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Picks of the Week (7/23-7/29)
Camouflage opens this Friday at Amos Eno Gallery in Manhattan. This solo exhibition features artist Wei-Hui Hsu’s series of the same name. Using cosmetic facial masks to construct sculptural bodices and high heeled shoes, Wei-Hui Hsu interacts with her creations to create a voyeuristic atmosphere in her photographs.
(Wei-Hui Hsu, Photographic print from the Camoflage Series, 2007, Installation with facial masks, fabric stiffener, performance, toy guns, spray paint, army uniform. Courtesy of the artist.)
SOHO20 Chelsea Gallery just opened its 14th Annual International Exhibition last week which includes a solo show in their second gallery with artist Jong Sun Lee. Lee explores gender and power relations in her work through the use of unusual materials like human hair. When we emailed SOHO20 Chelsea’s director, Jenn Dierdorf, this morning, she mentioned that Lee “is currently preparing for a trip to Guatemala, where she will finance and work to build bathrooms for a community in return for their collaborative effort on an art project.”
(Jong Sun Lee, Yes You Are II, included in the 14th Annual International Exhibition. Courtesy of SOGO20 Chelsea Gallery)
2b female:perceptions of femininity opened last week at the Pendleton Art Gallery in Newport, Kentucky. Artist Pattie Byron combines female symbols with gender stereotypes to create her sculptures. The show runs through August 18th, so if you’re in the area, check it out!
(Pattie Byron, Habitual Femininity, painted metal, polished metal and yarn. Included in the 2b female: perceptions of femininity exhibition, 2008. Courtesy of the artist.)
Yayoi Kusama currently has a solo exhibition up at Ota Fine Arts in Tokyo. On view until August 22nd, this artist’s unique vision is not to be missed!
(Yayoi Kusama, Original Infinity Nets, 1999. Acrylic on canvas, 194 x 391 cm. Courtesy Ota Fine Arts.)
Using familiar objects in unfamiliar ways, artist Heidi Forssell includes everything from a toothy teddy bear to a deep fried ball gown to get her message across. Her MFA graduate exhibition, The Right Kind of Girl: Video, Sculpture and Drawings about Female Identity and Experience, just opened last Saturday at the Arts and Consiousness Gallery of JFKU Berkeley and runs until August 2nd.
(Heidi Forssell, Image from exhibition announcement for The Right Kind of Girl.)
The National Museum of Women in the Arts is currently showing Modern Love: Gifts to the Collection from Heather and Tony Podesta. This group show will be up until September 21st, so if you are in the D.C. area anytime soon, feel free to take a gander!
(Icelandic Love Corporation, Where Do We Go From Here?, 2001. Diasec lazerchrome print, 27 3/4 x 27 1/2 in. Courtesy of the National Museum of Women in the Arts.)
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Eastern Parkway/Brooklyn Museum
July 23rd, 2008 at 8:57 pm
this is wonderful to receive! Please, how does one become involved and list important feminist related events?
thank you for your service!
August 7th, 2008 at 9:47 pm
I am truly amazed by Pattie Byron’s exhibit 2B Female. The images are incredibly familiar but are presented in a such a fresh way that I cannot stop thinking about them.
August 8th, 2008 at 10:27 am
Pattie Byron’s work is brilliant!
March 30th, 2009 at 6:27 pm
Movement Research at Judson Church Monday Night Series
A free high visibility low-tech weekly forum
throughout the fall-winter and winter-spring seasons
for experimental, emerging ideas and works in progress.
Artists are selected twice yearly by a rotating peer panel of artists
Presents
Vernita Nemec AKA N’Cognita
with Sean Carolan & Nicole Lee
“Ghost Traveler”, A Performance Artwork
Movement Research at Judson Church, Washington Square South & Thompson St.
April 20, 2009 at 8PM
Admission is free
Vernita Nemec’s “Ghost Traveler” continues the artist’s often humorous exploration of the ironies of aging. In this performance artwork, Nemec’s version of Butoh movement & monologue both inspires and responds to the live guitar sounds of Sean Carolan and the dance of Nicole Lee representing Nemec’s more youthful self. Just 15 minutes in length, this version of “Ghost Traveler” is but one of four artistic presentations during this evening of Movement Research’s Monday Night Series.
Vernita N’Cognita aka Vernita Nemec is a visual/ performance artist/ curator who has exhibited her art throughout the world in numerous solo and group exhibitions. Working in a variety of media, she came to performance art from a visual art background, recently discovering Butoh, studying with Akira Kasai, Ximena Garnica & others.
Autobiography & what it is to be a female is a constant thread in her artwork, but now in the twenty-first century, she has added the dilemma of aging. Nemec first performed in 1968 at Judson Church in a Phill Niblock piece. Her next performance foray was in Meredith Monk’s Juice at the Guggenheim Museum in 1970, but Nemec (who also calls herself N’Cognita in honor of underknown artists), did not present her own performance pieces on street corners, museums and galleries until 1978. Since then she has done more than 70 performances, lectures & workshops at universities and performance spaces such as Franklin Furnace, BACA, A.I.R., etc and abroad, in Mexico City, Tokyo, Frankfurt & Darmstadt, Budapest, Dublin and Paris.