EG: (r)Evolution of Gender
A Visual Arts Exhibition Exploring Gender Identity
June 6 - 29, 2003
SomArts - Rear Gallery
934 Brannan @ 8th Street, San Francisco, CA
Featuring work by:
Tammy Rae Carland, Jordy Jones, Eliot K Daughtry, Jenny Michals,
Kriss De Jong, Hien Nguyen, Teri Claude Dowling, Tim Taylor.
Curated by Eliot K Daughtry and Kriss De Jong of Killer Banshee Studios
Outside of constraint visited on mainstream concepts of gender, the queer continuum revels in paradox, defying definition. Presented as part of the National Queer Arts Festival 2003, EG: (r)Evolution of Gender tracks the influence of gender identity on artists and their work. In this curated exhibition, eight artists will show works with different perspectives on gender identity, roles and their own relative gender positions. Subject matter ranges from androgynous and deliberately non-gendered to the ephemera of gender transition. Some artists will show work from multiple series, revealing changes in their own experiences with gender. Others will display work that seeks to expand the boundaries of gender perception and self-identity.
Represented disciplines include photography, painting, multimedia and sculpture. Abstract narrative combines with found objects, reinterpretation, and the politic of theory. Each artist explores gender from a different point of view and cultural investment. Carland reinvents personal history by playing both the role of her mother and father, and Dowling suggests dualities created with prosthetics. Taylor and Jones use charged common objects to rework the lines of cultural politics in their art. De Jong and Michals create deliberate images of non-defined gender, while Nguyen and Daughtry chronicle a shift away from androgyny to explore male sexuality.
Gender identity no longer begins with simple male/female constructs and juxtapositions, and it does not end at the doorstep of transgender. EG: (r)Evolution of Gender provides visual testimony from this dedicated group of artists working within queer culture to expose the riches of the gender experience.
Opening Reception:
Friday, June 6 at 6:00pm
Guided Gallery Tour & Discussion:
Saturday, June 14 at 3:00pm
SomArts Gallery hours are Tuesday to Saturday, Noon-4pm. The Gallery is accessible by wheelchair.
More information is available at http://www.killerbanshee.com/evolutionofgender.
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