Rich symbolism The women in Khosravi’s paintings are often depicted as bound by strings or concealed behind walls, flowers or hands in what she describes as a struggle for autonomy.

Connie Imboden’s photographs of women in water are becoming ever more abstract, and impressively so; here, perhaps to emphasize form over content, she has given them numerical titles ...

Hayv Kahraman’s paintings of Kurdish women at Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects are exceedingly delicate and subtle — until they’re not. Kahraman, herself a Kurdish refugee from Iraq ...

Arghavan Khosravi’s symbol-laden paintings, which often depict women with long, flowing hair bound by cords or shackles, allude to women’s rights issues that have recently sparked protests ...