upcoming show: "Take 2" in January

"Wertschafts-werte (Economic Values)" 2003

Huzzah! I'm busy prepping for another show that opens in January, "Take 2", and features Cindy Sherman, Janine Antoni, and Kara Walker, among others. Nice lineup :) I'll have quite a bit of work in it, and am recreating a work from 2003, Wertschafts-Werte (Economic Values), so there's been a lot to do. Curated by Janet Bishop from SFMOMA. Will post again as it draws nearer.

Read the press release in the link below...



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Take 2: Women Revisiting Art History
Organized by Janet Bishop, curator of painting and sculpture, SFMOMA
January 17–March 15, 2007
Mills College Art Museum
Oakland, CA

Oakland, CA - The Mills College Art Museum will feature a provocative major exhibition, featuring nine internationally recognized contemporary women artists, from January 17–March 15, 2007. Entitled Take 2: Women Revisiting Art History, the show will be organized by Janet Bishop, curator of painting and sculpture at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

Presented in conjunction with a search for a new director and plans for a significant expansion of the Mills College Art Museum, the exhibition will focus on artists forging compelling new territory by working with existing conventions and “repurposing” them to new ends. A public reception for Take 2 will be held on January 17 in the Museum from 5:30 pm–7pm.

According to Bishop, “Take 2 presents the work of prominent women artists whose artistic strategies include reinventing established art historical conventions. The exhibition examines the conceptual, political, and often very personal motivations for the use of visual tropes ranging from scientific drawings, silhouettes, and South Asian miniatures to traditions and icons within western art history.”

The artists featured in Take 2 are:

Janine Antoni (b. 1974, the Bahamas; lives and works in New York; photography and sculpture)

Beate Gutschow (b. 1970 Mainz, Germany; lives and works in Berlin; photography)

Sherrie Levine (b. 1947 Hazleton, Pennsylvania; lives and works in New York; sculpture, photographs, and works on paper)

Cindy Sherman (b. 1954 Glen Ridge, New Jersey; lives and works in New York; photographs)

Shahzia Sikander (b. 1969 Lahore, Pakistan; lives and works in New York; works on paper)

Stephanie Syjuco (b. 1974 Manila, Philippines; lives and works in San Francisco; sculpture and works on paper)

Sam Taylor-Wood (b. 1967 London; lives and works in London; films)

Catherine Wagner (b. 1953 San Francisco; lives and works in San Francisco; photographs)

Kara Walker (b. 1969 Stockton; lives and works in New York; works on paper)

Bishop points out several exhibition highlights: “Through sculptural pieces based on a billiard table in a Man Ray painting or Duchamp’s famous Large Glass, Sherrie Levine complicates issues of gender and authorship via direct riffs on the work of canonized male artists. Stephanie Syjuco points to the strange and unfamiliar nature of contemporary technological hardware through prints that treat their parts like botanical specimens. Catherine Wagner presents photographs from her project titled Re-Classifying History, in which chairs from the de Young Museum’s decorative arts collection serve as surrogates to explore human relationships.

“In addition, Walker makes provocative cut paper pieces inspired by Victorian silhouettes to focus on issues of race, violence, and slavery in the antebellum South, and Shahzia Sikander fuses elements from the ancient practice of miniature painting and contemporary western culture in small-format works that function metaphorically in a permeable global society. The exhibition will also include photographs by Beate Gutschow, Cindy Sherman, and Janine Antoni, as well as film by Sam Taylor-Wood, all of which explore classic subjects within European painting such as landscape, still life, portraiture, biblical characters, and genre painting.”

A 64-page catalogue written by Janet Bishop will accompany the exhibit.

Janet Bishop’s recent projects have included the nationally touring exhibition Robert Bechtle: A Retrospective (2005-6). She was part of the curatorial teams for 010101—Art in Technological Times (2001) and Present Tense: Nine Artists in the Nineties (1997). She is currently working on a major retrospective of the work of David Park, an exhibition celebrating SFMOMA’s 75th anniversary, and an exhibition reuniting the modernist collections of Gertrude Stein and her siblings.

Take 2: Women Revisiting Art History is free and open to the public at the Mills College Art Museum, 5000 MacArthur Blvd, Oakland, CA 94613. Museum hours: Tuesdays, and Thursday through Saturday 11–4 pm; Wednesday 11–7:30 pm, Sunday 12–4 pm.