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Check out more Global Feminisms artists having solo shows…

• Julika Rudelius’ show, Forever, featuring a video installation and a selection of Polaroids runs through July 14th 2007 at Swiss Institute, New York. In Forever, which she filmed in the Hamptons, Rudelius casts five American women who pose for the camera in manicured backyards as they are interviewed on topics ranging from beauty and privilege to plastic surgery and aging. She showed clips and spoke about the work during her artist talk at our opening—check it out! (Image: Julika Rudelius, still from Forever, 2006. Courtesy of the artist)

• Also Sonia Khurana’s exhibition, Still Moving Image, runs through July 28th at Jousse Entreprise gallery, in Paris, in collaboration with Enrico Navarra Gallery. It is the artist’s first solo exhibition in France. The gallery invited Sonia to develop and produce a new piece or body of work to show in the gallery within the larger context of her recent works.

Some other cool shows to see that feature amazing feminist artists are…

• 2 x 4 featuring work by Janine Antoni, Georg Herold, Reinhard Mucha and Rachel Whiteread at Luhring Augustine running through June 16th. You can also see Janine’s profile on our Feminist Art Base! (Image: Janine Antoni, Grope, 1990, pockets from men’s work pants. Courtesy of the artist and Luhring Augustine Gallery)

• Florence Lynch Gallery is featuring video work by Gabriele Stellbaum through June 16th.

• Lehmann Maupin Gallery is having the first NY solo exhibition for the Japanese artist Mr. (exhibition of the same name) running through June 23rd.

• Another exhibition opening this week is June Bride at Yossi Milo Gallery featuring works by Diane Arbus, Nan Goldin, Nikki S. Lee and Loretta Lux, among others. The show, which provides an uncommon look at a common practice, the marriage ceremony, in an assembly of unconventional wedding photographs, opens June 7th (reception from 6-8pm) and runs though August 17th.

• Also, check out, Let’s Rock, featuring the video and animation works of Itziar Barrio, curated by Chavisa Woods, at A Gathering of the Tribes Gallery in the Lower East Side. (Image: Itziar Barrio, still from the video Let’s Rock, 2007. Courtesy of Tribes Gallery.)

• If you can take a trip to Woodstock, I would recommend seeing the exhibition curated by Nancy Azara at the Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild, Paths Real and Imagined, where 30 sculptors, mostly from the Catskill region (and mostly women), were invited to design what they perceived to be a path of any kind on the grounds. I was thrilled to see that a former professor of mine, Gillian Jagger, will be installing work! This is an amazing opportunity to see her work as her pieces are usually quite large and thus are too infrequently shown. The exhibit opens June 9th and runs through October 8th, 2007. (Image: Nancy Azara, Time/Path, 2007. Courtesy of the artist.)

• If you can take a trip to California, I would check out Women Artists Then + Now at Track 16 Gallery, Bergamont Station, in Santa Monica. The show features such artists as Leslie Labowitz, Robin Mitchell, June Wayne, Faith Wilding and Harriet Zeitlin, to name a few, and closes June 30th with a panel discussion from 7-9pm.

• And if you find yourself in Germany…The Martha Rosler Library opened June 2nd at the seminar/residency program, unitednationsplaza, in Berlin, and is comprised of approximately 7,700 titles from the artist’s personal collection. The Library, which traveled from a storefront setting on Ludlow St. in NYC, in 2005, to Frankfurter Kunstverein and MuHKA, Antwerp, will remain on view in Berlin through August 31st and will then travel to Institut national d’histoire de l’art in Paris in November. There is no borrowing, only on-site research and events, such as live readings from the collection. The bibliography, currently in process, can be accessed online. Read more about this exciting project.

Finally, we’d like to belatedly thank the Tate Modern for their initiative to “rectify the gender gap” in their collection. An article by Arifa Akbar, in The Independent, published coincidentally on the week of the opening of the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, describes the Tate’s drive to purchase more work by women as one that seeks to address areas where women artists may have historically been neglected. Read more…