LOSING YOURSELF IN THE 21ST CENTURY Exhibition

January 19, 2010

Maryland Art Place, Baltimore

February 4 – March 27, 2010

Featured artists:
Katherine Behar, New York | Amber Boardman, New York | Milana Braslavsky, Baltimore | Kate Hers, Berlin/LA | Susan Lee-Chun, Miami | Noelle Mason, Tampa | Shana Moulton, Brooklyn | Renetta Sitoy, Bay Area, CA | Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum, Baltimore | Amber Hawk Swanson, New York | Stacia Yeapanis, Chicago | Saya Woolfalk, New York
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Announcing Artist selection for Losing Yourself in the 21st century Exhibition!

July 19, 2009

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Dear Artists,
Thank you all for your participation on the project thus far. It’s been exciting for us!

We’re pleased to announce the artists selected for the exhibitions to take place in Atlanta at Georgia State University’s Welch School Gallery (October-November 2009) and in Baltimore at Maryland Art Place (January-March 2010).

Please check back here for details on the exhibition and event schedule.

Katherine Behar
Amber Boardman
Milana Braslavsky
Estherka Projekt
Susan Lee-Chun
Noelle Mason
Shana Moulton
Ali Prosch
Renetta Sitoy
Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum
Amber Hawk Swanson
Saya Woolfalk
Stacia Yeapanis

Meanwhile, the site has created a life of its own! We encourage you to continue posting on losingyourself.com, and look forward to hearing from you.

Our best,

Cathy, Susan and Jillian

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Jodie Pellish

September 30, 2009
Installation View

(Re)Evolving Door

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Jessica Wohl

August 9, 2009
2009. ink and graphite on mylar, 42 x 38 inches.

2009. ink and graphite on mylar, 42 x 38 inches.

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Kristin Anderson

July 29, 2009
"Angels" Porcelain angels, marble mortar & pestle, 5 x 7 x 4.5 inches, 2009

"Angels" Porcelain angels, marble mortar & pestle, 5 x 7 x 4.5 inches, 2009

One angel conveniently turns her back towards her crushed sister, demurely playing the expected role to the same forces that could destroy her too.

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Noelle Mason

July 26, 2009
LAN Party or "National Take Your Daughter to Work Day"

LAN Party or “National Take Your Daughter to Work Day

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Maggie Percell

July 21, 2009
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Loss of Self 2

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Jenny Kendler

July 17, 2009

Mounting

Mounting, hand-sculpted plasticine figure, lipstick, iridescent pigment and Arizona quartz in scientific bell-jar 12" x 7" x 7"

People often identify the Earth as being feminine, in idea or sometimes in literal “flesh”. Take for example, the famous Gaia, or the many stories, such as the Hellenic origin myths, of the Earth represented literally or figuratively as a female goddess. What does it mean to identify the planet on which we live with a particular gender? How should we take this today, when the “body” of the Earth is plowed, mined, and otherwise despoiled? Is gender a factor in how we treat the Earth?

A glittering peak of  quartz crystals, are mounted, in a sexually suggestive way, by a painstakingly sculpted tiny female figure. Whether this piece represents an “Earth Goddess” bonding with the Earth, a cheeky poke at an outdated stereotype, a woman gyrating on a feminized phallic symbol, or a third-wave re-embrasure of ‘feminine’ ideals, remains up to the viewer to decide.

This piece will be included in the upcoming show RE:figure at Columbia College’s Glass Curtain Gallery, in which LY artists Stacia Yeapanis and Amber Hawk Swanson will also be participating.

More of my work can be seen at jennykendler.com

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Denise Prince

July 11, 2009
still form beck video

still from beck video

Strangely, three people told Prince she looked like Mick Jagger in her “Beck video” and she doesn’t. So, her willingness to not look good becomes a naked humanity converted into courage – as bravado? The piece plays with vulnerability and confidence as Prince details her unspeakable belief in the potential for intimacy with a rock star she was once acquainted with. The piece also plays as challenge. To believe wholly in oneself. And to believe in one’s whole self, pushing past unnecessary parts of shame.

The piece can be seen under portfolio one at http://www.deniseprince.com – the third miniature square at the bottom of the page.

“Your video is excellent; very raw, mysterious, revealing, complex, and vulnerable, radically vulnerable. You are telling your secrets while keeping them secret… Way to go.” Jerry Saltz, New York Magazine

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Rose M Barron

July 10, 2009
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“Lena” from the Southern Portraiture Series

I have obsessively photographed my children since they were babies. Now that they are in their teenage years, I find that examining their identities as well as those of their friends through photography is fascinating.Youth can be seen as a time of searching for identity, during a time in which we also are being consumed socially and culturally with beauty and image. It is a time for exploring new possibilities, experiences and choices. While it is a time of prime physical condition and vitality, it is also a time of uncertainty. I find these concepts to be a common thread in this series of work.

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