Breast in show! US artist uses imprints from 30 women’s chests to ‘celebrate ladies joining forces’
Art pieces from 30 Chicago women celebrate female empowerment; several breast cancer survivors are part of the project
Sixty breasts imprinted in paint will be displayed as part of a celebration of female empowerment in a River North art installation in Chicago.
The imprints, from 30 Chicago women who painted and imprinted their breasts, is part of an installation called “Awake and Rising”, which opens Thursday at a retail bed store.
It is part of the store’s “Dreaming of Design” event that showcases various bedroom vignettes.
Designer Emily Mackie said she came up with the idea after thinking through all of the women who have empowered her.
“I’ve found a lot in my career and personal life where joining forces with other women has gotten me really far,” Mackie said. “It was a celebration of that.”
A single mother of three, she said she has felt a great deal of support, professionally and personally, from other women. Some of those women are in the exhibit.
Mackie said not everyone was comfortable being in an art project that included baring her breasts.