Launch Gallery is proud to present solo exhibitions by Cindy Craig and Leigh Salgado, whose work honors femininity while examining women’s roles and stereotypes in contemporary society with ornate, symbolic, humorous and sometimes dark paintings and mixed media creations.

Cindy Craig’s new series of paintings and mixed media creations titled Weeping women examines beauty, desire and the cost of being seen. Cindy asks, “What does it mean to be a woman in a society that never stops telling her how she should look.”

"Weeping women is an evocative exploration of femininity, beauty, and the often unspoken emotional toll of society’s expectations. Through surreal imagery, playful symbolism, and poignant juxtapositions, the exhibition examines the tension between a women’s inner self and the roles she is encouraged - or compelled - to perform.

Weeping women speaks not only to sorrow, but to the quiet contradictions of being seen and understood. Beneath the ornaments, the advertisements, and the carefully constructed appearances are women negotiating the distance between who they are and who the world wants them to be. At once satirical, tender and unsettling, Weeping women invites viewers to look beyond the surface and reflect on the pressures that shape feminine identity, the innocence that precedes them and the rediscovering of self that exists beyond the gaze of others."

(C.C.)