The word resilience is derived from the Latin verb resilire, meaning to jump back or to recoil, akin to a human being's ability to bounce back after one of life's impactful challenges. The curators of resilire have assembled a group of six female artists from diverse cultural backgrounds whose art embodies the resilience they have cultivated through their life experiences.

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Exhibiting Artists:

Sandy Bleifer, is an accomplished Los Angeles native, artist and social activist. Her engagement with personal, psychological, social, and even political matters is constant and unflagging. Each series she generates focuses on a different concern, allowing her concentrate on her inner self and her experiences; how humans relate to one another; or, at yet another time to contemplate the beauty and fragility of the world.

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Kyomi Fukui Nannery, American artist and educator of Japanese-Korean heritage, projects noticeable traces of ecosophy, advocating for respect toward our relationship with nature. Her works revolve around the idea of emotional connections in human experience — loss, grief, yearning for belonging. She works with printmaking, drawing, natural dye, and at times social interactions. 

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Francesca Lalanne, who spent part of her childhood in Haiti, has built a multidisciplinary practice investigating the relationship between the physical and psychological wounds that impact both our individual and collective experiences. The Los Angeles-based artist weaves together sculpture, installation, and painting into works that illuminate the critical topics of our time.

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Amandine Nabarra has guided audiences within a visual narrative framework, encouraging them to immerse themselves in personal experiences and memories. Her autobiographical work revolves around themes of transformation—loss, reinvention, resilience and memories, addressing the universal aspects of our shared humanity.

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Soheila Siadate, was born and raised in Iran. She completed her BFA in fiber art from California State University of Long Beach, where she has made her home. Many of her fiber art projects are translated into large format paintings, sculpture and installations. Numerous themes found in Soheila's work today can be tied to her youthful years growing up in a dysfunctional family and society.

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Jane Szabo, a Los Angeles-based conceptual artist, merges a love for fabrication and materials with visceral photographic images. Using hand-made constructions, self-portraiture, and still life, she shares stories that explore her personal experiences through an astonishing lens of self-exploration and identity.