Picks of the Week (7/2-7/8)

For this week’s picks…

We highly recommend the long flight to Australia. Tracey Moffatt’s work is always worth it! Her show, at Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, in Sydney, opens July 5th and runs through July 28th.

(Tracey Moffatt, Doomed, 2007 (still). Image courtesy of the artist and Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney)

We also suggest…
Mathilde Ter Heijne’s show at Susanna Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, also through July 28th. In her videos and sculptures, ter Heijne uses her own persona to test the social and historical territory that determines the role of the artist.

(Mathilde Ter Heijne, “No depression in heaven”, 2006 (still). Image courtesy of the artist and Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Project)

Also launching this summer comes Image and Identity: Culture Behind Clothes, a virtual exhibition by The International Museum of Women in San Francisco. View the stories and join the conversation online from July 5 until September 30, 2007. This is a portion of the global online exhibit Imagining Ourselves.

(Image courtesy of The International Museum of Women)

Here in NY, be sure to see White as Color opening July 8th in The Jeanie Tengelsen Gallery at The Art League of Long Island (running through August 12th). The show includes some amazing feminists such as Michelle Stuart and Cyrilla Mozenter.

(Cyrilla Mozenter, Polar Bear Glove Song #20, 2007)

Finally, Retracing Territories opens in Switzerland at The FriArt (Centre d’Art Contemporain) from July 6 - August 19, 2007. FriArt is presenting two exhibitions respectively entitled Emotional Landscapes and Retracing Territories. Both highlight not only territory as an issue, but also history, via remote and close perspectives on Iran, Africa, the United States and Switzerland. The shows feature work by some incredible international artists such as, Parastou Forouhar, who just exhibited here in Global Feminisms.

(Parastou Forouhar, Thousand and One Day, 2003, wallpaper drawings (digital))