As part of #internationalwomensday I thought I’d share new work crystalbridgesmuseum invited me to create an entirely new body of work that will run concurrently with the Venice Biennale - and I am calling it MATRICLYSM It centers Women’s stories- exploring feminine memory, erasure, and power - so thought I would reveal a few of the women I am celebrating in my paintings. These are small details from a series called CERAMONY(first slide) Einstein first wife : Mileva Marić, Albert (1875–1948) was a Serbian physicist and mathematician who was Albert Einstein’s first wife (1903–1919) and a fellow student at the Zürich Polytechnic. As the only woman in their class, she was a brilliant, promising scientist who collaborated with Einstein, leading to speculation that she contributed significantly to his 1905 “miracle year” papers, particularly on special relativity Zenobia (c. 240–c. 274 AD) was a 3rd-century queen of the Palmyrene Empire in Syria who famously led a revolt against the ...