Mount Rainier, Maryland—Bodies of Marvel, Monsters and Women, opens on September 4 – September 28, 2008 at the H&F Fine Arts Gallery located at 3311 Rhode Island Avenue, Mount Rainier, MD.  An opening reception will take place on Saturday, September 6, from 5-8pm.

Curated by Marvette Pérez and Tonya Jordan, eight women artists explore ideas of the grotesque and other worldly, the monstrous, the unimaginable, the uncanny, and the strange through painting, woodcut, installation, mixed media, video, photography, and illustration. Robbi Behr, Deidra Defranceaux, Andrea Meyers, Michelle Morby, Marta Pérez García, Kharlla Piñeiro, Raquel Quijano Feliciano and Lisa-Renee Thompson present work focused on the dark side of the human psyche and the humorous side of the grotesque.

Bodies of Marvel features internationally renowned artists from the East and West Coasts and Puerto Rico, who have exhibited in Europe, Latin America, the Caribbean, and the United States. From kinetic sculptures, Caribbean Baroque woodcuts of hybrid beings, a video game inhabited by women and their tormentors and victims, to images of mental hospitals; these artists force us to come to terms with disturbing and fantastical themes. From monsters and wondrous creatures, women with superpowers, culture bending Ganguros, and Possible Mothers—this exhibit showcases the magnificent talent of this group of female artists.

For this month long exhibit, the H&F Fine Arts Gallery will become a mythic territory where destroyers, tormentors, protectors, creators, hybrid creatures, and tortured souls challenge perceptions of personal truths and the dualities of creation and destruction.

For information contact Marvette Pérez at 240.535-0278/marvetteperez@verizon.net or Tonya Jordan at 202.297-1053/tjordan226@hotmail.com.