The 2017 Mommie Dearest Exhibition

©Ellen Cantor, Mom and the Meatballs, Laguna Woods, CA

©Nancy McCrary, Mother with Daddy’s cane, 2012, Molena, Georgia

©Abby Quinlisk, Closure, Rochester, NY

@Mara Zaslove, Helene, Culver City, CA

© Hannah Kozak He Threw the Last Punch Too Hard, Los Angeles, CA

©Deanna Dikeman, Putting on earrings, 4/2017, Sioux City, Iowa

©Yelena Zhavoronkova, Mom, St. Petersburg, Russia

©Alice Hargrave, Alice in The Badlands, or Kodachrome Mama, Chicago, IL

©Simon King, Mother-to-be, London, UK

©Sara Silks, I Still Have Her Cashmere Sweater, but I Wear it Differently, Overland Park, KS

© Robbie McClaran, Mom in Her Back Yard, 1999, Pine Bluff, Arkansas

©Miguel Ángel Bejarano, Mater Terra, Los Angeles, CA

@Rebecca Martinez, Mom in the Spotlight, MOMA New York, NY

©Stephanie Sydney, “Constructing Joyce” Century City, CA and England

©Sean-Andrew Zeus Pyle, Minerva in 2013, Before Things Changed, Old Greenwich, CT

©Cristina Maxwell, The Poster Child for My Stay at Home Mother, Groveland, CA

©saiful amin kazal, three generations, Dhaka , Bangladesh

©Karen Bell, Looking Back, Westhampton Beach, NY
” She is my dearest. Still with me.”

©maureen haldeman, Just the Two of Us, Saint Adele, Quebec

©Gregory Drew, Mom in the Living Room, Wilmington, NC, 1981

©Marcela Olsen, Nueve Lunas, Payson, UT

©Gerhard Clausing, My Mother Alma (left), With Her Sisters Lena and Anna, 1930s, Riga, Latvia

©Judi Iranyi, My mother Klara, Mannheim, Germany

©Lisa McCord, Nancy Sherwood Ohlendorf, Portrait for Delta Review Magazine, NY, NY

©Jane Szabo, Mom Baking Bread, Bellevue, WA
In celebration of my mother, who just turned 92, and sadly, can no longer make her amazing breads.

©Blue Leaf von Muller, Mamita Bambolina, Virginia Beach, VA

© JP Terlizzi, Pink Slippers from the series Mother, Bridgwater, NJ

©Vicky Stromee, Our Moms, Tucson, AZ

©Amy Friend, The only time I saw Mom on horseback. Taken from Super 8 film, Niagara, Canada

©Gina Costa, My First Art Teacher, Modena, Italy

©Rachel Jump, Mother, Gardening, 2015

©Benjamin Dimmitt, Hanging Show, Clearwater, FL

©Adrienne Villar, Role Model, Arkansas

©Paul Matzner, Mom 2016, Milwaukee, WI

© Suzanne Révy, Self-Portrait with Mom, 2015, Panama City Beach, Florida

©Peter Ydeen, Two Mothers, Two Babies, Rissani, Morocco

© Tom M Johnson, Irene, Lakewood, CA

©Eleonora Ronconi, Emma, Carlos y yo, Buenos Aires, Argentina

©Russ Rowland. Myth of Mom, New York, NY

©Cheryl Clegg, Mom, at my house

©Gerry Giliberti, Mom’s 80th, Zoranne City, NY

©Sean Johnson, Missy, Genoa, NE

©Justin Levesque, Bonnie, Waterboro, ME
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