"Part of a pioneering movement."
TODAY SHOW
My Solo Exhibition YOU ARE HERE at Nancy Hoffman Gallery in Chelsea,
New York, 520 West 27 Street is on view one more week until until Oct 19th.
It was so great to see both Artforum and Artnet include the exhibition on their "Must See" List in NYC. The image Artnet selected is a photograph from my time-based media work, A Female Gaze Into History, a video projection onto a tree ring.
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Below is an image of the artwork in the gallery, but the full experience is to see it in motion, in person, so you can get the full gestalt.
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Below is a sculpture from the show, Dendrofemonology: A Feminist History Tree Ring, a distillation of 50,000 years of feminist history. It was installed on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. last fall and was in Madison Square Park on September 21st for A Mobilization for Women's Right's and the Planet to kick off Climate Week. I am donating edition 2/4 of a framed photograph of the tree ring to the Artists for Kamala Art Auction which goes live on Oct 1st.
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Below is a 7-min film I made about the creative process and thinking behind this artwork and it's movable monument journey.
For A Mobilization for Women’s Rights and the Planet, when the sculpture was in Madison Square Park, there was an inspiring program featuring the Tony-Award winning musical SUFFS and everyone was invited to wear white in honor of the suffragists movement to get the right to vote.
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Hundreds of us then walked through the streets of New York to the High Line and then to Nancy Hoffman Gallery for an artist tour. Our partners include Women Connect4Good, Project Dandelion, Vital Voices, Vote Run Lead, WECAN, Vote for Your Daughter, Gender Fair, NY Equal Rights, Take the Lead, ERA Coalition, Daughters for Earth, Level Forward, NOW, and Alice Paul Institute. Ms. Magazine's wrote a comprehensive article about the movable monument journey its installation on the National Mall in Washington D.C. last fall to NYC this past week as a catalyst for feminist groups to convene. You can read the Ms. Magazine article here and more highlights from the mobilization here.
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One of the other tree rings sculptures in the show is called We Are Here about the cycle of war and peace we can't seem to get out of.
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Below is one of my photographs and the miniature sculpture - Nothing and Everything.
So much of this work is about how a change in scale in time and space changes your perspective, so I love the way having my miniature sculptures next to each work reinforces this idea.
Below is one of my light boxes, Over a Million Earths Can Fit Into the Sun, with a miniature to its left.
These are seven of the twenty artworks in the show that include large-scale tree ring sculptures, miniatures, light boxes, photography, and time-based media. This fall I also have my joint exhibition for Getty's PST ART Art & Science Collide exhibition Ancient Wisdom for a Future Ecology: Trees. Time & Technology with Ken Goldberg opens at the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles on Oct 17th. More info here.
