Daughters and Goddesses

In her playfully ironic series The Goddess in Every Woman Susanne MacKay recasts herself as various classical deities such as Aphrodite, Athene and Hera, in order to explore afresh the archetypes of beauty, worth and wisdom. These paintings, completed in 1993, are twinned with an earlier group of portraits titled Musume/Daughters to provide a gentle meditation on youth, motherhood and middle-age. This exhibition has received funding from the Saskatchewan Arts Board.