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Openings…

This year’s Goteborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art, (August 25th through November 25th) in Goteborg, Sweden, is entitled Rethinking Dissent – on the limitations of politics and the possibilities of resistance. It includes artists such feminist artists as Lida Abdul, Jenny Holzer, and Mandana Moghaddam.

(AES, Action Half Life Warriors, 2005-2006, sculptures in bronze, Courtesy: artist and Triumph Gallery, Moscow, Photo: Vlad Loktev.)

Body Double, opened August 25th at the Luckman Gallery in L.A., and features photo and video work by 16 emerging female artists who have incorporated their own images into their art.

The Secret Rooms of the Dirt Palace also opened on August 25th at Hera Gallery, in Wakefield, RI. This show is a collaboration between Hera Gallery and The Dirt Palace, a feminist art collective located in Providence, RI.

Opening September 2nd, Pain in Soul:Performance Art and Video Works by He Chengyao at The Shanghai Zendai Museum of Modern Art in Shanghai, China. Check out more work by  He Chengyao, who was also in Global Feminisms, in our Feminist Art Base.

Bahname, a show of works by Canan Senol opens September 5th at MASA, in Istanbul. The word “bahname” is a combination of “bah,” the Arabic term for sexual desire and potency, and “name,” a Farsi term for book or booklet. This show confronts historic, male interpretations of female sexual desire.

Voyages, a solo show of work by Joyce Kozloff, opens September 6th at DC Moore Gallery. Kozloff addresses the phenomenon of western expansion throughout history and in the present. Be sure to peruse the catalog which contains an essay by Lucy R. Lippard. Voyages:Time Travel, a concurrent show of Kozloff’s prints, opens September 8th at Solo Impression.

(Joyce Kozloff, Now/Later, 2007, Courtesy: DC Moore Gallery.)

U Can’t Touch Dis: The New Asian Art at ZONE: Chelsea Center for the Arts, opening September 6th, features work, in a variety of mediums, by 18 young artists, many of whom have not yet shown in New York. The “New Asian Artists,” from “across Asia and the Asian diaspora in the West” transcend class, race, and gender boundaries to defy preconceptions of an Asian aesthetic. The show includes work by feminist artists Yun Bai and Ramya Ravisankar (our former intern!).

(Lisha Bai, Mirror Series [Square], 2005, Courtesy: ZONE: Chelsea Center for the Arts.)

Undercurrents, a show of recent sculptures by Martha Walker at the artist-run 440 Gallery opens September 6th. Walker’s work displays a consciousness of feminist issues. Her metal sculptures are often anthropomorphically feminine.

Venus at Her Mirror, a solo show and U.S. debut of paintings by Swedish artist Ylva Ogland opens September 6th at Smith-Stewart. Ogland depicts herself at 11 years old, amid children’s toys and drug paraphernalia alike.

(show invite, Courtesy: Smith-Stewart Gallery)

Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects presents the work of Kunie Sugiura in Sex and Nature: Works from 1969 to 1971 and The Artist Papers. This will be the first exhibition of Sugiura’s series of erotic images. As monumentally-scaled, sexual images made by a young woman, these works were considered radical at the time they were made. Opens September 6th.

(Kunie Sugiura, Untitled 2, 1970, photograph, graphite on canvas. Courtesy: Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects.)

Leather and Lace, a collaboration by Allison March and Ariana Page Russell, opens September 6th at Soil Artist-Run Gallery in Seattle. By transforming themselves into female pop and punk icons of the 70’s and 80’s, the artists address issues of image, persona, and surface.

(Allison March and Ariana Page Russell. Image: Soil Gallery.)

Andrea Zittel’s Smockshop opens September 7th at Susan Inglett Gallery. In the spirit of her concepts for sustainable living, Zittel has provided a group of artists with a basic pattern and asked them to create a “smock” for everyday wear. The smocks will be for sale at “ready-to-wear” prices.

(Courtesy: Susan Inglett Gallery.)

Where She Stops, a solo show of paintings by Natalie Frank, opens September 6th at Mitchell-Innes & Nash. Frank’s paintings explore relationships of power among groups of ambiguous, often grotesque figures.

(Natalie Frank, The Stammerer, oil on canvas, 2007. Courtesy: www.artnet.com)

Material Matter: American Abstract Artists, a group show curated by Kat Griefen, director of A.I.R. Gallery, the world’s first women’s art co-op, opens September 8th at Sideshow Gallery of Brooklyn. The featured abstract artists’ unconventional materials and forms indicate an openness to difference.

Closings…

Don’t miss Circa 70: Lynda Benglis and Louise Bourgeois, closing August 31st at Cheim and Read. The show juxtaposes Benglis’ and Bourgeois’ work made mostly between the years 1967 and 1974.

(Lynda Benglis, untitled; plaster, fabric, and spray paint; 1972. Courtesy: Cheim and Read.)

Substance and Surface, also closing August 31st, at Bortolami includes work by Global Feminisms: Remix artist Ghada Amer.

(Installation view, from left to right: Ghada Amer Black Torment, 2005, Embroidery and gel medium on canvas. Ghada Amer Black Absence, 2005, Embroidery and gel medium on canvas. Piero Golia Untitled (12 x 30 in. Monochrome), 2007, Painted wood and wood pedestal. Jim Lambie Y-Footo, 2002, Mattress and silver vinyl tape. Courtesy: Bortolami Gallery.)

Sultana’s Dream: South Asian Women’s Creative Collective (SAWCC) 10th Anniversary Exhibition closes August 31st at Exit Art.

*My thanks to our intern, Pia Howell, for researching all these amazing shows!*