Who's That Girl?
MAIN GALLERY
21 OCTOBER - 20 NOVEMBER, 1999


WITH:

Janine Antoni
Meghan Boody
Claude Cahun
Nikki S. Lee
Mariko Mori
Yasumasa Morimura
Cindy Sherman
Laurie Simmons


Claude Cahun
Self Portrait, 1928
11 x 8.5 inches






Laurie Simmons
Black Bathroom, April 16, 1997
1997
Cibachrome
30 x 40 inches






Meghan Boody
#1: Psyche Enters
1999
Fujiflex print
56.5 x 41.5 inches framed






Sandra Gering Gallery is pleased to present Who's That Girl?, an exhibition featuring the photography of Janine Antoni, Meghan Boody, Claude Cahun, Nikki S. Lee, Mariko Mori, Yasumasa Morimura, Cindy Sherman, and Laurie Simmons. The works span from the prescient 1920s self-portraits by Claude Cahun that examine her own radical lifestyle, to the recent photographs of Nikki S. Lee as she experiences the lifestyles of sub-cultures other than her own.

This show will be a travelling exhibition with two locations: Sandra Gering Gallery, New York in October/November 1999; and a public venue in Pisa, Italy in March 2000, organized by Fondazione Teseco per l'Arte. A catalogue with an essay by Laura Cottingham will be published.



From the catalogue essay:

The image of woman is an image, an illusion created by history and sustained by culture. The eight artists featured in this exhibition share a concern with investigating the art historical and social parameters that have shaped and continue to shape our understanding of who and what a woman is. Excepting Janine Antoni, whose usual practice is sculptural, the others Meghan Boody, Claude Cahun, Nikki S. Lee, Mariko Mori, Yasumasa Morimura, Cindy Sherman, and Laurie Simmons work almost exclusively with photography, a medium so obviously suited to suggest the illusionary basis of our sense of reality. The lived experience that informs these investigations is an understanding of what it means to be and/or appear female, an understanding that each artist incorporates into the work through various meditations of subjectivity, representation and history.