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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