Weird Sisters
Mildred I. Washington Gallery
February 23 - March 27, 2026
Opening Reception: February 25, 5-7pm
Curator Talk: February 23, 12:30 - 1:30pm
Curatorial Statement
This exhibition of three female-identifying artists, will be an exploration of monsters. Monsters from space, from other worlds, from imagination. Monsters in soft, pillowing pastels and ominous, glittering blues and blacks. These artists will attempt to understand where these monsters come from, what they represent, and how these monsters reflect internal feminine struggles.
Exhibiting Artists
Ana Maria Farina
Ana Maria Farina is a Brazilian artist now based in the Hudson Valley, New York. Farina’s work has been featured on New American Paintings, Hyperallergic, Highlands Current, I Like Your Work Podcast, Visionary Art Collective, and in venues around the world such as the SPRING/BREAK Art Fair, Future Fair, the Wassaic Project, the Garrison Art Center, the Dorsky Museum, Paradice Palase, Abigail Ogilvy, Susan Eley Fine Art, Woman Made Gallery, Woodstock Museum, Subject Matter Art Gallery (London, UK), and Casa de Criadores (SP, Brazil). Farina attended Columbia University and SUNY New Paltz for her graduate studies and she is the 2021 recipient of the national CAA Fellowship in Visual Arts.
Leslie Fandrich
Leslie Fandrich is an interdisciplinary artist who makes fabric sculptures and photo collages that have been cut up and re-mixed to make absurd juxtapositions. Connecting to the traditions of collage, sculpture, painting and photography, their Newburgh, NY studio practice is also deeply informed by feminist art history. Using clothing and various second-hand fabrics, Leslie uses machines and hand sews tongues, hands and colorful abstract shapes that are both familiar and strange, erotic and grotesque. The work occupies a space between comfort and discomfort, exploring how we may make new wholes from old parts.
Alisa Sikelianos-Carter
Alisa Sikelianos-Carter (she/her) is a Black, Queer mixed-media artist from upstate New York, born in Boynton Beach, Florida. Her practice is grounded in ancestral reverence, intuitive research, and visual theology. Guided by animism, mythopoetics, shadow work, and spiritual inheritance, she explores the psychic landscapes of the self alongside metaphysical terrains of connection and the unseen. Her work engages grief, loss, vulnerability, and transformation as emotional and energetic currents that inform how perception shifts and how time is felt in the body.
