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Four new shows opening this summer in Los Angeles and New York reverse the male gaze to explore what happens when women do the looking — at other women, at men, and at themselves.
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10 Opening Exhibitions to Watch
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Coinciding with the onset of fall auction season, a variety of innovative events featuring the works of contemporary African-American artists explore how the concept of race has affected the world of art. Two must-see shows: 30 Americans, opening at Washington, D.C.’s Corcoran Gallery of Art on October 1st and the Hammer Museum’s Now Dig This! Art and Black Los Angeles 1960-1980, running from October 2nd until January 8th.
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II. After my visit to the New Museum, I headed uptown to the Studio Museum in Harlem. What stood out to me at the Studio Museum were a series of sculptures
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On Tuesday the Moving Image fair, which is devoted to video, film, animation, projections, and all other manner of, well, moving images, announced the artists and dealers who will be showcased during its upcoming London edition
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Lauren Kelley (b. 1975, Baltimore, Maryland) uses stop-motion animation to explore stereotypes of femininity and race. By using her voice to speak for a cast of black dolls, Kelley breathes life into plastic characters while poignantly and humorously addressing issues such as gender, womanhood, and the human condition. Whether telling stories of unplanned pregnancy or exploring the world of flight attendants, Kelley’s work introduces its viewers to a world in which dolls and puppets are caught in endless streams of consciousness and are trapped in a bizarre theater of the absurd.
Kelley received a BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD (1997) and an MFA from the School of Art Institute of Chicago, Chicagoo, IL (1999). She has studied at the prestigious Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, Maine (2007) and is currently a resident artist at the CORE Program, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston, TX. Selected exhibitions include Brand New Heavies, (curated by Mickalene Thomas), Collette Blanchard Gallery, New York, NY (2009) Rupture in Rapture, Arthouse, Austin, TX (2008); 2008 Altoids Awards, New Museum, NY (2008); Reality Testing, LACE, Los Angeles, CA (2008); Cinema Remixed and Reloaded Black Women Artists and the Moving Image Since 1970, Spellman College Museum of Fine Art, Atlanta, GA (2008); Nexus Texas, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX (2007); Lone Star. Museo de la Nacion, Lima, Peru (2007); Drawing Between, Lawndale Art Center, Houston, TX (2006); Burnt, Fried, Pulled, Curled, (curated by Dawoud Bey), Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL (2002). Selected Awards/Grants include Altoids Award (2008); Creative Capital Artist Retreat (2005); and the Illinois Arts Council-Interdisciplinary Fellowship, Chicago IL (2002).
Lauren Kelley currently lives and works in Houston, TX.
For additional information about this artist, visit Mutual Art
