Two exhibitions of note are closing this Friday, August 14th, at the ARC Gallery in Chicago. Mary Maughelli uses collage and mixed media in her work to reference historical representations of women as depicted in art of the past. In second exhibition, Margaret LeJeune & Sabba Saleem Syal, LeJeune shows her Modern Day Diana series, an examination of the world of female hunters, while Sabba Saleem Syal’s mixed media and fiber installation, A Contested Territory, draws from her personal/familial history, as well as the tumultuous political history of Pakistan.

(Margaret LeJeune, Cindy, from The Modern Day Diana Series, 2008, 22×18 inches, Silver Gelatin photograph, archival inkjet print. Courtesy of ARC Gallery.)

Adriana López Sanfeliu: Life on the Block is open through this Saturday, August 15th at the Randall Scott Gallery in Brooklyn. In this, her first solo-exhibition in the U.S., the artist uses photography to document the life of Puerto Rican women who live on 103rd Street in Spanish Harlem.

(Adriana Lopez Sanfeliu, Amy Getting Ready, From Life on the Block, 2009, Silver Gelatin Print,11×14 edition of 14. Courtesy of Randall Scott Gallery.)

The International Incheon Women Artists’ Biennale, So Close Yet So Far Away is currently up at the Incheon Art Platform at the Incheon Korean-Chinese Cultural Center in Korea. This month long biennale showcases work from 101 international artists including Samira Abbassy and Judy Chicago, among others. Divided into three subsections titled “Personal Space”, “Fluid Interior”, and “Contested Space”, the exhibition explores the idea of space as perceived by contemporary women artists. The show closes August 31st, so if you are in the area, be sure to head on over!

(Exhibition announcement image. Courtesy of the International Incheon Women Artists’ Biennale.)

Sight Unseen: Video from Afghanistan and Iran is made up of two video pieces—The Third One by Afghan artist Rahraw Omarzad and The White Station by Iranian artist Seifollah Samadian. Both artists use images of women dressed in chador-Ormazad to explore physical and metaphysical spaces of contestation, while Samadian’s women embody perseverance as they wait for a bus during a blizzard in Tehran in 1999. This show will be up at the Asia Society Museum in Manhattan until September 13th, don’t miss it!

(Rahraw Omarzad (born 1964, Kabul, Afghanistan). The Third One, 2005. Single channel video, color, and sound. 11 minutes, 31 seconds. Courtesy of the Asia Society Museum)

This summer is proving a busy time for artist Kate Gilmore, whose video With Open Arms, 2005 is currently up at Ramis Barquet in Chelsea. The work is part of a larger exhibition curated by Nick Kilner titled East Coast Video, which includes the work of Caraballo-Farman, Jamie Diamond, Alex McQuilkin and Rashaad Newsome as well. This show is open until August 14th.

(Kate Gilmore, With Open Arms, 2005. Courtesy of the artist.)

Jessica Dickinson’s Here just opened at James Fuentes LLC. Based in Gowanus, Brooklyn, Dickinson explores the exchange between perception and psychology in her paintings, which are filled with portals, thresholds and border spaces. This show will be up until September 20th.

(Jessica Dickinson studio, Gowanus, Brooklyn 2009. Courtesy of James Fuentes LLC.)

GODDESS, a group show including artists Hunter Clarke, Ilene Godofsky, Michelle Orsi Gordon, Matt Harvill, Erin Lee Jones, Georgina Keenan, Raghava KK, Nia Mora, Jennifer Murray and Sara Woolley, is now open at Under Minerva Gallery in Brooklyn. Doubling as benefit for The Hazel K. Goddess Fund for Stroke Research in Women in honor of the late Brenda Navas, this exhibition attempts to reflect on the wisdom and guidance of the divine feminine. GODDESS closes this Friday, August 14th.

(Exhibition announcement image. Courtesy of Under Minerva Gallery.)

I would like to bid a fond farewell to all of you who’ve read the “Picks” over the past year or so. Today is my last day interning here at the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, as I will be moving on to grad school and other things. I know, I know, it’s devastating, but don’t worry-the “Picks” will continue on for all you loyal readers out there looking for some good feminist art!

In an attempt to launch the careers of visual artists in the 1970’s punk scene, Bettie Ringma and Marc H. Miller decided to mount a show with the legendary founder of Washington Project for the Arts (WPA) and cornerstone of the Washington, D.C. arts community at the time, Alice Denney. The 1978 exhibition, titled Punk Art, became what Miller describes as one of “Alice’s more radical moments”, prompting a wave of similar exhibitions in the years that followed. The out-of-print catalogue that accompanied Punk Art is now being released in full with additional interviews, images, and video at 98Bowery.com.

(Alice Denney, former director of WPA. Image from the Punk Art catalogue, available online at 98Bowery.com)

Projects 90: Song Dong is currently on display at the Museum of Modern Art here in New York. The elaborate installation fills the museum’s atrium— displaying the structure and entire contents of Song Dong’s mother’s (Zhao Xiangyuan) house. The piece pairs the personal and the political: at once an act of catharsis and a visual manifestation of wu jin qi yong or “Waste not”. The result is an expansive, almost daunting, mosaic of ‘things’— emblematic of a life and this effort to preserve it.

(Song Dong. Waste Not. 2005. Courtesy of Tokyo Gallery + BTAP.)

Currently on view at Robert Morris University in Moon Township, PA, is Women Imaging Women: A Study of Female Portraiture. In conjunction with Woman Made Gallery, this exhibition features a diverse selection of portraits and self-portraits of women all done by contemporary women artists. The exhibition explores the way that representation is effected by the gender of both artist and subject. The array of works incorporate styles ranging from expressionist to naturalistic with mediums ranging from sculpture to painting to photography. The exhibition will be on view through September 13th.

(Susan Tennenbaum, Ellie 19, Skokie, Illinois, archival pigment print,16 x 12 inches. Courtesy of Woman Made Gallery.)

Boxing Gloves and Bustiers opens this week at SOHO20 in Chelsea. Curated by artist Kate Gilmore(who’s artwork is currently featured in Reflections on the Electric Mirror: New Feminist Video), this group exhibition brings together the work of fourteen artists who explore the many faces of heroic female figuration using video as their medium. The show will be up until August 14th, so check it out!

(From Boxing Gloves and Bustiers exhibition. Courtesy SOHO20 Gallery.)

Opening tomorrow at the New Museum is Dorothy Iannone: Lioness, the first solo-exhibition featuring Iannone’s work in the US. The show will feature paintings, drawings, sculptures, and a video box by Iannone, all done between 1965 and 1978, during the height of the second-wave feminist generation. Iannone’s work dispels taboo’s surrounding female sexuality and instead presents it as a transcendent experience; her mixed media work portrays a first-person narrative of spirituality, sexuality and the freedom to express it. The exhibition will be on view through October 18th.

(Dorothy Iannone, I Begin to Feel Free, 1970. Acrylic and collage on canvas, 74 3/4 x 59. Courtesy of New Museum.)

“The Thousand and One Nights” (contemporary artists from Palestine) is currently up at Postmasters Gallery in Manhattan. The show features the work of six contemporary Palestinian artists, including Jumana Manna, who’s video and photographic piece Familiar, 2007, comments on the relationship between generations, showing the artist (an adult in her early twenties) being breastfed by her mother. The show closes August 8th.

(Jumana Manna, Familiar , 2007 – installation video with sound and C-print,13.4 x 19.3 inches. Courtesy of Postmasters Gallery.)

Kate Gilmore’s certainly busy these days!! Currently on view at On Stellar Rays in New York is Lover, an exhibition curated by Gilmore that celebrates and explores the many sides and many kinds of love. The group show features work by Karen Heagle, Jessica Jackson Hutchins, Nan Goldin, Deborah Kass, Marilyn Minter, and others. The show CLOSES this Sunday, July 26th.

(Nan Goldin, Jimmy Paulette and Tabboo! undressing, NYC, 1991, c-print, 40 by 30 inches. Courtesy of On Stellar Rays.)

Sikkema, Jenkins & Co is currently exhibiting a weekly rotation of video art titled, Suddenly This Summer, which includes the work of twelve artists. Now in its final weeks, be sure not to miss Kara Walker’s Kara Walker Messing Around with the Ebony Hillbillies, 2007, on view from August 3rd - 7th.

(Pilar Albarracín, Bailaré sobre tu tumba / I Will Dance on Your Grave, 2004 (still). Courtesy of Sikkema, Jenkins & Co.)

This week, on July 24th and 25th, Peltz Gallery in Madison, WI will be holding The Nineteenth Annual Remarkable Women Show. The exhibition will feature collage, paintings, drawings and prints by over 40 contemporary women artists including Kara Walker, Judy Pfaff, and Judy Chicago.

(Judy Chicago, Into the Darkness, 2008. Courtesy of Peltz Gallery.)

(Shirin Aliabada and Fahrad Moshiri, Intifada Laundry Liquid and Hejab Barbie, Operation Supermarket Series, 2006, Ink Jet Print, both 75 x 100 cm. Courtesy of Chelsea Art Museum.)

The Female Gaze: Women Look at Women, opening this Thursday, June 25th at Cheim & Read seeks to give a varied significance to the female figure in art by presenting a group of women artists depicting the female form. With works from several generations ranging from Julia Margaret Cameron to Ghada Amer this show is a must see for you. Yes, you.

(Berenice Abbott , Mme. Theodore van Rysselberghe, 1926-30 , Vintage gelatin silver print, 10 x 8 in. Courtesy of Cheim & Read.)

Cindy Workman: The Women is currently up at Lennon, Weinberg, Inc. This retrospective of Workman’s art from the nineties up to today demonstrates her commitment to the investigation of sexuality, body image and social identity in her artwork. This show closes August 14th.

(Cindy Workman, Pebbles, 2003, 51 x 40-3/4″, unique digital print, plexiglass and frame. Courtesy of Lennon, Weinberg, Inc.)

The artwork of Tracey Goodman, Kyung Jeon, Shiri Mordechay, Habby Osk, Rocio Rodriguez Salceda, and Joanna M. Wezyk will be featured in an upcoming exhibition at Tina Kim Gallery that opens June 25th. The show, titled I Stepped Into the Room, is named for the final line of Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar, and has unifying attributes which center around identity and relation to physical space. This show closes September 12th.

(Rocio Rodriguez Salceda, Agujero Negro 2, 2008, Pigmented print, 16 x 12 inches. Courtesy of Tina Kim Gallery.)

Declaration of Independence: 50 Years of Art by Faith Ringgold is in its last week at the Mason Gross School of the Arts Galleries at Rutgers University in New Brunswick. This retrospective of Ringgold’s work closes Friday, so check it out before it’s too late!

(Faith Ringgold, Working Women (detail), 1996, Acrylic on canvas, 41 x 31 inches. Courtesy of the Institute for Women and Art at Rutgers.)

Fever Dreams at the Crystal Motel is currently up at Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects. This solo-exhibition of the video and photographic work of Laurel Nakadate can be quite unsettling, particularly her Lucky Tiger series, which documents a performance involving anonymous middle-aged men enlisted via Craigslist, 1950s style camera club photos, and fingerprinting ink. The show closes July 24th.

(Laurel Nakadate, Lucky Tiger #3, 2009, Type-C print and fingerprinting ink, 4” x 6”. Courtesy of Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects.)

Structured Simplicity just opened at Dumbo Arts Center in Brooklyn. Bringing together the work of Mai Braun, Hilary Harnischfeger, Elana Herzog, Fabienne Lasserre, and Amy Yoes, this exhibition seeks to convey how structures take shape using various different approaches and materials, from shredded bed-linens and deconstructed garments to the New York Times.

(Amy Yoes, Modification and Collapse, 2009. Video loop. Courtesy of Dumbo Arts Center.)

Tracey Emin: Those who suffer Love is currently up at White Cube in London. Emin, who had a piece in both Burning Down the House: Building a Feminist Art Collection and Global Feminisms here at the Center, has timed Those who suffer Love to coincide with her new book, titled One Thousand Drawings. The show closes July 4th.

(Those who suffer Love exhibition announcement image. Courtesy of White Cube.)

Through her use of unusual materials such as face powder, spray tan, and lipstick, Karla Black creates an oppositional approach to Minimalist Art in her solo-exhibition, currently up at Migros Musuem in Zürich. The show closes August 16th, so if you are in the area, check it out!

(Karla Black, Principals of Admitting (2009), plaster powder, powder paint, sugar paper, spray tan, chalk, concealer stick. Courtesy of Migros Museum.)

Rachel Harrison: Consider the Lobster opens this Saturday, June 27th, at CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art. This 10 year survey of Harrison’s work will be displayed in conjunction with a re-installation of works from the Marieluise Hessel Collection, chosen by Harrison and a group of invited artists including Nayland Blake, who was recently included in Burning down the House: Building a Feminist Art Collection. The show will be open until December 20th.

(Consider the Lobster exhibition announcement image. Courtesy of CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art.)

Black Madonna, a group show currently up at HP Garcia Gallery, focuses on how one perceives the body in a corporate, celebrity-obsessed culture, seeking to balance the masculine and feminine. This exhibition closes August 1st.

(Marissa Soroudi, Jules, 2009, Photograph in lightbox, 40” x 20”. Courtesy of HP Garcia Gallery.)

At times feminist, anti-corporate, surreal, or simply humorous, the work of artist Amélie Chunleau will be included in a group show opening at the Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural & Educational Center (CSV) Thursday, June 25th. Presented by Sweethearts and Spies, The Gnomon includes the work of nine emerging contemporary artists and a performance by Cleo Fischl.

(Amélie Chunleau, Untitled, 2009. Courtesy of the Artist.)

Feminist performance and body art pioneer Manon currently has an exhibition up at the Swiss Institute of Contemporary Art in Manhattan. Titled simply, Manon, this retrospective of her work will be on view to the public until June 30th and will include the very first exhibition of her pieces The End of Lola Montez and The Salmon-Colored Boudoir outside of Switzerland.

(Manon, She Was Once Miss Rimini, projection still, 2003. Courtesy of the Swiss Institute of Contemporary Art, New York.)

Curated by Joan Weber, Masked is currently up at School 33 Art Center in Baltimore. Participating artists, including Brooklyn Museum collection artist Bailey Doogan, have used their own bodies or biographies to convey secrecy in this exhibition. The show closes June 27th.

(Masked exhibition announcement image. Courtesy of School 33 Art Center.)

Making Worlds, the 53rd International Art Exhibition opened on June 7th in Venice. The show, directed by Daniel Birnbaum, will feature the work of some 90 artists including that of Susan Hefuna, Joan Jonas, Miranda July, Natalie Djurburg and Yoko Ono. A record of 77 countries will be participating in this year’s Venice Biennial, which will be open to the public until November 22, 2009.

(Susan Hefuna. 4 women-4 views made in Egypt, 2001. Courtesy of the artist.)

Closing Thursday, June 11th, at The Women Made Gallery in Chicago is Lily Mayfield- Intimate Distance. Mayfield’s series of photographs challenges what it means to be “home” by exploring the contradicting desires for intimacy and separateness from those with whom we live.

(Lily Mayfield, Coffee in Bed, archival inkjet print, 20x 30 inches. Courtesy of Women Made Gallery.)

Sketch in Stitch, a solo-exhibition of the work of Shizuko Kimura will be opening at Noho Gallery on June 9th in Manhattan. Fusing textile art with figure drawing, Kimura explores the subtlety of line and form through her use of thread as a medium. Her drawings, executed without preliminary sketches or the aid of photographs, capture the immediacy of the gestures and figures, and can redefine traditional bodily aesthetics. This show closes on June 27th.

(Exhibition announcement image for Sketch in Stitch. Image courtesy of Noho Gallery.)

Open Source Embroidery just opened at Bildmuseet in Sweden. Traversing the link between craft and code, this exhibition features collectively and individually made artworks that examine cultural participation in technologies both old and new. This show will be up until September 6th, so if you are in the area, head on over!

(Becky Stern, LilyPad Arduino Embroidery: A Tribute to Leah Buechley, 2008. Courtesy of BildMuseet.)

Sadie Benning currently has a video up at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Benning has a history of questioning gender and sexuality in her artwork. In this new video, titled Play Pause, she cuts together hundreds of her own gouache drawings of urban landscapes, figures, and abstractions, and uses split-screen and color filters to convey the heightened sense of perception surrounding loss. This exhibition closes September 20th.

(Sadie Benning, drawing for Play Pause, 2001-06. Courtesy of the Whitney Museum of American Art.)

Currently up at the Museum for Contemporary African Diaspora Arts in Ft. Greene, Brooklyn, is a group show featuring five women artists titled, Perspectives: Women, Art and Islam. Fariba Alam, Zoulikha Bouabdellah, Mahwish Chisty, Safaa Erruas, and Nsenga Knight all share a connection to Islam through their various cultural backgrounds which they channel into their artwork. This exhibition ends September 13th.

(Exhibition announcement for Perspectives: Women, Art, and Islam. Courtesy of MoCADA.)

Feminist artist Cristina Biaggi currently has a show up at Ceres Gallery. Cristina Biaggi, A Collage Retrospective: Political Collages from 1977 – Present, will be up through this Saturday, June 13th. Check out Biaggi’s artist page, coming soon to the Feminist Art Base!

(Cristina Biaggi, At Last 1, Color collage on wood triptych, 22″ x 17″, 2009. Courtesy of Ceres Gallery.)

The Other Half of the Sky, an exhibition of the photographic and video work of feminist artist Lili Almog, is currently up at the Andrea Meislin Gallery in Manhattan. Almog’s work in this show focuses on the extraordinary situation of Muslim women and matriarchal societies in China. Check it out before it closes this Saturday, June 13th.

(Lili Almog, Lugu Woman #3, 2007,Chromogenic color print. Courtesy of Andrea Meislin Gallery.)

Kol Ishah, In Her Voice / Elle prend la parole is currently up at the Emet Gallery in Hampstead, Quebec. This exhibition features the work of Lucy Levine, Melissa Shiff, and Devora Neumark. The three artists attempt to reclaim and rewrite aspects surrounding Jewish marriage rituals in this show, which closes September 7th.

(Promotional imagery from Kol Ishah, In Her Voice / Elle prend la parole. Courtesy Emet Gallery.)

Don’t forget, Patricia Cronin: “Harriet Hosmer, Lost and Found” just opened in the Herstory gallery here at the museum-make some time in the coming weeks to see this one!

Also, a big thank you to our newest intern here at the Center, Nina Pelaez, for contributing to this week’s picks!

Körpermuster, a solo-exhibition of the work of Sybille Hotz, opens May 27th at Green Contemporary in Manhattan. Hotz uses imagery of wrestling girls in this show to blur the line between power and submission, adorning the girls with repeated imagery of biological, clinical, and medicinal graphics sewn directly onto her pieces.

(Sybille Hotz, Neuronenohr, 2009, Wool on cotton cloth, 51″ x 62″. Courtesy of Greene Contemporary.)

In its last week at Fred Torres Collaborations, Little Pretty is an exhibition of the artwork of Gretchen Ryan. In her oil portraits, Ryan attempts to imbue her young subjects-all regular participants in child beauty contests-with a sense of their own autonomy despite the culturally constructed ideals imposed on them. Little Pretty closes Saturday, May 23rd.

(Gretchen Ryan, Lucky Six, from Little Pretty. Courtesy of Fred Torres Collaborations.)

Commune, curated by Dominique Nahas opens May 21st at Black and White Gallery’s Chelsea location. Feminist artist Chitra Ganesh will be among the twenty-four nationally and internationally recognized artists included in this exhibition who will examine the varied effects of social bonds.

(Chitra Ganesh, Her Shimmering Pulse, 2008, Digital collage, 66 1/4 x 50 inches. Courtesy of Black and White Gallery.)

Dionysus in Love, a retrospective of the work of artist Marco Silombria is currently up at Leslie/Lohman Gay Art Foundation. Silombria combines classical motifs with modern subject matter in this show, which closes June 27th.

(Marco Silombria, D’après Botticelli, 1984, Acrylic on canvas. Courtesy of Leslie/Lohman Gay Art Foundation.)

Alice Neel: Nudes of the 1930s is currently up at Zwirner & Wirth in Manhattan. Neel’s honesty in her portraits gave individuality back to the idealized female nudes of art history. This show runs concurrently with Alice Neel: Selected Works at David Zwirner, both closing June 20th.

(Alice Neel, Rhoda Myers with Blue Hat, 1930, Oil on canvas, 27 1/2 x 23 1/4 inches. Courtesy of Zwirner & Wirth.)

Strong Suit: Armor as Second Skin shows feminist artist Linda Stein exploring her concept of the body as armor. The show will be up until June 19th at National Association of Women Artists in Manhattan.

(Exhibition announcement image for Strong Suit: Armor as Second Skin. Courtesy of national Association of Women Artists.)

Looped & Layered: A Selection of Contemporary Art from Tehran just opened at Thomas Erben Gallery. Twelve artists are included in this group show, up until June 27th.

(Amirali Ghasemi, from the Coffee House series. Courtesy of Thomas Erben Gallery.)

(Mequitta Ahuja, Spark, 2009. Waxy chalk on paper, triptych, 50 x 114 inches. Courtesy of BravinLee Programs.)

Aqui Estamos (Here We Are) opens May 1st at Projects Gallery in Philadelphia. Works by Cirenaica Moreira, Marta Maria Perez Bravo, Sandra Ramos and feminist artist Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons, among others, are featured in this exhibition of contemporary Cuban artwork.

(Cirenaica Moreira, “La Libertad es una palabra enorme” (Freedom is a huge word), Gelatin Silver Print. Courtesy of Projects Gallery.)

Ward Shelley’s solo-exhibition Who invented the Avant Garde (and other half-truths) is currently up at Pierogi in Brooklyn. This show continues Shelley’s exploration of timelines and includes the piece Matriliniage, 2008, a celebration of American women painters. Who invented the Avant Garde (and other half-truths) closes May 17th.

(Ward Shelley, Matrilineage, ver. 1, 2008, Oil and toner on mylar, 30 1/16 x 58 inches. Courtesy of Pierogi.)

Global Feminisms artist Elke Krystufek currently has a show up at Galerie Meyer Kainer in Vienna. Elke Krystufek: the female gaze at the male or unmale man closes tomorrow, April 25th, so if you’re in the area, head on over!

(Exhibition announcement for the female gaze at the male or unmale man. Courtesy Galerie Meyer Kainer.)

Mi Vida – From Heaven to Hell is open now at Műcsarnok Kunsthalle in Budapest. The impressive roster of artists includes Pipilotti Rist, Tracey Moffatt, Shirin Neshat and Marina Abramovic, among others, in this exhibition of almost 100 works by thirty-six contemporary artists. This show will be up until May 17th.

(Tracey Moffatt, Scarred For Life, 1999, 10 offset prints. Courtesy Műcsarnok Kunsthalle.)

In Take Care of Yourself, an exhibition currently on view at the Paula Cooper Gallery, Sophie Calle asks 107 women (including one parrot) to respond to a break-up letter she once received. The responses show the range of individual emotion and subtlety of reaction possible in such a situation. Take Care of Yourself closes June 6th.

(Sophie Calle,Take Care of Yourself, Amira Casar, Actress, 2007. Courtesy of the Paula Cooper Gallery.)

The work of Nathania Rubin, Cindy Sherman, Laurie Simmons and Karen Yasinsky is brought together in Surveillance from the Doll House, currently up at Mireille Mosler Ltd. Through both drawing and puppet animation, these four artists will consider identity and the inanimate in this show, on view until May 23rd.

(Laurie Simmons, The Music of Regret, 2005-6. DVD 44:14 min. Edition of 10. Courtesy of Mireille Mosler Ltd.)

Chantal Joffe opens at Cheim & Read on May 7th. Joffe paints directly from sources in which her subjects are objectified–magazine ads, fashion spreads, snapshots–imbuing them with an emotional and psychological intensity that undermines their original portrayal.

(Chantal Joffe, KELSEY, 2009, Oil on board, 84 x 55 inches. Courtesy of Cheim & Read.)

Opening May 1st at Woman Made Gallery in Chicago, The Emotional Body includes the work of thirty-seven female artists. Using a variety of different media, these artists explore the intersections between the emotional and physical body in this group exhibition.

(Mary Rachel Fanning, Me and Grandma with Mama’s Quilt, archival inkjet print, 17 x 11 inches. Courtesy of Woman Made Gallery.)

(Amélie Chunleau, Untitled, 2009. Courtesy of the artist.)

\ ‘flō \ : art, text, new media opens April 15th at The Center for Book Arts in Manhattan. Feminist artist Jessica Lagunas, among others, will be investigating the flow of text and image in various different media in this group show.

(Exhibition announcement image. Courtesy of Jessica Lagunas.)

Kurban, an exhibition of the photography and video of Almagul Menlibayeva closes this Saturday, April 11th, at Priska C. Juschka Fine Art. In a feminist take on mythology, Menlibayeva reassigns the male roles of traditional myths to women in this exhibition. Don’t miss it!

(Almagul Menlibayeva, Before the Solar Eclipse, III, Lambda print mounted on alu-dibond, 2009. Courtesy of Priska C. Juschka Fine Art.)

Gravity Buffs, a group show including the work of feminist artist Amy Cutler, closes this Saturday, April 11th, at the Thomas Robertello Gallery in Chicago. The exhibition features artists who reveal their narratives and content through the unusual use of gravity in their work.

(Amy Cutler, Arrangement, 2002. Courtesy of the Thomas Robertello Gallery.)

In conjunction with the exhibition I Am Art, curated by Anthony Berlet, M.D., Dr. Virginia Braun will be giving a talk at Apexart on Wednesday, April 15th at 6:30 pm. In Cosmetic surgery, commercialization and culture: The case of the ‘designer vagina’, Braun will discuss the social implications of the growing trend of female genital cosmetic surgery. I Am Art will be on view until May 9th.

Guest of Cindy Sherman is showing now at Cinema Village in Manhattan. This documentary film gives an intimate look into the life of artist Cindy Sherman through the eyes of her lover, Paul H-O. For more information on the film, click here.

(Movie poster image. Courtesy of Cinema Village.)

Intended Consequences: Rwandan Children Born of Rape is currently on view at the Aperture Gallery. In this exhibition, the photography of Jonathan Torgovnik introduces women and children who live the various consequences of another’s heinous acts. This show closes Thursday, May 7th.

(From Intended Consequences: Rwandan Children Born of Rape. Courtesy of Aperture Gallery.)

Artist, feminist, and writer Mira Schor will be giving a talk at 8pm tonight at Momenta Art in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. This talk will be in conjunction with her exhibition Suddenly, on view at the gallery through April 20th.

(From Suddenly,. Courtesy of Momenta Art.)

Also, on April 20th at 8pm, feminist artist Vernita N’Cognita will be performing her Ghost Traveler at Judson Church . One of four performances that night, Ghost Traveler will explore the ironies of aging. Don’t miss it!

The artwork of video and performance artist Shana Moulton has been included as part of the inaugural exhibition of the Bluecoat’s new gallery spaces, 4 x 4. Four Galleries, Four Exhibitions, One Venue, in Liverpool. Moulton plays an anxious hypochondriac who seeks solace in new age remedies and shamanic rituals in her video series Whispering Pines, selections from which are featured in this exhibition.

(Shana Mouton, Film still from Whispering Pines, 2002-2007. Courtesy of the Bluecoat.)

Diaristic at times, Amy Wilson’s work uses personal elements to address broader issues of femininity and politics. In Amy Wilson: “There are always such beautiful things…”, now in its final days at the Hunterdon Art Museum in Clinton, New Jersey, Wilson combines paper cutouts and text in both two and three dimensional formats to get her point across. This show ends March 29th.

(Installation view of Amy Wilson: “There are always such beautiful things…” Courtesy of Hunterdon Art Museum.)

Longtime feminist and advocate of gay and lesbian rights, Louise Fishman currently has a solo exhibition up at Cheim and Read in Chelsea. The show, titled Louise Fishman, displays a selection of the artist’s recent, large scale works, and will be on view until May 2nd.

(Louise Fishman, Paragraphs of Wind, 2008. Oil on canvas, 32 x 30 inches, 81.3 x 76.2 centimeters. Courtesy of Cheim and Read.)

2007 MacArthur Fellow, Joan Snyder brings abstract expressionism, feminism, and surface additives such as herbs and straw to her paintings in a way that is uniquely her own. Her work is currently on view in Joan Snyder: Selected Paintings at the Carl Solway Gallery in Cincinnati. The show runs until April 18th, so if you are in the area be sure to stop on by!

(Joan Snyder, Motherlove, 1999; Oil, acrylic, papier-mâché and wooden dowels on canvas; 73.5 x 85.5 inches. Courtesy of Carl Solway Gallery.)

Drawings and Watercolors, a group exhibition closing April 4th at Senior and Shopmaker Gallery in Manhattan, includes the work of Polly Apfelbaum, Wangechi Mutu, and Elizabeth Murray among others. Apfelbaum and Murray are also included in Burning Down the House: Building a Feminist Art Collection, which is in its final weeks here at the museum.

(Polly Apfelbaum, Plus 2 Posies, 2007. Marker on synthetic silk velvet, 28 1/2 x 22 inches. Courtesy Senior and Shopmaker Gallery.)

The artwork of writer/feminist/painter Mira Schor is currently up at Momenta Art in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. In “Suddenly,” New Paintings by Mira Schor, the artist’s first solo-exhibition in New York in over a decade, Schor interprets language as image, representing a loss for words often created by personal and political happenings. This show will be up until April 20th.

(Mira Schor, From “Suddenly,” New Paintings by Mira Schor. Courtesy of Momenta Art.)

Carolee Schneemann: Painting, What it Became, curated by Maura Reilly, closes this Saturday, March 28th at P.P.O.W. Gallery in Chelsea. Be sure to make it over to see this insightful unification of Schneemann’s early, abstract paintings with her later, feminist artwork.

(Carolee Schneeman, War Mop , 1983, mixed media, Sculpture; 24 x 62 x 20 inches, TV: 12 x 18 x 10 inches. Courtesy of P.P.O.W. Gallery.)

Stephen Sollins: Letters Home also closes this Saturday at the Arthur Roger Gallery in New Orleans. Sollins combines found paper, envelopes, and embroidery to create quilt-like patterns in his work. Definitely worth a look if you happen to be in the area!

(Stephen Sollins, Jack’s House, 2008. Found printed paper and acetate from envelopes, 60 x 48 inches. Courtesy of Arthur Roger Gallery.)

This Friday is the last day to see Better Than Ever: Women Figurative Artists of the ‘70s SoHo Co-Ops at the Salena Gallery in Brooklyn. The exhibition’s next stop will be at the Dishman Art Museum in Beaumont, Texas, and then on to the Rowan University Art Gallery in the fall. Included in this group exhibition is Dotty Attie and Sylvia Sleigh, among others.

(Better Than Ever: Women Figurative Artists of the ‘70s SoHo Co-Ops announcement image. Courtesy of Salena Gallery.)

And if you haven’t already, don’t forget to check out Burning Down the House: Building a Feminist Art Collection before it closes April 5th!

CAROLEE SCHNEEMANN: Performance Photographs from the 1970’s is currently on view at Carolina Nitsch Contemporary Art in Chelsea. I had a chance to check out the show this week, and found it to be a great opportunity to learn more about this legendary feminist artist. This exhibition will be up until March 28th.

(Carolee Schneemann, Parallel Axis, 1973. Courtesy of Carolina Nitsch Contemporary Art.)

The A.I.R. Gallery 8th Biennial Exhibition, curated by Lilly Wei, opens Thursday, March 5th and will be up until March 29th. In conjunction with the exhibition, there will be a panel discussion on March 11th at 7pm titled The Market: Women Artists from Studio to Collection with panelists Helen Allen Founder & Owner, PULSE art fair; Rocio Aranda Alverado, curator, Jersey City Museum; Florence Lynch Gallery and artist Mimi Smith at The Tribeca Performing Arts Center. For a complete list of artists included in this exhibition, as well as more info on the panel click here.

(Enid Crow, Chuck, Restaurant Worker, self-portrait from the series Happy Workers, 2008, 30” x 22”. Courtesy of A.I.R. Gallery.)

Home Sweet Home, curated by Ombretta Agro Andruff, is currently up at Dorsky Gallery in Long Island City, Queens. This exhibition explores the repercussions of domestic violence and what happens when the home is no longer a haven. On view until April 12th, Home Sweet Home includes works by Betty Bee, Giulia Caira, Cecilia Lundqvist, Marko Mäetamm,Ronald Moran, Ultra Violet, and Krzysztof Wodiczko.

(Cecilia Lundqvist, still from C, digital video, 2001. Courtesy of the artist.)

Leaf Alter for Nunzia, sculpture and collage by feminist artist Nancy Azara, is currently up at the Maurice N. Flecker Gallery at Suffolk County Community College on Long Island. Check it out before the show closes March 12th!

(Nancy Azara, Leaf Alter for Nunzia, 2004. Courtesy of the Artist.)

Continuing to March 31 is John Kirchner: Unkowns at Conner Contemporary Art in Washington DC. Kirchner converses with unkown 19th century painters by resurrecting these anonymous work with critical and sometimes humorous interventions. Placing clothing and other common objects onto the paintings, the artist grants them a new life to works that would otherwise be discarded.

(John Kirchner, Caro Senorita, 2008, framed oil on canvas + linen handkerchief, 32 x 27 inches. Courtesy of Conner Contemporary Art.)

The opening reception for Jeremy Kost, After the Party, curated by Tim Goossens, is scheduled for Tuesday, March 3rd at 7pm at Dactyl Foundation in Manhattan. Kost works almost exclusively with his Polaroid camera, capturing portraits that bring up questions of beauty and identity. For RSVP info, click here.

(Jeremy Kost: Untitled from After the Party, 2009, original Polaroid. Courtesy of the Artist.)

UN-SCR-1325: An exhibition referencing the UNITED NATIONS SECURITY COUNCIL RESOLUTION 1325, curated by Jan Van Woensel and Vanessa Albury, and featuring the artwork of Vanessa Albury, Claire Beckett, Berlinde De Bruyckere, Jen DeNike, Kathleen Hanna & Becca Albee, Karin Hanssen, Kati Heck, Ann Veronica Janssens, Marie-Jo Lafontaine, Marlene McCarty, Sofie Muller, Adrian Piper, Adie Russell, Leah Singer, Joëlle Tuerlinckx, and Cindy Wright, opens March 6th at the Chelsea Art Museum. Bringing together the artwork of eight Belgian artists and eight American artists, this exhibition references the United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace and Security that was adopted in 2000 and focuses on the position of women in global and local sociopolitical contexts. This show will be up until April 11th.

(Sophie Muller, Nipple Closet, 2007. Courtesy of the artist.)

“Miss Taxi”, a three-channel video and photography installation by artist Cecilia Jurado, is currently featured as part of QUEENS INTERNATIONAL 4, the Queens Museum Biennale. This latest project from Jurado shows images and footage from a beauty pageant held each year in Queens for relatives of taxi workers. This exhibition will be on view until April 26th.

(Cecilia Jurado, Film still from “Miss Taxi”. Courtesy of Y Gallery.)

Our City Dreams, a new documentary by Chiara Clemente, documents the lives of five feminist artists- Swoon, Ghada Amer, Kiki Smith, Marina Abramovic, and Nancy Spero- and is now playing at the Film Forum in Manhattan. Check it out, the last day to see it is February 17th!

(Promotional image for Our City Dreams. Courtesy of the Film Forum.)

IMMATERIAL is in its last week at Black and White Gallery in Chelsea. This show includes artists Kaoru Hirano, Tamara Kostianovsky, Kristian Kozul, Derick Melander, Jason Clay Lewis, Adam Niklewicz, Shimon Okshteyn, and Jean Shin, as well as artist Orly Cogan, whose site specific thread wall drawing, Quantum Entanglement, explores the trappings of womanhood. This show closes February 14th.

(Installation view of Quantum Entanglement, photo by Alessandra Okshteyn. Courtesy of Black and White Gallery.)

The Mood Back Home: An exhibition inspired by Womanhouse opens at Momenta Art in Williamsburg this Friday February 13. Womanhouse was a women-only art installation and performance at a 17 room mansion in 1970s Hollywood, California. Organized by feminist artists Judy Chicago and Miriam Schapiro, Womanhouse used the various rooms of the building to explore household activities and spaces that had been viewed as exclusive to women. The work of Alyson Aliano, Pam Butler, Leslie Brack, Nicole Eisenman, Jessica Jackson Hutchins, Karen Leo, Karyn Olivier, Tara Mateik, Bea Romeo, Suzy Spence, Kirsten Stoltmann, Jeanne Tremel, and Pinar Yolacan, as well as Johanna Demetrakas’s film Womanhouse, 1972, will be featured in this show.

(Leslie Brack, Presenting Three New Lively Ones, oil on canvas, 6″ x 8″, 2008. Courtesy of the Artist.)

Nayland Blake: Behavior, curated by our very own Maura Reilly, is in its last week at Location One in Manhattan. Head over to this great show before it closes February 14th!

(Nayland Blake, Magic, 1991. Courtesy of Location One.)

In honor of International Woman’s Day (March 8th), The Clark Museum in Williamstown, Massachusetts, will be opening Special Installation: Women’s Work on February 21st. The exhibition will feature works on paper from the collection by such trailblazers as Berthe Morisot, Mary Cassatt, Julia Margaret Cameron, and Berenice Abbott.

(Julia Margaret Cameron, The Red and White Roses, 1865. Albumen print. Courtesy of Scottish National Photography Centre.)

Life Has Not Even Begun, a new exhibition featuring the work of artist María Magdelena Campos-Pons, opened recently at Columbia College’s Glass Curtain Gallery in Chicago. In this new body of work, Campos-Pons uses a wide variety of media to investigate how history and memory inform identity. This show will be up until March 6th, so if you are in the area, check it out!

(Postcard Image: María Magdelena Campos-Pons, Prayer for Obama I (detail), 2008, Polaroid prints. Photo by Clements/Howcroft. Courtesy of Columbia College Glass Curtain Gallery.)

Tonight, February 10th, CUNY’s Graduate Center is holding a LGBTQ studies panel on queer South Asian art. Tell Me a Story…, presented by SAWCC (South Asian Women’s Creative Collective) and CLAGS (The Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies), will feature filmmaker/photographer Sonali Gulati, visual artist Chitra Ganesh, performance artist D’Lo, as well as DJ/promoter, Desilicious.

(Sonali Gulati, Film still from Out and About, to be released in 2010. Courtesy of the artist.)

Carolee Schneemann: Painting, What it Became opens Saturday, February 21st at P.P.O.W. in Chelsea. Curated by our very own Maura Reilly, this exhibition explores how Schneeman’s work in a variety of mediums (including performance) remain true to her pictorial, painterly approach to art. This show will be up until March 28th - don’t miss the opening reception this Saturday from 6-8pm!

(Carolee Schneeman, Meat Joy, 1964, gelatin silver print, 23 3/4 x 20 1/4 inches. Courtesy P.P.O.W.)