Becoming Her

Whitestone Gallery is pleased to present Becoming Her, a group exhibition that brings together the practices of Rebecca Bernau, Azuki Furuya and Shizuka Ando—three artists who approach the figure not as a fixed subject, but as a site of transformation. Across painting, collage, and hybrid processes, their works unfold a quiet yet persistent inquiry into how the self is formed: through memory, through material, and through the unseen forces that shape perception and belonging. The exhibition title, Becoming Her, references a philosophical and feminist framework in which identity is understood as a process rather than a fixed state. Echoing Simone de Beauvoir's seminal assertion that womanhood is not innate but constructed, the exhibition situates the female subject as an evolving condition—one informed by lived experience, cultural context, and embodied memory. Presented together, the works of Ando, Furuya, and Bernau articulate a shared sensitivity to the unseen dimensions of identity. Through their distinct approaches to form and material, they offer a space for reflection on the complexities of becoming—where the figure is not defined by what is visible, but by what remains in flux.