October 29 � December 5, 2009 Opening Reception: Thursday, October 29, 6-8pm
P�P�O�W Gallery is pleased to announce our eighth solo exhibition with Dotty Attie. This new series of paintings continues to expand on themes that Attie has brought to her work through the past 30 years: gender, politics, and how images often change the context of words. Reminiscent of silent films, each sequence is a still in the life of a boy or a girl whose mother is trying to warn them of their futures if they continue their current behavior. The statement, "Keep That Up Her Mother Said" and conversely, "Keep That Up His Mother Said" is followed by another text a few canvases later that states "And Who Knows What You Could Become." The result of what the girl or the boy will become is significantly different. The "Her" and the "His" is the switch that condemns or condones.
The images are painted from vintage photographs, movie stills and contemporary photographs. They are rendered in her signature palate of black, white and grey, with touches of flesh and rouge. The mixing of old and new images shows how timeless the defining of moral purity and fate based on gender. There are also pop-ins of movie stars, politicians, or something you may think you've seen in a recent magazine or TV show. This recognition emphasizes how these images are and have been ubiquitous through time. The actions of the boys and the girls are seemingly equal and innocent at first: smoking, kissing, gymnastics, but they inevitably diverge, as Attie's panels reveal.
Sometimes the images feel like a scene from a film, but other times like a much more private situation. Attie duplicates an objectification that emphasizes the involvement of the viewer and plays with expectation and voyeurism. The viewer is not so much complicit, as affirming a standard that continues the careless custom of sexism.
Dotty Attie has been exhibiting in museums and galleries worldwide since 1972. Her paintings are in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art, The Whitney Museum, and the Brooklyn Museum, among others.
Concurring with this exhibition in Gallery 2 will be Looking Forward, Feeling Backwards curated by Capricious & Tammy Rae Carland.
October 29 � December 5, 2009 Opening Reception: Thursday, October 29, 6-8pm
P�P�O�W Gallery, in conjunction with Dotty Attie's exhibition, is pleased to present Looking Forward, Feeling Backwards in Gallery 2 curated by Capricious and artist Tammy Rae Carland. This exhibition is inspired by the forthcoming "Feminist Issue" of Capricious Magazine based on an open call for work about feminist feelings.
By insisting that a dialogue on feelings inflames the specter of feminism, and by asking what the world of feelings looks like, the curators have selected photographic and video works that hold potential for transformative ideas and experience. Empathetic vision, relentless loss, identity melancholia, compulsive hope, political depression, retooling trauma, shameless shame and feelings that have no names are all contending with one another in this group show of eight emerging artists. The curatorial selection gives the personal, political, social and emotional equal weight and emphasizes a generational lens on hope, humor and limitless self-invention.
Capricious Publishing was founded by Swedish photographer Sophie M�rner in 2004. It is a biannual publication dedicated to showcasing emerging fine art photography. Its contributors and collaborators span the globe. Capricious has an affinity for subjects such as animals, androgyny, opposition, reclaimed life, lust, natural as well as urban life, intimacy, revolution and nostalgia. Capricious Publishing has since produced GLU (Girls Like Us), LTTR V, Famous and Screen Capricious - a DVD compilation of short films.
Capricious Books is the group's latest endeavor. Their first book "The Known World," is a photographic collaboration by Anne Hall and Sophie M�rner, released in November 2008, and the second is a monograph, also of photographic work, by Dutch artist Melanie Bonajo, "I Have a Room With Everything." Next year Capricious will work together with K8 Hardy to publish her first artist monograph. Capricious Space is located in Brooklyn, NY. Founded in June 2008 as an offshoot of Capricious Magazine, it serves as a physical venue for work of the "capricious" aesthetic.
Tammy Rae Carland was born in Portland Maine in 1965. She received her MFA from UC Irvine, her BA from The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington and attended the Whitney Independent Study Program. She is an Associate Professor at the California College of the Arts where she also chairs the Photography Program. She is represented by Silverman Gallery in San Francisco and primarily works with photography, experimental video and small run publications. Capricious chose to collaborate with her because her work, throughout her career, is seen as pioneering in the realm of contemporary queer and feminist culture.
KUNST HALLE SANKT GALLEN presents David Renggli - Scaramouche
17 August - 27 October 2013
David Renggli - in some respects a prodigy of the Swiss art scene - has repeatedly aroused the curiosity of the public for more than ten years thanks to a unique mixture of themes and forms, of spectacle, humour and poetry.
The Showroom, London presents Ricardo Basbaum: re-projecting (london)
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