Selected Exhibitions
Investigations of Place
1x1 Series
May 6 – September 13, 2009
Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, NJ
Curatorial Statement by Guest Curator, Natalie McKeever:
“Author and theorist Lucy Lippard defines ‘place’ as ‘space plus memory.’ Separate from landscape art, investigations of place explore how the landscapes of personal places such as homelands, childhood homes, ancestral spaces, and places of exile take on new forms when combined with memories and individual experiences. The videos selected for "Investigations of Place" illustrate personal narratives imprinted on landscapes, and landscapes imprinted on personal narratives, videos that use experimental imagery to explore how spaces are remade once they are remaining in the mind, and videos that strive to define and delve into the concept of place.
Artists in the exhibition include Adebukola Bodunrin, Sean Capone, Brian Gibson, Amy Ho, Natalie McKeever, Karl J. Mendonca, Priya Nadkarni, Matt Ortega, Trina Rodriguez, Jeff Thompson, and Wade Tillet.”
NEVER HAS SHE EVER….
Featuring: Shanell Betts, Donna Brown, Jamie Bruno, Susanna Coffey, Renee Cox, Lauren Kelly, Priya Nadkarni, Hanneline Rogeberg, Pamela Phatismo Sunstrum, Cauleen Smith
Curated by LaToya Ruby Frazier
Tuesday, October 14th – Friday, October 31st, 2008
Mason Gross Galleries, Rutgers University
“Mason Gross School of the Arts Galleries at Rutgers University, in collaboration with the Judith K. and David J. Brodsky Center for Innovative Editions at Rutgers and the Institute For Women and Art, is pleased to present Never Has She Ever…. an exhibition featuring 10 women artists re-representing the female gaze and figure twisting and challenging internalized notions of beauty and womanhood. This intergenerational exhibit brings together artists working in diverse media and techniques: photography, painting, drawing, installations, film and video.
The Female Gaze is a critical feminist discourse contesting the sexually objectified female figure and her role, heavily discussed by feminist film critic Laura Mulvey in her essay ‘Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema’ and feminist theorist bell hooks' essay ‘The Oppositional Gaze: The Black Female Spectators.’ Both Mulvey and hooks scrutinize the voyeuristic psychosexual visual pleasures of the male gaze. hooks further complicates the Female Gaze by citing the absence of the Black Female entirely on the screen or in the audience. Once one has internalized, read and understand feminist objection to the dominant male gaze imposed upon women in visual culture the only thing left is to witness the Female impersonate Female. Through her new role and figure never has she ever looked better.”
Sponsors:
Department of Visual Arts, Mason Gross School of the Arts; Institute for Women & Art with the Mary H. Dana Women Artists Series in partnership with the Rutgers University Libraries; and the Office of the Dean of Mason Gross School of the Arts.
The Feminist Art Exhibition Space: Priya Nadkarni
Women's Center, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
April 17 - April 24, 2008
A series of featured artists who are making work surrounding issues of gender and sexual identity. The series is curated by Alana Integlia at the Women's Center in Rutgers University.
