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Uncanny: Surreal Imaginings | Broad Strokes Blog | National Museum of Women in the Arts

Unearthly, enigmatic, and psychologically tense, the works in NMWA’s newest exhibition, Uncanny, give form to women artists’ powerful expressions of existential unease. Artists subvert gender stereotypes and explore feminist issues through disquieting spaces, fantastical figures, and technology that appears eerily human. With nearly seventy works spanning paint­ing, sculpture, works on paper, photography, and video, Uncanny is organized around t…