The Intersectional Self Exhibition Opening
Friday, February 10, 2017
6 to 8pm
[Image Description: Two women and one man overlook a table with stacked prints in a gallery opening setting. Each print is pasted onto a thick piece of cardboard. The man to the left wears a brown blazer with a black sweatshirt underneath that has a zipper. He has brown, short hair and looks intently at the print the woman next to him is holding up. She has dark brown, shoulder-length hair and is wearing glasses and a furry baby blue sweatshirt covered in odd shapes that are made of black outlining with white in the middle. Next to her a woman with curly, light brown hair and glasses, a black purse, green jacket, and black shirt looks onto the table of prints as well. Behind them people mingle in mid-conversation.]
The Intersectional Self, an exhibition centered on gender and feminist politics in the age of trans-identity, featured the work of artists Janine Antoni, Andrea Bowers, Patty Chang, Abigail DeVille, Ana Mendieta, Catherine Opie, Adrian Piper, Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, Cindy Sherman, and Martha Wilson. The exhibition both explored how notions of femininity (and alternately, masculinity) have shifted in the context of newly defined gender identities and how family structures have been reimagined and reshaped through relatively recent advances in reproductive medicine and evolving gender roles. Ultimately, The Intersectional Self examined how feminism in its many forms has changed the world as we know it. The exhibition was on view from February 9 through May 19, 2017.