Toronto-based artist Sara Golish’s Birds of Paradise series questions the symbolism of conventional oil portraiture through a lens of eco-feminism by depicting traditionally oppressed bodies with grace and dignity. Golish breathes new life into the traditional use of early modern portraiture, which were affluent women presented in ways that spoke more to men’s accumulation of wealth and status than to their own identities. 

Franklin G. Burroughs-Simeon B. Chapin Art Museum. 3100 S. Ocean Blvd. Wednesday, 10 a.m.–4 p.m. Free. (843) 238-2510, myrtlebeachartmuseum.org