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Vaginal Davis: An Invitation to the Dance
Adams and Ollman is pleased to announce An Invitation to the Dance, Vaginal Davis鈥� first solo exhibition in Portland, Oregon, on view at the gallery from September 13 through October 20, 2018. Davis鈥� exuberant work incorporates a variety of mediums including performance, music, paintings, sculpture, and film, all imbued with the artist鈥檚 uncompromising politics, resourcefulness, and humor. Included in the show will be an early video work and new makeup paintings along with a wall mural, marking the artist鈥檚 first time working in this format.
With the title of the exhibition, Davis, a scholar and archivist of early and obscure cinema and Hollywood history, nods to her Los Angeles roots and pays homage to Gene Kelly鈥檚 mid-century film of the same title, a box office failure whose story is told entirely through dance and mime. Hard times are tempered with play; throughout Davis鈥� short film, the dialogue revolves around struggle, poverty, and hardship. These are transcended, however, by a belief in the possibility of redemption, in this case through dance.
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Adams and Ollman is pleased to announce An Invitation to the Dance, Vaginal Davis鈥� first solo exhibition in Portland, Oregon, on view at the gallery from September 13 through October 20, 2018. Davis鈥� exuberant work incorporates a variety of mediums including performance, music, paintings, sculpture, and film, all imbued with the artist鈥檚 uncompromising politics, resourcefulness, and humor. Included in the show will be an early video work and new makeup paintings along with a wall mural, marking the artist鈥檚 first time working in this format.
With the title of the exhibition, Davis, a scholar and archivist of early and obscure cinema and Hollywood history, nods to her Los Angeles roots and pays homage to Gene Kelly鈥檚 mid-century film of the same title, a box office failure whose story is told entirely through dance and mime. Hard times are tempered with play; throughout Davis鈥� short film, the dialogue revolves around struggle, poverty, and hardship. These are transcended, however, by a belief in the possibility of redemption, in this case through dance.
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