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Opening…

Sustaining Vision: A Tribute to Arlene Raven opens March 5th at the Harold B. Lemmerman Gallery of New Jersey City University. Eight female artists have collaborated to organize a multimedia exhibition in honor of the late feminist art historian and critic Arlene Raven. In 1973, along with Judy Chicago and Sheila de Bretteville, Raven co-founded the Feminist Studio Workshop at the Woman’s Building in Los Angeles. Later in the 1970’s, Raven also helped launch Chrysalis magazine, was a founder of the Women’s Caucus for Art, and initiated the Lesbian Art Project. An artists panel will be held on March 18th, 5:30-7 p.m.; the exhibition runs through April 16th.

(Photograph of Arlene Raven taken by F. Stop Fitzgerald. Courtesy: New Jersey City University, The Harold B. Lemmerman Gallery.)

Through the Looking Glass-Tattoos & Kimonos, paintings by Janice Urnstein Weissman, opens March 6th at Jenkins Johnson Gallery’s New York location. In her work, Weissman exploits a tension between the photo-realistic rendering of her subjects’ bodies and the mystical, other-worldly nature of her subjects’ tattoos. The resultant painting-within-a-painting effect is further elaborated when juxtaposed with another of Weissman’s key elements, highly patterned kimonos.

(Janice Urnstein Weissman, Tattoo VIII, 2002. Courtesy: Janice Urnstein Weissman.)

Now Open…

Elizabeth Dee Gallery hosts the debut of Adrian Piper’s most recent, on-going body of work entitled Everything. Piper is well-known for her early career as a first-generation conceptual artist who dealt with contemporary social and political issues of race, sex, and class. In this new series, Piper’s work centers specifically on the phrase “Everything will be taken away.” In addition to its obvious conceptual implications, the mantra is technically manifested in processes such as fading, scrubbing, and erasing.

(Adrian Piper, Everything #10. Courtesy: Creative Time, creativetime.org.)

A multimedia show of work made within the past few years, Nayland Blake: What the Whiskey Said, What the Sun is Saying at Matthew Marks Gallery, closes March 8th. Blake’s new small sculptures, made with found materials, represent a subtler, more abstracted version of the artist’s aesthetic. Blake’s drawings are sorrowful daily meditations that convey the alienation felt after the loss of a loved one.

(Nayland Blake, Untitled, 2007. Courtesy: Matthew Marks Gallery.)

A retrospective collection of work by legendary photographer Nan Goldin remains on view at Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma in Helsinki through April 13th.

(Nan Goldin, Greer and Robert on the bed, NYC 1982. Courtesy: Matthew Marks Gallery and Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma.)

La Durée at Listasafn Islands National Gallery of Iceland features work by Global Feminisms artist Emmanuelle Antille, as well as Gabríela Fridriksdottir and Gudny Rósa Ingimarsdóttir, through May 1st. These three artists engage with different mediums in their similar explorations of the ambiguities of space and time.

(Emmanuelle Antille, Julie and Arantxa I (from the series Angels Camp), 2002-2003. Courtesy: Galerie Akinci.)