Artists (left to right): Patricia Voulgaris, Maria De Los Angeles, Eddy Segal
OUR MOTHER THE MOUNTAIN
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Our Mother The Mountain presented by La MaMa Galleria was a 2022 group exhibition of paintings, sculptures, performance, and video exploring the re-enchantment of art through eco-sexuality, femininity, creativity, and generosity. Dreams, visions, creation myths, spirituality and community are the sources and subject matter for works throughout the show.
Our Mother The Mountain takes its title from Eddy Segal’s artwork of a sixteen-foot wedding dress, from her series of murals painted on larger-than-life gowns. Segal’s interest in transformation, ritual, and rebirth reflects the transformative symbolism of the bride’s dress, in one state of being when you step into the gown and metamorphosed into another when you step out of it.
Works in the exhibition included, Joan Crawford (Autumn Leaves) is a 4 x 4 inch watercolor by Justin Vivian Bond who considers the left eye to be both magical and meditative, “the eye that sees the world in a spiritual way.” The artist uses photographs or images from film to capture the nuances of the subject’s left eye. Swoon captured the crowning of a baby’s head entering the world in a monumental 85 x 105 in drawing on mylar. Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stephens curated a Video Program of eco-sexual short films for The One Minutes. Jessica Mitrani, explores feminism in her video, La Divanee, based on the true story of the Catalan countess of Güell, Palomba Matas Mujika de Pumeral y Santiago, who reclined on a chaise lounge at the age of eighteen with the intention of never standing up again.
Curator C. Finley states, “I have been observing people create scarcity and operate in isolation; this show aims to do the opposite; to engage with a generous outpouring of creativity, a soothing balm for these challenging times.”
Participating artists: Swoon, Justin Vivian Bond, Annie Sprinkle + Beth Stephens, Betsy Damon, Eddy Segal, Maria De Los Angeles, Daryl Daniels, Patricia Voulgaris, Nichole Washington, Leah Aron + Mark Shaw present Linda Mary Montano, Jessica Mitrani, Tura Oliveira, Shelley Marlow, Suzanne Wright, Michelle Rogers, Katherine Helen Fisher, Ash Edes, Clarity Haynes, Dusty Childers
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