Women and Her Symbols: Paintings by Becky Soria

Becky Soria’s figural paintings evoke universal symbols. Inspired by Paleolithic iconography and with a background in the biological sciences, Soria beautifully portrays the bodies of women and animals. She is concerned with intense emotions, bodily states, and peak experiences – love, fierce pain, despair, ecstasy, and discomfiture.

In her Jung Center exhibition, Women and Her Symbols, Soria ponders whether the female taps into the same or a potentially different collective unconscious than her male counterpart.

She also raises the question of whether the archetypal symbols of the collective unconscious undergo mutation or variation. Soria presents the evolutionary possibility of a collective unconscious struggling to evolve itself in a deconstructive technological epoch.

For more than 50 years, The Jung Center has served as a nonprofit resource offering dynamic and compelling classes – “continuing education for the human spirit” – on a diverse range of psychological, artistic, and intellectual topics.

The Jung Center’s building was originally designed as an art gallery and mounts approximately nine exhibits of work by both established and emerging artists each year. The Jung Center is an active member of the Houston Museum District. Admission to the gallery and opening receptions is free and open to the public.

This exhibit will be on display May 3-31, 2016 at the Jung Center, 5200 Montrose Blvd. The public is invited to an opening reception on Saturday, May 7, from 5:00-7:00 pm.

Pictured: The Moon is always female. (detail above, full image below).