the venus cycle

Collagraph Collages

The Venus Cycle explores the reality of the older woman’s body, un-idealized and imprinted with life’s experiences, Society’s emphasis on female beauty as youthful and slender belies what women see when they look in the mirror and discounts the grace and strength of older women’s bodies. With a brazen acceptance, Grabel normalizes the changing seasons of the female form.

The collages of collagraph prints and combination of prints and sculptures provide another way of echoing the aging female form and celebrating it through repetition and joyful use of color.