Helina Metaferia - The American Scholar

Helina Metaferia - The American Scholar

For the past seven years, multidisciplinary artist Helina Metaferia has been “building an army of women,”—that is, mixed-media portraits of women activists and their descendants. These portraits make up a series called By Way of Revolution and were recently on view in a group show called “Facial Recognition” at the Jane Lombard Gallery in New York City. The project is her way of combatting the increasing public erasure of marginalized groups’ co…