Picks of the Week (9/25-10/7)

Openings…

Tiger By the Tail! Women Artists of India Transforming Culture opens October 2nd at the Rose Art Museum of Brandeis University. Three generations of Indian artists, including Pushpamala N. and Anita Dube, challenge the representation of women as symbols of fertility. Dube’s work is also currently on view, through January 20th, at The Mattress Factory in Pittsburgh.

(Pushpamala N. and Clare Arni, The Native Types-Cracking the Whip, 2004. Courtesy: Bose Pacia.)

What We Saw Upon Awakening, a film by feminist artist Lida Abdul, opens October 4th at Location One. On October 9th, Abdul will speak about her body of work, including What We Saw Upon Awakening, in conversation with Pieranna Cavalchini.

(Lida Abdul, What We Saw Upon Awakening, 2006, video stills. Courtesy: Location One.)

The California premiere of Mary Kelly’s Circa 1968 opens October 4th at University Art Gallery of UC Irvine. Kelly’s show launches the UAG’s “Canonical Works of Art Series.” For more information…

My Life with Nam June Paik, video sculptures and installation by Fluxus and Feminist artist Shigeko Kubota is showing at Maya Stendhal Gallery through October 20th. Kubota began working with video in the late 1960’s and is often cited as influential in the fight to legitimize video as an art form. Her work Nude Descending a Staircase (1976) became the first video sculpture acquired by the Museum of Modern Art for its permanent collection. In this show of numerous video works, Kubota specifically pays homage to her artistic partner and husband, Nam June Paik, with two new sculptures evocative of and named after Paik.

(left: Shigeko Kubota, Korean Grave (detail), 1993. right: photo by Peter Moore, Shigeko Kubota/Three Mountains Sculpture, 1979, (at the artist’s studio). Both images: courtesy Maya Stendhal Gallery.)