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Man as Object: Reversing the Gaze Opening at SOMArts Main Gallery Friday, November 4th: 6-9:00 p.m. San Francisco, CA
WOMEN ARTISTS LOOK AT MEN AND MASCULINITY
ART EXHIBITION RE-ENVISIONS GENDER, SOCIETY AND THE POLITICS OF EXPOSURE
PLEASE JOIN US…
for our ART OPENING!
Friday, November 4th 6-9:00 p.m.
SOMArts Cultural Center
Main Gallery
934 Brannan Street
San Francisco. CA
www.somarts.orgMan as Object: Reversing the Gaze is an exhibition that re-envisions gender, society and the politics of exposure. With a gallery filled with men stripped naked, this body of work exposes women’s cheeky, provocative and sometimes shocking commentaries on the opposite sex. The exhibition’s contemporary scope encompasses all the ways that women view Man-as-Object, reversing the traditional view of male artists objectifying women. Its diverse perspectives on masculinity come from straight, transsexual, transgender, lesbian and multi-cultural artists through a spectrum of media, from paintings to sculpture, installations to performance, video to social media. The show’s extensive collection of male adoration, male impersonation and male appendages may make the viewer squirm a little. But that is precisely the point. The more than 100 women artists in the exhibition unapologetically reveal how they really see men. Through this public display at SOMArts Cultural Center, the show’s organizers aim to equalize the gaze between the sexes.Featured Artists: Juana Alicia, Nancy Buchanan, The Guerrilla Girls on Tour!, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Jill O’Brian, ORLAN, Carolee Schneeman, Silvia Sleigh, Annie Sprinkle, Beth Stephens, May Wilson and Melissa P. Wolf. AND 105 Selected Artists!
Mel Ahlborn, Roberta Ahrens, Olga Alexander, Zina Al-Shukri, Juliane Backmann, Hazel Bartram-Birchenough, Joanne Beaule Ruggles, Jasmine Begeske, Tracy Brown, Della Calfee, Brie Castell, Christine Cianci, Katie Commodore, Nicole Craine, Tristan Crane, Tristan Crane, Arabella Decker, Rosemary Giusti Dillon, Liz Dodson, Betsyann Duval, Merrilyn Duzy, Lynn Friedman, Linda Friedman Schmidt, Michal Gavish, Judy Gelles, Ingeborg Gerdes, Christine Giancola, Lisolette Gilcrest, Pallavi Govindnathan, Chanel Matsunami Govreau, Corinne Greenberg, Gail Gurman, Karen Gutfreund, Tania Hammidi, Laura Hartford, Trudi Chamoff Hauptman, Marlene Hawthrone Thomas, Katty Ryan Hoover, Aisjah Hopkins, Annette Isham, Patricia Izzo, Lahib Jaddo, Tammy Kinsey & Jean Kusina, Judy Johnson-Williams, Christy Kelly-Bentgen, Ellen Kieffer, Karen Lance Klaber, Susan Kraft, Allison Leach, Evie Leder, Lee Lee, Sharon Leong, Lynn Elliott Letterman, Amelia Lewis, Lory Lockwood, Michelle Lopez, Jacalyn Lopez Garcia, So Yoon Lym, Cat Lynch, Sita Mae, Kristina Martino, Karen Mathews, Jeanette May, Kristine Mays, Shilo McCabe, Erika Meriaux, Carol Morris, Janice Nesser, Molly Marie Nuzzo, Brenda Oelbaum, Beth Olds, Colleen O’Donnell, Priscilla Otani, Heather Pilapil, Karen Purdy, Xian Mei Qiu, Nora Raggio, Lynda A. N. Reyes, Judith Roth, Clara Saprasa, Elinore Schnurr, Centa Schumacher, Judith Segall, Shizue Seigel, Sal Sidner, Bonnie J. Smith, Priscilla Smith, Madelyn Smoak, Colette Standish, Erika Swinson, Yuriko Takata, Patricia Terrell-O’Neal, Lynne Todaro, J Toffic, Cristina Velazquez, Christina Renfer Vogel, Susan von Gries, Theresa Walloga, Ruth Waters, Jennifer Weigel, Corinne Whitaker, Tamara White, Sheila Winner, Nanette Wylde, Emily Yost, Karen Zack EXHIBITION COMMITTEE: Tanya Augsburg, Juror, Karen Gutfreund, Director, Priscilla Otani, Curatorial Committee, Brenda Oelbaum, Curatorial Committee, Jessica Gee, Publicity. OTHER EVENTS: Friday, Nov 4 2011, 6:00 P.M. – 9:00 P.M. Opening Reception, Artwork Dedication, & Performance
6:30 P.M. Artwork Dedication of Sylvia Sleigh’s work,
Lawrence and Susan Delgado, to Mills College.
7:30 P.M. Performance artist Chanel Matsunami Govreau will performher new work Hapa Bruthas. This performance will explore Hapamale and Asian male sexuality, brotherhood, and the effects of interracial dating in Asian American communities from a mixed-Asian woman’s perspective.
Sunday, Nov 13, 2011, 12:00 P.M. – 3:00 P.M. Peepshow Drawing Circle & PerformanceReprise of Chanel Matsunami Govreau’s performance, Hapa Bruthas.Peepshow Drawing Circle: this event features live nude male model placed in the gallery’s “hole,” which will be converted into a man-cave. The male model will be drawn by the public and all drawings will be exhibited onsite for the event, then taken home by the artists. Wednesday, Nov 30 2011, 6:00 P.M. – 9:00 P.M. Closing Reception, Screening & Discussion Panel 6:15 & 6:30 P.M. Screening of Fuses, historic feminist film by Carolee Schneemann in SOMArts theater 7:00 P.M. Looking at Men: Then & Now, panel discussion with Annie Sprinkle, Carolee Schneemann and Tanya Augsburg.
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