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For
more information contact:
Eliot K Daughtry & Kriss De Jong
E: evolutionofgender@killerbanshee.com
P: 510.444.2649
W: killerbanshee.com/evolutionofgender
www.queerculturalcenter.org
FOR
IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Killer
Banshee Studios and The National Queer Arts Festival 2003 present:
EG:
(r)Evolution of Gender
a Visual Arts exhibition exploring gender identity
June
6-29, 2003
Opening reception: Friday, June 6 at 6:00pm
SomArts | Rear Gallery
934 Brannan @ 8th Street, San Francsico, CA
Featuring
work by:
| Tammy
Rae Carland |
Jordy
Jones |
| Eliot
K Daughtry |
Jenny
Michals |
| Kriss
De Jong |
Hien
Nguyen |
| Teri
Claude Dowling |
Tim
Taylor |
Curated
by: Eliot K Daughtry and Kriss De Jong of Killer Banshee Studios
Outside
of constraint visited on mainstream concepts of gender, the queer continuum
revels in paradox, defying definition. Presented as part of the National
Queer Arts Festival 2003,
EG: (r)Evolution of Gender tracks the influence of gender identity on
artists and their work. In this curated exhibition, eight artists will
show works with different perspectives on gender identity, roles and
their own relative gender positions. Subject matter ranges from androgynous
and deliberately non-gendered to the ephemera of gender transition.
Some artists will show work from multiple series, revealing changes
in their own experiences with gender. Others will display work that
seeks to expand the boundaries of gender perception and self-identity.
Represented disciplines include photography, painting, multimedia and
sculpture. Abstract narrative combines with found objects, reinterpretation,
and the politic of theory. Each artist explores gender from a different
point of view and cultural investment. Carland reinvents personal history
by playing both the role of her mother and father, and Dowling suggests
dualities created with prosthetics. Taylor and Jones use charged common
objects to rework the lines of cultural politics in their art. De Jong
and Michals create deliberate images of non-defined gender, while Nguyen
and Daughtry chronicle a shift away from androgyny to explore male sexuality.
Gender identity no longer begins with simple male/female constructs
and juxtapositions, and it does not end at the doorstep of transgender.
EG: (r)Evolution of Gender provides visual testimony from this dedicated
group of artists working within queer culture to expose the riches of
the gender experience.
Opening reception: Friday, June 6 at 6:00pm
Guided gallery tour & discussion: Saturday, June 14 at 3:00pm
SomArts
Gallery hours are Tuesday to Saturday, Noon-4pm.
The Gallery is accessible by wheelchair.
Download
a full copy of the press kit
Review
of EG:(r)Evolution Of Gender Show in SF Bay Guardian
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