Don’t Call Me Pretty

Marta Maria Perez-Bravo, Cuanto Encontró Para Vencer, 2000, silver gelatin print, 68” x 148”. © Pan American Art Projects.

Pan American Art Projects

April 24 - June 5, 2010

Pan American Art Projects is presenting a group exhibition of women artists, “Don’t Call Me Pretty: Women in Art,“ from April 24 - June 5. The artists feature work in varying media, from painting, photography and sculpture to mixed media and video installations.

“Don’t Call Me Pretty ” showcases the evolution of the female voice in the development of artistic agendas. The emphasis of the exhibit is not on feminism, but rather on the female approach to such themes as representation of the body, maternity, separation, liberation, and the environment.

The selection includes established artists like Louise Nevelson, Marta Maria Perez-Bravo and Rosângela Rennó, as well as mid-career artists Vibeke Tandberg and Tracey Snelling, and young emerging artists like Andrea Cote, who experiments with her body as both the subject of and tool with which she creates her work, and Spanish artist Cristina Lucas who also uses the body as a means of communication. In her video, a nude figure set amidst the cosmos uses her sex to hold a paintbrush and write the words “Big Bang.” Further in the show is New York-based artist Jane Martin, whose work consists of video stills of her nude figure immersed in nature.

“Don’t Call Me Pretty: Women in Art” also features works by: Belkys Ayon, Tania Bruguera, Ryder Cooley, Nora Correas, Maysey Craddock, Antonia Eiriz, Ana Fabry, Aimee Garcia, Elsa Mora, Sandra Ramos, Graciela Sacco, Carolina Sardi, and Lucia Warck-Meister.

Concurrently with the opening of the exhibition, Pan American Art Projects is hosting a symposium discussing the evolution of female artistic dialogue in the late twentieth and into the early twenty-first century.

Additionally, in the gallery’s project room, Costa Rican artist Gigi Lesso’s work re-conceptualizes common objects and historically significant phrases to comment on issues of politics, ecology and personal experience.

“Don’t Call Me Pretty: Women in Art” (April 24 - June 5, 2010)

Pan American Art Projects. 2450 NW 2^nd Ave., Miami, FL  33127

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