The Kravets/Wehby Gallery is pleased to announce the group exhibition The Edible Woman including new work by Nina Chanel Abney, Dhruvi Acharya, Sydney Chastain-Chapman, Sara Rahbar, Aya Uekawa, Mariëtte van der Ven, Katayoun Vaziri opening on Thursday, October 22 and running through November 25, 2009.

Margaret Atwood’s 1969 novel The Edible Woman provides inspiration for the exhibition including a new generation of vocal artists coming of age in a global culture. Nina Chanel Abney and Sydney Chastain-Chapman have created a monstrous collaborative “Alice in Wonderland” tea party with diverse portraits of both artists in attendance. Dhruvi Acharya’s lustrous women lend insight into her own psyche living and working in her native Mumbai. Sara Rahbar personally documents staged scenes in an elaborate palace abandoned after the Revolution in Tehran. Aya Uekawa’s contemplative women bridge the East/West divide insightful of her upbringing in Tokyo and her current home in New York. Mariëtte van der Ven’s mysterious sculpture of androgynous human forms simultaneously exhibits both fragility and stability. Katayoun Vaziri creates a multi-paneled work indicative of her interest in how individuals come of age amidst a plethora of political turmoil in the Middle East.