Saturday, December 13, 2025 at 1:00 PM to Saturday, January 3, 2026 at 1:00 PM
Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles
Charlie James Gallery is pleased to present She Who Made Me, a group exhibition curated by Los Angeles–based artist, curator, and educator Mary Anna Pomonis. The exhibition opens in conjunction with her solo show She Who Holds the Sun at Charlie James Gallery. Together, the two exhibitions form an interrelated dialogue about loss, renewal, and lineage, rooted in Pomonis’s personal experience of the 2025 Eaton Fire, which destroyed an entire body of her paintings. The new works in She Who Holds the Sun were created as acts of reconstruction, rising from the fragments of that loss.She Who Made Me serves as the conceptual and emotional foundation for this process of recovery. The exhibition brings together artists who have profoundly shaped Pomonis’s artistic practice, including teachers, peers, and collaborators whose work embodies the matrilineal networks of influence and mentorship that sustain creative life.The curatorial framework takes inspiration from Amelia Jones’s landmark 1996 exhibition Sexual Politics at the Hammer Museum, which positioned Judy Chicago’s The Dinner Party as both anchor and provocation. In She Who Made Me, Pomonis extends this strategy, placing her own work in conversation with artists who have been central to her understanding of feminist practice, spirituality, and resilience.Part memory book and part devotional, She Who Made Me is an exhibition about artistic inheritance, connection, and the continuum of care that defines women’s creative histories. It asserts that no artist works alone; every act of creation is sustained by the voices, visions, and labors of those who came before.