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Mills College Art Museum

September 12 - December 10, 2012

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5000 MacArthur Blvd Oakland, CA 94613
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Dance Rehearsal
Join the Mills College Art Museum and guest curator Melissa E. Feldman in celebrating the opening of internationally acclaimed artist Karen Kilimnik’s first one-person museum exhibition on the West Coast. Refreshments provided. Dance Rehearsal is dedicated to Karen Kilimnik’s longstanding engagement with historical theatre, in particular, the Classical and Romantic story ballets of the 17th and early 19th-centuries. The exhibition features works from 1988 to the present, encompassing all the notoriously diverse styles and mediums in which Kilimnik has worked—from figurative drawing and painting to mixed media mise-en-scène installations, collage, photography, and video, as well as more recent forays into set and costume design and choreography. Emerging in the late-1980s, American artist Karen Kilimnik is a key figure in contemporary art whose work in media ranging from traditional painting to video and live performance has reinvigorated and expanded the lexicon of narrative figuration. She first became known for vignette-littered drawings and sprawling theatrical installation works that reimagine historical figures and times and parallels in contemporary pop culture.