Picks (1/9-1/22)

This weekend at the museum, Professor Elinor Gadon will be speaking about goddesses and her new book The Once and Future Goddess. This event is in conjunction with The Fertile Goddess, currently up in the Herstory Gallery. For more information, click here.

(Female Figurine. Provenance not known; type known from Cyprus. Late Bronze Age, Late Cypriot II, circa 1450–1200 B.C.E. Terracotta, pigment, 3 x 2 x 2 in.)

Kate Gilmore’s solo exhibition is in it’s last week at the Smith-Stewart Gallery in Manhattan. Gilmore uses an extreme physicality in her video art, kicking down drywall in high heels and donning a fluorescent pink bow as she smashes furniture with sledgehammers. An installation accompanies her three most recent videos in this show, which will be up until January 18th.

(Kate Gilmore, Down the House, 2008, single channel video, 17 min. 6 sec. Courtesy of Smith-Stewart.)

Re:Production opens today at Three Walls in Chicago. Featuring the work of artist Christa Donner, this exhibition re-imagines the human reproductive system via a wall installation, drawings and a zine. Donner will be giving an artist talk at the gallery on January 29th, before the show closes February 13th.

(Christa Donner, Image from Re:Production. Courtesy of Three-Walls.)

Another Chicago exhibition of interest is Girlfriends, Lovers, Still Lifes and Landscape, featuring artist Mickalene Thomas. Closing Saturday at the Rhona Hoffman Gallery, this show uses rhinestones and patterning to explore the Harlem Renaissance and 1960s aesthetics.

(Mickalene Thomas, Image from Girlfriends, Lovers, Still Lifes and Landscape, Courtesy Rhona Hoffman Gallery)

Un Coup de Dent just opened at Galerie Lelong in Manhattan. Feminist artist Nancy Spero’s so-called “Black Paintings” from the late fifties and early sixties are featured in this show, which will be up until February 21st.

(Nancy Spero, Mother and Children (2), 1956. Oil on canvas. Courtesy of Galerie Lelong.)

Erik Alos - Lauren Bergman - James Naccarato, just opened at the Cory Helford Gallery in Culver City, California. Lauren Bergman’s feminist take on pop surrealism at times takes the form of prancing housewives, synchronized swimmers, and hyena’s munching on babydolls. This show will be up until January 20th.

(Lauren Bergman, This is the Life, acrylic and litho coal on gessoed paper, 30″ x 22″. Courtesy of Corey Helford Gallery.)