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An exhibition by and talk with Janet Culbertson, Eco-Feminism: Eve Defends Her Garden, opens May 31st, 3pm, at the Floyd Memorial Library of Greenport, NY.

Happy Anniversary Hera Gallery! Hera Gallery hosts its 34th Anniversary opening on May 31st which features work by its current and associate members. Originally intended as a venue for women artists, Hera has grown to include regionally and nationally recognized artists regardless of gender.

(Myron Rubenstein, Night Burns Bright, 2006, 30″ x 40″, printed on canvas with pigmented ink. Courtesy: Hera Gallery.)

Lynn Hershman Leeson’s Found Objects is open through June 5th at bitforms gallery. In this exhibition Hershman Leeson includes an installation comprised of a projector and a realistic female sex doll, posed as Manet’s Olympia, as well as photographic portraits of the doll as seemingly frightened.

(Lynn Hershman Leeson, No Body, 2007, from the Found Objects series, Lambda print, 42″ x 42.5″. Courtesy: bitforms gallery.)

Louise Lawler’s Sucked In, Blown Out, Obviously Indebted or One Foot in Front of the Other remains open at Metro Pictures through June 7th. Lawler, a pioneer of institutional critique in art, here displays photographs taken of recent, publicly displayed art installations in museums and auction houses, including, as shown here, a work by one of Brooklyn Museum’s current guest artists Takashi Murakami.

(Louise Lawler, Polyanna, 2007/2008, 30 1/8″ x 24 1/8″, cibachrome face mounted to plexi on museum box. Courtesy: Metro Pictures.)

California Video at The Getty Center, open through June 8th, addresses the production of video art by California feminist artists and includes work by Eleanor Antin, Martha Rosler, and Woman’s Building artists such as Cheri Gaulke.

(Nina Sobell, Interactive Electroencephalographic Video Drawings, 1973, photo by Ken Feingold. Courtesy: The Getty.)

ISE Cultural Foundation is currently showing work by Japanese artist Yuko Suzuki in its front project space, through June 27th. Suzuki’s ceramic works encapsulate human interactions as shaped by capitalism and personal identification with globalized commodities.

(Yuko Suzuki, installation view of POP, 2008. Courtesy: ISE Cultural Foundation.)

Energetic Accumulators and Token Exchanges by Andrea Zittel is now open at Regen Projects. In an extension of her Raugh Furniture series, Zittel continues to walk a fine line between sculpture and furniture while creating objects that attempt to embrace human imperfection through the creation of a mindset or ideology.

(Andrea Zittel, Raugh Furniture, 2007. Courtesy: Andrea Zittel.)

A joint show of work by Marilyn Minter and Mika Rottenberg, Sweat, is now open at Galerie Laurent Godin. Minter and Rottenberg kick off the summer with an irreverent celebration of sweat and all its implications.

(Marilyn Minter, Shinola, 2008, color print. Courtesy: Galerie Laurent Godin.)