BIRDS AND BEES 2026

JOHN SOMMERS GALLERY

ALBQUERQUE, NM

Birds and Bees is an exhibition of sculpture and photography that explores the female body as a site of reverence, not regulation. Often politicized, objectified, and misunderstood, the female form is reclaimed here as a source of connection to self, history, biology, and community.

This show invites viewers to unlearn shame and challenge inherited narratives around beauty, purity, and propriety. Every image represents a whole person, not an object.

In a time when female sexual health is increasingly politicized, Birds and Bees offers a space to reconnect, re-educate, and reclaim. Through intimate, sometimes confrontational works, it honors bodies that have bled, healed, birthed, and resisted—and insists that these stories deserve visibility, care, and respect.

This is more than an exhibition. It’s a call to action: to demand better education, policy, and cultural understanding; treating Feminine People not as vessels of shame, but as vessels of life.