Changes which directly contributed to the acceptance of women's imagery can directly from Woman House, a project co-directed by Miriam Schapiro in the early 70s, which deconstructed the myth of women's lives. Schapiro talked about the days before moving to California with her husband Paul Brach and their son. After a while, the collaborations produced a burn out and Schapiro returned to the studio alone. More recent imaginary collaborators include Russian matrons Popova, Sonia Delauney, and Exeter. Schapiro kept looking into history and wondered about the women who had owned the things she would buy at yard sales, often to use in her work.
Works contain a challah cover, a reference to Chagall.
These started last year. In this writer's opinion, this treatment of Jewish identity seems appropriate and is welcomed. The woman artist in the center is a mess. There is an artist father and a female dancer moving away. There is a new mother in Sonia Delaunay.