Unstoppable XX at A Perfect Union Art Gallery in Ocoee brought together nearly a dozen female artists for Women’s History Month.
The exhibition combined individual experiences with portraits of influential women and broader reflections on identity, motherhood and storytelling.
Motherhood as lived experience
Natasha Radovicz Schaidt presented two works titled Liquid Gold, using images of colostrum milk against floral backgrounds to reflect on the contradictory emotions of motherhood.
Her recent work grew directly from life with her infant daughter, moving between gratitude, exhaustion, happiness and difficulty.
Portraits of women who shaped culture
Libby Smith painted Maya Angelou and Nina Simone as figures whose work preserved stories and experiences often absent from conventional histories.
Angelou appeared watching over a Black child, while Simone was placed against musical notation associated with Feeling Good.
The paintings carried particular weight because Smith was working while experiencing severe loss of vision.
The wider exhibition also included Patricia Byron, Linda Brant, Jolie Spelman, Jessica-King Rodriguez, Yve Nix, Janae Corrado, Marsha De Broske, Heather Gorlitz Scott and Cathy Hempel.
Unstoppable XX did not reduce women’s history to a single narrative. Instead, it used different artistic practices and personal references to show how history, identity and role models are carried through individual experience.