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Shows to see!

Elegant Nasty, feminist artist Yun Bai’s first solo show in Los Angeles opens September 13th at Bert Green Fine Art. Bai combines painting and collaged pornographic images to address the objectification of women and the reclaiming of female sexual power.

(Yun Bai, Money Tree w/ Good Luck Pussies, acrylic, porn, resin on wood, 2007. Courtesy: Bert Green Fine Art.)

On September 14th, Tracy Williams Ltd. presents Georgina Starr’s The Face of Another, works of various media dealing with confusion of and loss of identity.

(Georgina Starr, Theda (Act) 22, 2007. Image: Tracey Williams Ltd.)

A show of work by Global Feminisms and Feminist Art Base artist Regina Jose Galindo opens September 15th at Pari Nadimi Gallery in Toronto. At times labelled a “reenactment” artist, Galindo uses her body to reenact and reexamine historical events. This show is a solo exhibition of Galindo’s video, installation, and photographic work.

(Regina Jose Galindo, Carnada II, C print, 2006. Image: Pari Nadimi Gallery.)

There I Was, a show of work by Collier Schorr, opens September 15th at 303 Gallery. In this new work, Schorr uses drawings and photographs to address 1960’s American muscle car culture and the Vietnam War.

The first solo U.S. museum exhibition of Cologne-based artist Cosima Von Bonin, Roger and Out, opens September 16th at The Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles. Von Bonin uses a broad range of mediums to create her conceptual, feminist art that humorously deals with gender and cultural representations.

(Cosima Von Bonin, HUNDESCHULE/OBEDIENCE SCHOOL, 2004. Image: The Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles.)

I Am As You Will Be: The Skeleton in Art opens September 20th at Cheim and Read. This group show celebrates the skeleton as a memento mori as well as an object with a long history as artistic subject. The show includes work by Lynda Benglis, Louise Bourgeois, Jenny Holzer, Lady Pink, and Alice Neel.

(I Am As You Will Be: The Skeleton in Art installation view. Courtesy: Cheim and Read.)

Booty, a show of paintings by Julie Heffernan, opens September 20th at P.P.O.W. gallery. Heffernan’s paintings, rendered in a style miraculously evocative of both Surrealism and Rococco, typically depict a single, central female figure, or”self-portrait,” amid detailed background layers and piles of objects and animals.

(Julie Heffernan, Self Portrait with Men in Hats, oil on canvas, 2007. Courtesy: P.P.O.W.)

The first New York exhibition of Lalla Essaydi’s series of incredibly beautiful photographs, Les Femmes du Maroc, opens September 28th at Edwynn Houk Gallery. By placing her subjects in positions reminiscent of 19th Century Orientalist paintings and incorporating hand-written Islamic calligraphy throughout the scene, Essaydi suggests the complexity inherent in female identity within Morocco and the Muslim world.

(Lalla Essaydi, Les Femmes du Maroc #30, 2006. Courtesy: Edwynn Houk Gallery.)

A new show of work by Mithu Sen, Half Full Part I, dealing with the female image and women’s issues, opens September 28th at Bose Pacia.

Form of a Waterfall, drawings, video, and sound works by Sadie Benning, cofounder and former member of Le Tigre, are on view at Orchard gallery through October 7th.

Hannah Wilke’s Intra-Venus Tapes 1990-1993, premiers at Ronald Feldman Fine Arts through October 13th. Video documentation of the last two and a half years of Wilke’s life is displayed on 16 video monitors, alongside a collection of her prints, monographs, and photographs dating from 1987. During her career as a conceptual and feminist artist, Wilke developed a female iconography based on organic and vaginal shapes. To read more about Wilke, visit her page in the Feminist Art Base.

(Intra-Venus Tapes 1990-1993 exhibition announcement. Courtesy: Ronald Feldman Fine Arts.)

Closing…

A show of collage work by British artist Linder closes September 24th at P.S.1 MoMA. Linder was involved in and aesthetically influenced by the punk and post-punk music scenes and, interestingly, designed the album cover for the Buzzcock’s Orgasm Addict.

(Linder, Pretty Girl Series, 2006. Image: P.S.1 MoMA.)