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2024 / Textures of Feminist Perseverance
Presented in two venues at the James Gallery CUNY Graduate Center and Cuchifritos Gallery + Project Space
On View at the James Gallery: February 15 - June 7, 2024
On View at Cuchifritos Gallery + Project Space: March 1 - April 27, 2024
Presented in two venues, Textures of Feminist Perseverance asks how women's daily experiences and contributions are recorded in physical, virtual, and social public spheres. Centering the work of 17 female-identifying artists, this project supports artists who are imagining ways for women to take up the space they are already producing. What might a city honoring women's lived experiences look like? How can the city be a living archive of women's accomplishments in a visual vocabulary that may not already be recognized in the dominant discourse? This work is often achieved through a preoccupation with hands-on and labor-intensive making practices that foreground physical and embodied attentiveness to materials, social gathering, and awareness of time.
Textures of Feminist Perseverance is conceived and curated by artist Dina Weiss and curator Katherine Carl, Ph.D. (James Gallery Institute for Art, Inquiry & Collaborative Practice, CUNY Graduate Center) and presented in partnership with Jodi Waynberg, Executive Director of Artists Alliance Inc and Director of Cuchifritos Gallery + Project Space.
Press: The exhibition is featured in Hyperallergic Spring 2024 Art Guide
2021-2023 / James Gallery Artist in Residence, upcoming project, and exhibition, Feminist Textures of Perseverance.
How many waves will it take? Women continue to persevere around the world in situations of extreme and growing inequality. Infrastructures of society keep women’s contributions and labor invisible. In particular, although cities are designed for physical inhabitation and mark the historical contributions of its people, the public sphere has not been made with women’s safety and contributions in mind. Furthermore, virtual public spaces are also assaulting young women’s health and safety.
This series supports artists to make projects that imagine ways for women to visibly take up the space they are already producing. What might a city honoring women’s lived experiences look like? How can the city be a visual and spatial record, a living archive of women’s accomplishments in a vocabulary that has not been recognized in the dominant discourse? The project will support investigations of how women have grappled with problems through everyday practices of mutuality, unheroic gestures, and intergenerational mentoring.
These projects will take myriad forms ranging from public window projects, posters, public gatherings, samizdat/zines, talking circles, mentoring exchanges, inspiration swap meets, crafting, conversations/interviews with public figures, speculative designs, new street names, historical research, making archives public, oral histories/ethnographies, and social media interventions.
This multi-year project is an artistic-curatorial partnership of Dina Weiss (James Gallery artist in residence); Katherine Carl, James Gallery; and Jodi Wayneberg, AAI/Cuchifritos.
— Katherine Carl, Deputy Director of The Center for Humanities and James Gallery Curator at The Graduate Center, CUNY
2022 / Equity Gallery, Personal Geographies group exhibition, curated by Matt Rota and Alayio Bradshaw, Personal Geographies showcases artists working in the intractable media of watercolor to explore memories through objects, landscapes, and atmospheres that carry the weight and implication of personal history. On view from October 6 - 30, 2022.
November 2013 / BLDG Scarf featured at a pop up shop at GlasMagasinet through January 15, 2014 in Oslo, Norway
May 2013 / Ground Floor, a participatory art project in collaboration with Artists Alliance Inc that explored the potential uses for the ground floor of the Seward Park Urban Renewal Area (SPURA) as untapped capital in the Lower East Side. Took place during the New Museum's IDEAS CITY Festival on May 4, 2013, Ground Floor will provide visitors with a forum for brainstorming, discussion, mapping, and an art project recreating the naturally growing morning glory flowers that cover the fencing surrounding the renewal site.
September 2012 through February 2013 / works featured at Product Porch by The Vitrine at the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego and the San Diego Art Fair.
April 2011 / works at Pop Under by The Vitrine held at Fitzroy Gallery in New York City.
February 2011 / Ascenseur project commissioned by The James Gallery at The Graduate Center CUNY. A textile based collaboration with fashion designer, Laaleh Mizani.