May 30 to June 25, 2021
The aesthetics of glamour and excess have long been employed as a means of transgressing norms of moderation and measure, with the potential to function as both a resource for subversion and a source of oppression. These experiential contradictions overwhelm subjects. Feelings of perplexity mark the tension between overlapping, opposing and asymmetric forces of power.
What does it mean to derive pleasure from the always-complicated performance of gender and sexuality? To sometimes revel in the artifice of glamour, beauty and excess?
Seven artists present themes of class, race, queerness, gender exploration, beauty and stereotype. Straddling the lines between tenderness and danger, vulnerability and revolt. Glamour, intimacy and stigma are explored through the lens of portraiture, both photographic and sculptural.
Bathed in the glow of the ring light, we are made-up and undone and mended. Frilled and floral, hairy and beautiful, sometimes staring blankly at the ceiling.
—Laura Carusi
Ring light, x-frame stand, shower curtain, grommets, drawer, glazed stoneware, Cuddly Chenille TM yarn
Variable dimensions
A decade's worth of the artist's household's holey socks darned this past winter, left-over yarn,
self-diagnosed Seasonal Affective Disorder in the context of social isolation,
various plastic hanging devices, chain, S-hooks
Variable dimensions
Found furniture components, mirrored plinth, steel bolt stand, insulation pad, macrame yarn, glazed stoneware
Variable dimensions