Dec 12th 2014

Effeminaries

@ Western Exhibitions

845 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago IL

Opening Friday, December 12th, from 5PM - 8PM

On view through Friday, January 24th

The exhibition Effeminaries explores where gestures in artistic production—composed from abstractions, particular materialities, and quoted fragments of language—carry with them codes of gendered behavior. It tracks such moves through works intoned with flamboyant camp and melodrama, as well as projects styled after reactionary aesthetic movements like post-minimalism’s blousy responses to its stern predecessor, minimalism. Once given physical form, these questions cut across intersecting problems of race, biologically assigned sex, class, and the autonomy of a discrete subject. Effeminaries is an assemblage of cultural artifacts drawn from iconic female protagonists in film, interior decoration and lifestyle brands, propaganda from liberation politics and consumer goods.

“Effeminaries”
Cameron Crawford
Danielle Dean
Chris Edwards
Greg Ito
Kacie Lambert
Joel Parsons
Curated by Matt Morris

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