The TART Gallery presents women's art from North America This show is in conjunction with the launch of a new book.
"Chick art","girly girl," "good"girl art, whatever you want to label it,it is a genre that defines itself by female artists working with feminine imagery within popular culture. Pin-ups, B-movie girls, centerfolds, cartoon heroines, singers and movie stars become inspirational as the strong female,independent and in control of their sexuality (often with an attitude.) A sometimes misunderstood genre due to the association of the imagery from a male perspective. Some feel these sexually charged works objectify women, others find it empowering....the appropriation of pin-ups as icons of strong sexuality by women reclaiming the imagery. Whatever your views this movement is here to stay and it's growing.
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"Vicious,Delicious and Ambitious Ladies:20th Century Women Artists" by Schiffer Books
Dripping with rich color, below-the-belt attitude and street-level sensibilities and style, lowbrow art has been custom-built around racy cars and even racier women. It offers a sexual and snarling, big-toothed space age gape, lots of muscular torque and a fast getaway. Lowbrow is a genre in which there are no rules. This stuff hangs on walls and glares at you like a freshly purple and pulsing bruise. You might not want to look, but you do anyway. It's that compelling.
The best twist of it all? Ladies. No longer solely created by and for the "big daddies," lowbrow art has seen the transformation from gals simply being the voluptuous subjects on the canvas to women gracefully mastering the hand and imagination behind the brush. These driven ladies continue to wink at everything bawdy and gawdy, while they woo thousands with their distinctly feminine approach to the once-outsider art.
And they are only gathering steam. Vicious, Delicious and Ambitious
Ladies offers over 200 full-color images, essays from Anthony Ausgang and
Chris Pfouts, and the individual stories of 20 female artists, written by
Sherri Cullison. Nowhere else can you find the lowdown in lowbrow, replete
with the lewd, the luscious and the ladies who love it.
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Art Exhibit
Art Opening and Book Signing
Saturday November 23 ,2002 7-10pm
Featuring work by :
October 17-Nov. 2
Ne Plus Ultra-Project Space
1080 Queen St W. Toronto,Canada
Thursday October 17 2002
7-10pm
Third Avenue Gallery
1725 W. Third Avenue,Vancouver BC
Kirsten Easthope (Colorado)
Lisa Petrucci (Seattle)
Sunny Buick (San Francisco)
Andrea Tucker (Vancouver)
Nicole Steen (Vancouver)
Vicki M. (Vancouver)
Sharon Leong(San Francisco)
Annette Hassell(Los Angeles)
Stacy Lande(Los Angeles)
Christine Karas(Pasadena)
Isabel Samaras(Los Angeles)
Dragonfly(New York)
Rebecca 7(Los Angeles)
