GROUP SHOW – Cartography of the Feminine
We have the pleasure to exhibit Cartography of the Feminine by Group Show.
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“Cartography of the Feminine”
The idea and choices for this show follow the premise and wider context in many areas of the cycle “Portuguese women in US”, by Arte Institute, presenting artwork by Portuguese female artists residing and working in New York.
“Cartography” is a metaphor and the inspiration for this exhibition. The intention is to create multiple dialogues among the artworks bringing up issues of feminine identity, claiming consistency between form and content.
Their vocabulary expands from digital photography, as an end in itself or as a conceptual process, to painting.
Margarida Correia, “Dona Geraldina e Maria” and “Dona Ana”, from the series “Ofício São Roque”, shows portraits of women while creating contrast and ambiguity with their personal backgrounds, often between secularism and sacredness, or tradition versus domesticity.
Joana Ricou, “Other self-portrait” and “Non-self-portrait”, from the series “Other selves”, a process starts with sampling microorganisms from the skin of her face, giving another – “Other self” conceptualized dimension together with organic, pictoric abstractions.
Isabel Pavão presents paintings “Love Full” and “Fear Less”, from the series “Psyche Boundaries”, reflecting abstract self-portraits while exploring an emotional/self referential dimension in dialectic with a painterly background.
Maria Clara Pereira, “Anagram #1” and “Anagram #9”, from the series “Anagram”, explores images of her body with the inclusion of foreign objects, creating another sense of physicality coupled with an imaginary dimension, through virtual metamorphosis.
Rita Barros, in “Untitled #4” and “Chelsea Housewife”, from the series “Displacement2”, portrays images of her body in a setting where movement and grace contrasts with her autobiographical background. This particular work reverts to the notions of self, placing her body at the center of her approach, posing it.
Although the particular aesthetic solutions vary from one artist to another, they all share the same logic where histories of subjectivity meet the narratives of a culture(s) and cultural hybridity. As a result, we witness new forms, functioning at a number of levels of self portraying and imagining, embracing the existential dilemma of being and appearing, confronting the concept of beauty in itself.
Isabel Pavão, New York, October 2013
Biography
Rita Barros
Originally from Lisbon, Portugal, photographer Rita Barros teaches at NYU (New York University). She has a MA in Art in Media: Studio Art from New York University/ International Center of Photography and is the author of the book “Fifteen Years: Chelsea Hotel” Camara Municipal de Lisboa, 1999.
Originally from Lisbon, Portugal, photographer Rita Barros teaches at NYU (New York University). She has a MA in Art in Media: Studio Art from New York University/ International Center of Photography and is the author of the book “Fifteen Years: Chelsea Hotel” Camara Municipal de Lisboa, 1999.
Her work has been shown in numerous group and solo exhibitions at :
PS 1 Contemporary Arts Center, Briggs & Robinson Gallery, Exit Art, (all in NYC); Center for Photography at Woodstock, (NY), Wilfredo Lam Contemporary Art Museum (Havana, Cuba); Encontros De Coimbra, Museu da Água, Cadeia da Relação/Centro Português de Fotografia, Museu de Serralves, Bieanl de Cascais (all in Portugal), São Paulo Contemporary Art Museum (Sao Paolo, Brazil), Photo España 07 (Emerging Talents) at the Museo de Arte Contemporanea (Madrid, Spain), Biennale de Soncino, Flash Art Fair (Milan, Italy), at Paris Photo 2009 and 2010, with Galeria Pente 10, and at Fundação Gulbenkian, (Paris).
Her portraits and cityscapes have been published in many European and American magazines, including New York Times, New York Magazine, Newsweek, Nouvel Observateur, Elle, Vogue, Zoom, Expresso, GEO, El Mundo, La Vanguardia, Publico, Marie Claire, Le Monde.
She was awarded with a grant from the New York Foundation for the Arts in 2002 and is represented in various Portuguese and international art collections.
Untitled #4, 2012
Paper size 11x 8 1/2”(27,94×21,59cm)
Archival Pigment Print
From the series “Displacement2”
Chelsea Housewife, 2012
Paper size 11x 8 1/2”(27,94×21,59cm)
Archival Pigment Print
From the series “Displacement2”
Margarida Correia
Margarida Correia
Margarida Correia was born in Lisbon and currently lives in New York.
She graduated from the School of Visual Arts in New York with an MFA in Photography in 2004. Her recent solo shows include New World Parkville at EDP Foundation (Lisbon) and São João da Madeira Art Center (SJM), Oficio at Museum of São Roque (Lisbon), Things at A.I.R. Gallery (New York) and Gallery 111 (Lisbon/ Porto) and Saudade at Real Art Ways (Harford), Urban Institute for Contemporary Art (Grand Rapids) and Gallery Monumental (Lisbon, 2006).
She has also exhibited at White Columns (NY), Exit Art (NY), Dorsky Gallery (NY), Print Center (Philadelphia), Center of Contemporary Art (Seattle), Griffin Museum of Photography (Winchester). Margarida was a recipient of grants from the Puffin Foundation, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, the Luso American Foundation and the Portuguese Center for Photography.
Dona Geraldina e Maria, 2010
C-Print
20 x 24 inches (51 x 61 cm)
2/8 + 2 AP
From the series “Ofício São Roque”
Dona Ana, 2010
C-Print
20 x 24 inches (51 x 61 cm)
2/8 + 2 AP
From the series “Ofício São Roque”
Isabel Pavão
Isabel Pavão
Isabel Pavão, artist, had lived and worked in New York since 1990.
She exhibits her work in New York City, and in many museums and galleries all over the world. Pavão participates often as an invited artist as well as a guest professor in Universities, Art Schools, and Museums. She presents on Contemporary Art, on art projects dealing with her own work, pedagogical issues and Aesthetics.
She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Porto Academy of Fine Arts, 1982, a Master of Arts degree from the University of Paris VIII, 1988 and a Doctor of Arts degree, PhD, from New York University, 1994.
She is the Creative Director of a TV program “Healing Waters and Baths of Europe” and belongs to the Board of Directors of Cinema Arts Center, Huntington, N.Y., as part of the Development and Fundraising Committee. Pavão is a Professor of Art History, Borough of Manhattan Community College. She is also member of the advisory board of Arte Institute.
Fear Less, 2011
Acrylic on Canvas
18 x 14 inches (45,7 x 35,6 cm)
From the series “Psyche Boundaries”
Love Full, 2011
Acrylic on Canvas
18 x 14 inches (45,7 x 35,6 cm)
From the series “Psyche Boundaries”
Maria Clara Pereira
Maria Clara Pereira
Maria Clara Pereira was born in Madeira Island – Portugal.
She holds a five-year degree in Communication Design/Graphic Arts from the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Oporto (FBAUP).
After her graduation, and several years working as graphic designer, she moved to New York where she graduated from the International Center of Photography (ICP) with a One-Year Certificate in General Studies. She continued acquiring knowledge by interning with North American photographer Mary Ellen Mark.
Her work explores two different sides, one more conceptual and intimate, and the other more documental, for which she looks inside the world, streets, cultures and people.
Her work has been exhibited in New York City, where she currently lives and works.
Anagram #1, 2010
Archival Pigment Print
16 x 24 inches (40,5 x 61 cm)
From the series “Anagram”
Anagram #9, 2010
Archival Pigment Print
16 x 24 inches (40,5 x 61 cm)
From the series “Anagram”
Joana Ricou
Joana Ricou works as an artist and creative director in artistic, scientific and educational projects with universities and museums including Harvard University, the Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh, the National Aviary and the Andy Warhol Museum. Ricou has received awards and residencies including the Spark Award from The Sprout Fund and a Fellowship at the STUDIO for Creative Inquiry at Carnegie Mellon University.
Joana Ricou works as an artist and creative director in artistic, scientific and educational projects with universities and museums including Harvard University, the Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh, the National Aviary and the Andy Warhol Museum. Ricou has received awards and residencies including the Spark Award from The Sprout Fund and a Fellowship at the STUDIO for Creative Inquiry at Carnegie Mellon University.
She studied art and biology at Carnegie Mellon University (BSA’04) and multimedia arts at Duquesne University (MS’09) and lives in Brooklyn, New York.
Joana Ricou uses art and science to explore current discoveries and events. She is inspired by themes of multiplicity and dis/continuity, focusing on how science defines and re-defines distinctions and boundaries in the human body.
Other self-portrait (Outro Auto-retrato)
Digital c-print
16 x 16 inches (40,5 x 40,5 cm)
From the series “Other selves”
Non-self-portrait (Não-auto-retrato)
Digital c-print
16 x 16 inches (40,5 x 40,5 cm)
From the series “Other selves”