Women Beyond Borders Art Collection founded by Lorraine Serena
ROSSETTI-JOHNSON, Willow
"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
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
Wood box, gauze, toy parts, circuit board
SERRANO, Fernande Carrión
Wood box, paint, photographs, fabric, plastic dolls, metal ornament
"My work is completely visceral. Each work or piece that I create is born from an experience or event that has marked my life. For me, it holds the meaning of a ritual of celebration, offering, thankfulness, or prayer. In this sense, I believe that it is profoundly religious. It is my way of struggling with the world, to become cleansed." - Fernande Carrión Serrano
DAVIES, Rosalind Damaris
"Where Granvail, Irish Sea Queen resided 1530-1603." - Rosalind Damaris Davies
"There is one thing that is so much a part of our lives... the thatched-roof cottage. No matter where we live, we conjure up images of our cottages when we get homesick. They are remnants left behind by our ancestors from a long time ago. They are features of the natural beauty of the Vietnamese countryside. Do you know that although they are made of simple, natural materials such as different types of bamboo and palm leaves, they have covered us during rainy and sunny seasons. Some of the houses are built on stilts to protect us from against floods and the attack of wild animals in the night." - Thanh Van Tran
Wood box, filling, velvet, sweing trim, crocheted pouch
Wood box, wood, colored pencil, wire mesh
"My box sculpture represents my past and my hopes and dreams for the future. Now I am caught in the middle as I work in Singapore as a domestic help. It is the thought of my children back home in the Philippines (that's why their picture is here) and my dream of having my own restaurant in Manila that keeps me going." - Anunciación Y. Paras
"This is a memorial to all in my country, Guatemala, who have never received a proper burial, and were not only insanely murdered by the army of their own country, but then were piled up in clandestine cemeteries, so that their loved ones could never come and be with them. And the epitaph (THE WISH) reads as follows: Oh! Please give us a tomb! a tomb for our souls, for our poor bodies, so sore and tough from that volcanic lime! We plead you, we implore you, dear God, dear people, dear brothers, little brothers and sisters, give us a tomb, a safe tomb, with shroud made of sweetness, a place to console us, a nice place, to erase the infamy, a beautiful tomb, for us!" - Veronique Simar
Wood box, plaster, doll socks and shoes, plastic flowers
Wood box, barkcloth, coconut fiber, sea shells, paint
Wood box, metal hinge and closure, collage, fabric, filling, thread
Wood box, paint, metal figurine, beads, lace
Wood box, metal hinges, feathers, beads, polymer clay, straw
NEDELJKOVIĆ, Borislava Prodanović
"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
Wood box, paint, poster board, string, wood, metal ornament
"In these devastating times of deliberate, pitiless destruction of homes, history and peoples, I defiantly built an edifice of stone to celebrate the future. It is a shrine, a shelter, an obelisk for all those people and countries whose future has been brutally marred and who are denied the chance of generating personal and collective memories. For, as every stone touches another stone, so does memory--it is created by an ageless, unbreakable bond between the past, present, and future. The stones used are ancient Byzantine mosaice cubes collected from near an archaeological site in Palestine. The mortar to fix the cubes together is an old Palestinian building recipe." - Vera Tamari
de CARRIERI, Leonor Rigau
Constructivismo Deconstructivismo, 1995
Incoming loan, Courtesy of Frank and Lorraine Serena
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.
Clipboard, frame, framed photographs, wire, wood box, metal ornaments, ink on paper
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
Wood box, dyed sand, needles, beads, fabric, ribbon
VON DEN STEINEN, Cordelia
Incoming loan, Courtesy of Frank and Lorraine Serrena
"The making of this … box afforded me the opportunity to reflect on and celebrate the many wonderful and precious things given to me by women; artists, friends, colleagues, and strangers whom I will never meet, who share like souls… To the Ngarrindjeri* Woman who taught me how to weave, and gave me a part of her culture… To the Women who nurtured and encouraged my talents and refused to let me give up… To the communities of Women who have taken part in Women Beyond Borders… Thank you." – Diana Robson * The Ngarrindjeri are indigenous people from Southern Australia. They traditionally wove to make traps and baskets in which to gather, store, and carry their food and bury their dead. Today few Ngarrindjeri know how to weave.
A Prayer for Transformation, 1996
“Beyond destruction, jealousy, rage, hatred, separation, revenge. Toward creation, compassion, reconciliation, transformation.” – Lorraine Serena
PUCCINELLI DESIGN STUDIO
Magnifico, Paseo Nuevo Poster, 1990
Angular depiction of a dolphin leaping over an orange tree, with the words "MAGNIFICO! The Treasures of Paseo Nuevo. Novermber 1990." Maker details at lower right: Signed by Puccinelli. Includes a mylar sheet.
Gift of the Estate of Frances Garvin and Keith Julius Puccinelli
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 uses a pastel colored seascpe and fruit with SHABNAM CLASS (1) FACULTY OF ART is written on the 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. In Untitled #2, the artist illustrates water in pastels with black representing trees and mountains.
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. 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. In Untitled, Farahmand uses a flat pattern design of ciruclar forms in yellows, blues and greens 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 #1, the artist has embellished her box in white beads with a red interior resembling that of a bed.
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, Shekeba uses a flat pattern design in reds and blacks 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 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. The artist has created an eye-like structure with nails and organic 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. 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.
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.
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.
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.
Untitled, 1995 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 has placed this box on its side, the lid slid open held in place by a hand created to resemble a bookend. 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 artist has placed the box on a platform with various marble-like pieces positoned inside the box; the lid is propped on its side.
VALDIVIESO, Laura Cristina
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 this box into a display case by elevating the lid supported by transparent material with a sculptural-like structure inside.
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 red and attached a pleated accordian like structure spread across the interior attached with a red string.
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 darken her box to appear burned; lid is open with spent matches and a mirror is on the underside of the lid. On the end is written a CONFIRMATION AND DISCOVERY OF WITHCRAFT.
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. 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. 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. 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 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. 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.
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.
We Are This and That and...n, 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. The artist has fashioned her box with facial photographic images and a tape measure.
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 painted in bright colors with a sun's face on underside of lid while rock-like forms populate the front.
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 artist has painted her box in bright yellows and oranges with a woman's full silhouette on the interior with a torso image on the underside of the lid. 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 artist has replicated a box carrying artistic supplies and drawing pads for possible use in the bush.
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 the words Keep Pacific Nuclear Free on the lid with buttons on the front and sides. Interior is striped in red set against a deeper shade of brown.
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 detailed on the interior and exterior with pastel colored fragments representing Hawaii as the title suggests.
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 embellished her box with pink colored fake rhinestones on the exterior interspersed with words more closely associated with women such as cellulite. There is also a hairdryer, rollers and a pink shoe.
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. This box has been wrapped in gold with a printed message on the interior discussing passivity.
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.
Gebdelt - Bundled - Focused, 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. The artist has painted her box white; an open red and green book sits at the center with red and green threads.
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 white and detailed the exterior with hash marks representing the number five; the interior houses a series of colored hair-like forms. 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. Rosalia has retained the natural look of the box while it is perched on foam.
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 natural condition of the box but has inserted carved media with the word LETTNER.
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. Reflecting an auto race, this box carries a black and white checkered motif enclosing two drivers changing tires. The word PITSTOP is painted white on lower 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. Covered with black and white fabric, this box includes black, white and red attachments extending from 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. Arvo Tree has been left untreated on the exterior while the interior is filled with a plastic bag and what appears to be seeds.
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 picnic area from the box lid while the remainder of the box includes a mermaid flanked with candles and food.
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.
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.