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Date: 09/05/2012 11:26AM
Subject: Fw: Allyson Mitchell at Katharine Mulherin Contemporary Art Projects September 6 -30, 2012
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Please join us for the opening reception of Allyson Mitchell, Creep Lez on Thursday, September 6, 6-9 PM, at Katharine Mulherin Contemporary Art Projects, Toronto.
Allyson Mitchell, Fifty Shades
36x23 inches
found craft
2012
Creep Lez continues Allyson Mitchell’s investigations of queer theory as sculptural material, activist emotions and academic tangles. In her first solo exhibition with Katharine Mulherin Contemporary Art Projects, Mitchell pops the top right off the popper by initiating five new artistic trajectories. The work uses text, textile and technology to cut to the quick of wordy theorists with tangled tongues.
“Central Core Imagrah” corks feminist art histories and inherited legacies in felt, macramé and photography. “Sorry Butt This Venis Is a Pagina” gives real estate to gender incoherence using day glow plastic canvas and a floor to ceiling stance. Inspired by comments made about the artist on ratemyprofessor.com the piece “I’m With Problematic” asks: “How do we both resist and reconcile our participation in oppressive systems?” Continuing in this acknowledgement of the dilemmas of feminist and queer cultural participation, “Fifty Shades”, a framed textile original and limited edition photo print, visualizes the “the body” as sign vs. symbol. The exhibition is rounded out with a series of paintings titled “Sheila Pepe’s Moutache” inspired by dyke iconography, verve and virility.
Enraged alongside homicidal lesbian terrorist Hot Head Paisan and soothed by tie die west coast fashion flow, craft forward feminist Mitchell decentralizes the canon and ups the ante on the promise and possibility of “pussy” art in her new exhibition Creep Lez.
Allyson Mitchell is a maximalist artist working in sculpture, performance, installation, and film. Her work has exhibited in numerous venues including the Textile Museum of Canada, the Winnipeg Art Gallery, the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Warhol Museum, Tate Modern and the British Film Institute. She is based in Toronto, where she is an Assistant Professor in the School of Women’s Studies at York University and runs FAG, a feminist art gallery with Deirdre Logue. www.allysonmitchell.com
KATHARINE MULHERIN CONTEMPORARY ART PROJECTS
1082 + 1086 Queen Street West, Toronto, Canada
September 6 - 30, 2012
Gallery Hours:
Thursday/Friday to Saturday 12-6 PM,
Sunday 1-5 PM,
or by appointment
To view works for these upcoming exhibitions, see http://www.katharinemulherin.com/dynamic/exhibit_artist.asp?ExhibitID=428&Exhibit=Upcoming
Please direct all inquiries to Katharine Mulherin at 416.993.6510 or email [log in to unmask].
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