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Jenkins Johnson Gallery
October 3 - December 7, 2013Info
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http://www.jenkinsjohnsongallery.com/
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(415) 677-0770
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Jenkins Johnson Gallery is pleased to present Seven Sisters, a group exhibition opening Thursday, October 3 with a reception from 5:30 to 7:30pm, and running through December 7, 2013. Seven Sisters features ethnically diverse and world-renowned artists’ commentaries on the intersection of ethics, race, culture, and self-expression. Among the hottest young and established artists of today, Seven Sisters includes Carrie Mae Weems, Mickalene Thomas, Rina Banerjee, Patricia Piccinini, Camille Rose Garcia, Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle, Toyin Odutola, and Vanessa Prager. Coinciding with Seven Sisters is a traveling retrospective - Carrie Mae Weems: Three Decades of Photography and Video, which arrives at the Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University on October 16.
The mythologically significant star cluster Pleiades is the touchstone for Seven Sisters. While only six are discernible to the naked eye, these stars represent the seven daughters of Atlas and Pleione. Each daughter held a mythological role: one was the goddess of spring and farmers while another was the queen known to ward off storms. Like these daughters, goddesses, and queens immortalized in the sky, each artist in Seven Sisters brings a lasting cross-cultural approach and influence. Through painting, drawing, sculpture, and video, they remind us that the power of the female role is timeless. Photographs and video installations highlight femininity, African-American identity, and humanity’s past and present conditions. Sculpture compassionately portrays biotechnical affects on the living and mixed media artwork harnesses myth to demonstrate cultural connectivity. Pen drawings recreate the color of one’s skin and paintings and drawings utilize pop cultural refe rences to comment on society. In ancient times, the appearance of the constellation marked the start of a new season. Now, these artists mark a subliminal time when the voice of women sets the world ablaze.