Picks of the Week (6/13-6/19)

Work by Kathe Burkhart opens June 14th at Galerie Lumen Travo in Amsterdam. Cleverly appropriating a pop art aesthetic for feminist ends, Burkhart visually and verbally elaborates the radical female subject.

(Kathe Burkhart, Blueballs: from the Liz Taylor Series (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof), 2007, acrylic and mixed media on canvas, 72 x 108 in. Courtesy: Galerie Lumen Travo.)

Four//From Istanbul opens June 14th at Inspiring Spaces Loft. This weekend-only show is co-curated by Mezze and our former graduate intern Saisha Grayson. The show includes work by Turkish artist Hayal Ponzanti, whose stark black and white prints focuses on gender roles, and sexual and moral taboos in Turkish culture.

(Hayal Ponzanti. From the series This Longing. 2008. Serigraph print. 50 x 70 cm. Photo courtesy of the artist.)

A group show entitled Mahrem: Footnotes on Veiling opens June 14th at Tanas. Mahrem explores the disparity between the meanings women subjectively assign to Islamic covering and the significances projected and perceived by the public. This exhibition serves as the visual component to the first edition of “Non-Western Modernities,” an annual series of workshops and panel discussions conceptualized by sociologist Nilüfer Göle.

(Mandana Moghaddam, Chelgis I, 2003. Courtesy: Tanas.)

Also, for work that deals with veiling in a myriad of cultures and contexts, check out The Veil: Visible and Invisible Spaces at The Dairy through June 20th.

(announcement for The Veil: Visible and Invisible Spaces. Courtesy: The Dairy.)

The first Folkestone Triennial, Tales of Time and Space, has commissioned public works by 23 contemporary artists, including Global Feminisms artist Tracey Emin, Pae White, and Sejla Kameric, for its inaugural exhibition, opening June 14th.

(Sejla Kameric, 30 Years After, 2006, color photograph. Courtesy: Sejla Kameric.)

Summer, a group show that includes work by feminist artist Cyrilla Mozenter, opens June 19th at Knoedler Project Space.

(Cyrilla Mozenter, More Saints Seen #29, 2005. Courtesy: Cyrilla Mozenter.)

On June 19th, a show of work by Susan Hefuna, Knowledge is Sweeter than Honey, inaugurates Albion Gallery’s New York location.

(Susan Hefuna, Woman behind a masrhibiyya, 1997, photographic print. Image: artnet.)

Woman Made Gallery hosts both A Minyan Without Men and Tradition and Transformation: Art by Jewish Women through June 19th.

(Dorothy T. Grunes, The Centre Cannot Hold, 24 x 30 in., included in A Minyan Without Men. Courtesy: Woman Made Gallery.)

Janet Biggs’ Tracking Up: A Presentation of Six Single-Channel Videos remains open through June 21st at Solomon Projects. While Biggs has previously addressed social constructions of gender in her work, in this ambitious video installation she broadens her conceptual concerns to include complex relationships of power and control.

(Janet Biggs, Tracking Up, video stills. Courtesy: Solomon Projects.)

Portrait of Silvia Elena, a collaborative installation by Swoon and Tennessee Jane Watson, remains open through July 5th at Honey Space. This show constitutes a visceral reaction to the death of Silvia Elena; it memorializes and draws attention to the hundreds of women who have been abducted and murdered in Ciudad Juarez over the past decade.

(Swoon, Portrait of Silvia Elena. Courtesy: flavorpill and Honey Space.)

The Selling of the West, new photographs by the well-known male feminist Donald Woodman, is open now through August 2nd at Zane Bennett Contemporary Art. Taken during the course of a prolonged western road trip, Woodman’s photographs challenge the notion of the west as utopian frontier.

(Donald Woodman, announcement for The Selling of the West. Courtesy: Zane Bennett Contemporary Art.)

**To learn more about one of the Sackler Center’s favorite male feminist, check out Woodman’s website.

This just in:

This weekend the Renegade Craft Fair, a multi-city organization that gives artists and artisans the chance to sell their wares in a non-corporate venue, takes place at the McCarren Park Pool in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Many of the vendors are female craftspeople who support themselves through consigning their works and participating in DIY craft fairs like this one. Keep it up ladies!

(Sarah Neuberger, Nesting Dolls Stamp Set. Courtesy of the Artist.)