Berlin, the Universidad Nacional de Concepción del Uruguay, and ArteBa, and participated in group exhibitions in Argentina and Germany. She received many prizes in salons in Argentina and abroad, including a competition to create a mural relief for a pedestrian tunnel in the Tempelhof district of Berlin in 1978; a prize for her bronze sculpture installed in the Berlin Sculpture Park in 1979; and a prize for her stainless steel, aluminum, and iron sculpture installed in a technical school in Berlin in 1981. She was awarded Second Prize in the Juril Clinic and Center for Art and Communication competition in 1988, and First Prize in Sculpture at the Entre Ríos Salon in 1991. Her work is associated with magical realism. Her figurative sculpture incorporates playful elements and fragments of the human figure, not always executed in the same material. Source: “Gloria Priotti.” Arte de la Argentina. Accessed February 25, 2026. https://artedelaargentina.com.ar/disciplinas/artista/escultura/gloria-priotti/."
The Women Beyond Borders Art Collection includes over 900 self styled wooden boxes reflecting on a specific woman's self-identity using a variety of multi-media processes. In Untitled #1, the artist has embellished her box in white beads with a red interior resembling that of a bed.
Clipboard, frame, framed photographs, wire, wood box, metal ornaments, ink on paper