Interior Lives: Reconstructing the Feminine
Lisa Krannichfeld, Karen Mainenti, Corran Shrimpton
June 12 - July 25, 2026
Artist Talk: Corran Shrimpton in coversation with curator Garth Johson, Everson Museum
This group exhibition brings together three artists who challenge and reframe traditional narratives around female representation, domestic space, beauty, and the body. Through painting, sculpture, and installation, the artists examine how ideas of femininity are shaped by consumer culture, beauty products, advertising, domestic space, and expectations surrounding women’s bodies and roles.
The artists' varied depictions of the feminine reveal how it is created from lived experience, material culture, and visual language. Their work examines how identity is negotiated and reshaped, offering a nuanced view of the ways women's lives are constructed and expressed across different spaces, forms and experiences.
Lisa Krannichfeld combines Chinese ink, watercolor, collage, and poured resin, replacing traditional varnish with a glossy surface that intensifies color and depth. In her Girls and Guise series, Krannichfeld counters hypersexualized depictions of women through faceless figures dressed in patterned, dandy-like attire incorporating recurring lion and tiger motifs. Bruised knuckles, clenched fists, and assertive postures point to the subjects’ strength and a refusal to conform to prescribed notions of femininity.
Using found vintage bottles, jars, and discarded containers, Karen Mainenti repurposes them into installation assemblages that evoke mid-20th century beauty products and cosmetic packaging, investigating the intersection of consumer culture and the beauty industry. Referencing archival advertising and product branding directed at women, she explores how ideals of femininity are manufactured, marketed, and sold.
Drawing from casts of her own body, Corran Shrimpton combines wheel-thrown elements, molds, and hand-built forms into hybrid sculptures that blur the boundaries between functional ceramics and figurative sculpture. Ranging from singular forms to bodies that are compressed, contorted, and intertwined, her works confront the societal pressures imposed on women, including diminished agency over their own bodies and the pursuit of unattainable beauty standards.
Lisa Krannichfeld (b. 1983) lives in Little Rock, Arkansas. Selected exhibitions include The Other Art Fair, Chicago, IL; Historic Arkansas Museum, Little Rock, AR; Retrospect Galleries, Byron Bay, NSW, Australia and Wingate Museum of Art, Conway, AR. She has received awards, residencies and fellowships, from the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Women United Art Prize and the Irene Rosenzweig Biennial Exhibition, Hot springs National Park, Mid-America Art Alliance and Arkansas Arts Council. Her work has been published in Milk Art Journal, Art Seen, Saatchi Art Magazine, The Moth, Studio Visit Magazine and The Jealous Curator.
Karen Mainenti (b. 1974) lives in New York, NY. Selected solo and group exhibitions include SPRING/BREAK Art Show, New York, NY; Bard Graduate Center Library, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY; Ground Floor Gallery, Brooklyn, NY; Every Woman Biennial. LaMaMa Galleria. New York. NY and Louise Nevelson Chapel, New York, NY. Mainenti has been an Artist-in-Residence at Estudio Corazón, Ghost Ranch, Abiquiu, NM, the Bard Graduate Center Library, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY and the School of Visual Arts, New York, NY. Her work has been featured in ARTnews, Artnet News, Hyperallergic, and The Believer Magazine.
Corran Shrimpton (1996) was born in Syracuse, NY and lives in Sommerville, MA. Selected solo exhibitions include Mudflat Studio, Somerville, MA: Ernest G Welch Gallery, Atlanta, GA; Lillstreet Art Center, Chicago, IL and The Armory Art Center, West Palm Beach, FL. Selected group exhibitions include NCECA Richmond, VA; ArtFields, Lake City, SC; Saratoga Arts, Saratoga Springs, NY; Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL and The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA. Shrimpton has been Artist-in-Residence at The Armory Art Center, West Palm Beach, FL; Lillstreet Art Center, Chicago, IL and Mudflat Studios in Somerville, MA. She is the recipient of the Mass Cultural Council Grant for Creative Individuals, the Lisa Elwell Ceramic Artist Endowed Encouragement Award and ArtFields Merit Award.