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Gender Assignment: Melissa Potter’s Exhibition at Zvono Gallery in Belgrade Serbia
February 06, 2011
Flowers for Slobo in Schwarzkopf Violet, Schwarzkopf hair dye on 30 x 40 handmade paper, 2010.
Melissa Potter’s new work was shown at Zvono Gallery, in Belgrade Serbia, this past Novebember. The exhibition featured Flowers for Slobo in Schwarzkopf, a series painted with Eastern European hair dye made by the brand, Schwarzkopf; Pimp My Ride, a series of photographs and video made in the Mexican neighborhood of Pilsen, Chicago; Maybe Mom, a saliva ovulation test system translated into paintings and Gender Assignment in which Potter and Kitty Hubbard administered the BEM Sex Role Inventory test on students and explored the results in a print-on-demand book.
Swinging Little Lamb, circa 1974, feminine traits for book, Gender Assignment, 2010.
There was a peformance on the night of the opening Gender Assignment: Zvono Gallery attendee had access to a Serbian translated version of The BEM Sex Role Inventory test. Anonymous test results will be displayed on the wall of the gallery for the exhibition. A print-on-demand book will explore the gender analysis of Zvono gallery goers.
ZVONO Gallery
Visnjiceva 5, Belgrade
Working hours: Monday – Friday: 12:00 – 19:00 h Saturday: 12:00 – 16:00 h
Zvono Gallery For further information contact Zvono Director, Ljiljana Tadic
phone/fax: +381 11 2625 243 mobile: +381 64 235 08 66
email: galerijazvono@gmail.com
Miriam Schaer Interview in Chicago Publishes
Batter My Heart: A Wall Street Valentine is featured, with an interview of Miriam Schaer on Chicago Publishes!
Pulp: A Love Story My Serbian Affair With Papermaking Now Available on Lulu.com
January 31, 2011
Melissa Potter’s Pulp, A Love Story: My Serbian Affair With Papermaking is now available!
Papermaking in Serbia? For more than ten years, artist Melissa Potter has had to explain what she does for a living-wherever she does it. Through professor Vlada VeljaseviÄâs illustrations and storyline, this book chronicles Potterâs Fulbright award adventures:
Everyday Fictions: Artist Books and Other work by Miriam Schaer and Susan Newmark
EVERYDAY FICTIONS: ARTISTS BOOKS AND OTHER WORK BY MIRIAM SCHAER & SUSAN NEWMARK
January 26 – March 2, 2011
Receptions:
Monday, January 31, 5:30 – 8 pm & Saturday, February 12, 12 – 3 pm.
Gallery Talk: Tues, February 8, 12:40 pm
St. Joseph’s College
Alumni Room Gallery, Tuohy Hall
245 Clinton Avenue, between Willoughby and DeKalb Avenues, Brooklyn, NY
Gallery Hours: Wed, 4 – 8 pm and Sat, 12– 3 pm, and by appointment.
Directions: Take the G train to Clinton/Washington Ave stop
For information: 718-399-0358 www.sjcny.edu
Maria The Korean Bride Gets Married Again!
As Maria The Korean Bride nears her goal of getting married in all 50 States, check her website to see her most recent weddings!
Miriam Schaer on Nanomajority
Miriam Schaer’s new project Baby (Not) on Board: The Last Prejudice?, addresses the question of why the existence of women who choose maternal independence over child-rearing angers or offends so many people and institutions. It is now up on Nanomajority.com
Please feel free to contribute to the conversation!
Kate Clark on Nanomajority
Kate Clark’s powerful work that combines animal and human elements is now up on-line on Nanomajority.com
Studying the tension between personal and mythical realms, Clark creates sculpture that synthesizes the human face into the body of wild animals. Initially, these forms can be shocking and repelling as viewers both recognize and reject their presence. The disruptive alignment of the intimate face and animal body asserts that human experience is mostly contained, a mask which is incomprehensible and psychologically complex.
Please contribute to the conversation!
Art 364B on Nanomajority.com
September 10, 2010
Art364B is pleased to announce we will be the focus of an on-line exhibition on Nanomajority.com. Each member will be featured for the next seven months. This month, curator and critic Jennifer Musawwir introduces Art364B and outlines the project for the coming months.
Please check in often to see what progress and conversation ensues.
Melissa Potter’s film project, Ammunition for the Virgin, received fund from the Ministry of Culture of Serbia!
May 07, 2010
Melissa Potter’s film project, Ammunition for the Virgin has been awarded generous support from the Ministry of Culture, Serbia. Ammunition for the Virgin is a 20-minute video animation project in progress focusing on diverse young women in FR Yugoslavia and their choices today in contrast with Stana Cerovic, the reported “last sworn virgin” in Montenegro.
In a rare Balkan tradition, Stana Cerovic took an oath to be raised as a boy and forsake marriage in order to inherit family property. Interviews with women have been conducted the Youth Initiative for Human Rights, former students from the Fine Arts Academy, a graffiti artist, and the Roma community. For further information, please contact Melissa Potter at mpotter@colum.edu.
Jennifer Musawwir’s article in N. Paradoxa!
April 26, 2010
We are pleased to let you know that Jennifer Musawwir’s article on Feminist Art Journals in the US, in the 1970s and 80s, I’d Like to Be a Subscriber! is in the current issue of N. Paradoxa.
You can read it here:
n.paradoxa website at www.ktpress.co.uk