ARTISTS
Wynne Greenwood, Lara Kim, Jenine Marsh, Anna Sew Hoy, Emily Mae Smith
Fourteen30 Contemporary is pleased to present the group exhibition Mrs. Benway, with work by Wynne Greenwood, Lara Kim, Jenine Marsh, Anna Sew Hoy, and Emily Mae Smith. The exhibition will be held September 19 鈥� November 1, 2015, and an Opening Reception held on Friday, September 25th, 6 to 8pm.
Titled after Jutta Koether鈥檚 column in the formerly Cologne-based periodical Spex, Mrs. Benway is a glimpse into the contemporary form of identity and arts creation 鈥� perhaps better thought of as a freedom of form, both in style and politics. Koether鈥檚 column, published 1985-1990, continuing the hybridity common within the Cologne art scene at that time, drew from a motley body of influences, ranging from daily observations, fine arts, film and literature. Similarly, the artists presented in Mrs. Benway produce work with an understanding of the multitude of artistic, female, and queered modes of existence.
The objects, videos and photographs of Wynne Greenwood embody the complexities of contemporary queerness, blurring the distinctions between classicism and punk, universal and personal. Greenwood addresses both the internal conditions of emotional identification, along with an outward perception of the body's politics.
Lara Kim鈥檚 sculptural works inhabit and explore the liminal space existing between binaries of identity. Frequently made of perishable foodstuffs from Asian markets alongside items sourced from her home and body, her work transverses definitions of found-sculpture and material manipulation. Both Kim and Greenwood mirror the composite and bifurcated identifications contained within their own multiracial and queer womanhood, resulting in works that allegorize the body and life of a subject rebelling against sociocultural norms. The work of Emily Mae Smith feeds off the pop-sensibility of appropriation and simplification through cartoon, and develops it into a playful and incisive mode of critique towards art history and art viewership. Her use of art nouveau-style alongside anthropomorphized objects humorously point to the minimal requirements of bodily identification; requiring little more than the suggestion of limbs and a humanized posture to present cartoonish but recognizably human roles.
Jenine Marsh鈥檚 approach to sculpture implicates the surface of her works as the site of inquisition, disfigurement and liberation. Considering the sculptural surface as analogous to the surface of the body, skin, Marsh's works play with the notions of identity through materiality. In her manipulation of the variety of materials used, her works empathetically react to the artist鈥檚 hand that forms them. Similarly, Anna Sew Hoy鈥檚 creation of organic forms results in sculptures that appear birthed of natural evolution and growth in their
weathered, lived quality. Ranging in complexity and shape, each of her works conveys their own living form through qualities of surface and material. Drawing from a variety of media, Mrs. Benway presents the wholeness that results from the constituent potentials of womanhood embodied through artists, mothers, performers, writers and musicians.
Recommended for you
Fourteen30 Contemporary is pleased to present the group exhibition Mrs. Benway, with work by Wynne Greenwood, Lara Kim, Jenine Marsh, Anna Sew Hoy, and Emily Mae Smith. The exhibition will be held September 19 鈥� November 1, 2015, and an Opening Reception held on Friday, September 25th, 6 to 8pm.
Titled after Jutta Koether鈥檚 column in the formerly Cologne-based periodical Spex, Mrs. Benway is a glimpse into the contemporary form of identity and arts creation 鈥� perhaps better thought of as a freedom of form, both in style and politics. Koether鈥檚 column, published 1985-1990, continuing the hybridity common within the Cologne art scene at that time, drew from a motley body of influences, ranging from daily observations, fine arts, film and literature. Similarly, the artists presented in Mrs. Benway produce work with an understanding of the multitude of artistic, female, and queered modes of existence.
The objects, videos and photographs of Wynne Greenwood embody the complexities of contemporary queerness, blurring the distinctions between classicism and punk, universal and personal. Greenwood addresses both the internal conditions of emotional identification, along with an outward perception of the body's politics.
Lara Kim鈥檚 sculptural works inhabit and explore the liminal space existing between binaries of identity. Frequently made of perishable foodstuffs from Asian markets alongside items sourced from her home and body, her work transverses definitions of found-sculpture and material manipulation. Both Kim and Greenwood mirror the composite and bifurcated identifications contained within their own multiracial and queer womanhood, resulting in works that allegorize the body and life of a subject rebelling against sociocultural norms. The work of Emily Mae Smith feeds off the pop-sensibility of appropriation and simplification through cartoon, and develops it into a playful and incisive mode of critique towards art history and art viewership. Her use of art nouveau-style alongside anthropomorphized objects humorously point to the minimal requirements of bodily identification; requiring little more than the suggestion of limbs and a humanized posture to present cartoonish but recognizably human roles.
Jenine Marsh鈥檚 approach to sculpture implicates the surface of her works as the site of inquisition, disfigurement and liberation. Considering the sculptural surface as analogous to the surface of the body, skin, Marsh's works play with the notions of identity through materiality. In her manipulation of the variety of materials used, her works empathetically react to the artist鈥檚 hand that forms them. Similarly, Anna Sew Hoy鈥檚 creation of organic forms results in sculptures that appear birthed of natural evolution and growth in their
weathered, lived quality. Ranging in complexity and shape, each of her works conveys their own living form through qualities of surface and material. Drawing from a variety of media, Mrs. Benway presents the wholeness that results from the constituent potentials of womanhood embodied through artists, mothers, performers, writers and musicians.
Artists on show
What's on nearby
