Anya Roberts-Toney’s “Soft Curses” at Stephanie Chefas Projects.
Currently on view at Stephanie Chefas Projects in Portland, Oregon is artist Anya Roberts-Toney’s solo exhibiton, “Soft Curses.”
In her latest collection of work, Roberts-Toney explores feminine power and the hope she experiences through both witnessing and embracing that power. Consequently, her paintings come imbued with formidable energy, the kind of which invokes a perennial sense of much-needed change.
“A curse is a spell that lingers. It’s a means for a ritual. A tool for a conjuring. Capable of hope. The supposition of power.”, states Roberts-Toney. “The paintings in this series begin with the premise of hope and the simple shape of a horizontal ring of flowers, or sometimes just the ring itself. The ring has a feminine quality, and I think of it as a location for ritual or a space for transformation. I don’t know exactly what the ritual will bring, or what will arise from the transformation, but I hope that it is something good.”
The exhibition is on view until January 25th, 2019.
