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Drawing Back: Cartoon Critiques of America
Newspaper cartoons are daily signatures (and lightning rods) of visual protest against political injustice. At a time when American foreign and domestic policies have been drawing scathing criticism from around the world, editorial cartoonists have been leading the charge, using graphic satire to expose, ridicule and attack the world’s most powerful nation and its leaders. The […]
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OTHER THAN ART
Other than Art features the work of collaborators Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla, Ivan Navarro, and Elissa Levy. Artworks by the renowned Puerto Rican team of Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla include a series of photographs and a video installation documenting their protest performances on the island of Vieques, for sixty years a site used […]
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THE INNOCENTS: HEADSHOTS
This compelling exhibition presents photographic portraits of 45 wrongfully convicted individuals who were exonerated through DNA evidence. While police “mugshots” and photo arrays have routinely been used to condemn the guilty, artist Taryn Simon reframes this photographic convention and turns the camera around to document these innocent victims of mistaken identity and perverted justice, using the […]
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BODY LANGUAGES
If the body is itself a complex structure, the meanings we project onto it are doubly complex. Our contemporary reading of the body, particularly the challenging issues of gender difference and identity, offer a fascinating opportunity for artists to explore such questions and share their insights with the public. Through the powerful photographic works of […]
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DEE DEE DOES UTOPIA
Deborah Lawrence, Beachtopia, Acrylic, collage, and varnish on rag paper, 37×31 inches, 2005. Deborah Lawrence’s beguiling collage-paintings mix magic and politics, whimsy and anger, a sense of indignation as well as the absurd. In her hands, these intricate dreamscapes, recycled from discarded piles of pop imagery and the art canon, transform into powerful critiques of […]
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INDIA UNBOUND!
Provisions Fall 2005 program, India Unbound!, focuses on India and its colonial and post-colonial histories. An exhibition and related special programs examine and challenge recurring themes and stereotypes, opening new ways of envisioning the power of art and social change in 21st century India. India Unbound! features Rajkamal Kahlon’s Unbound- a series of gouache paintings that confront […]
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CHANGE METHODS: HIP-HOP, SOCIAL CHANGE & GLOBAL INFLUENCES
The Change Methods exhibition was an interactive experience for visitors to Provisions Library. Featuring the work of 10 renowned artists and filmmakers, this exploratory exhibit presented both a celebratory and critical survey of the many facets and permutations of hip-hop culture. Artists exhibited include John Ahearn, Rigoberto Torres, Sanford Biggers, Iona Rozeal Brown, Brett Cook, […]
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ON THE SUBJECT OF WAR
‘On The Subject of War features work by Bobby Neel Adams, Mike Asente, The Barnstormers, Nina Berman, Melissa Dubbin and Aaron S. Davidson, Ron Haviv, Susan Meiselas, Eve Sussman, Patricia Thornley, Sarah Trigg, and photographs by anonymous WWII photographers from the Edward C. Graves collection. The exhibition was on display March 4, 2005 – May […]
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SHILPA GUPTA
Shilpa Gupta creates artwork using interactive websites, video, gallery environments and public performances and has exhibited all over the world. Her subversive populism bites into and chews up the global economy, consumerism, religion, and complex dynamics of the Internet. Her works are mock-serious but authoritative provocations seizing on environmental exploitation, cheap labor, international debt, mass […]
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COMFORT WOMEN
Hung Liu grew up in China and came of age during the Chinese Cultural Revolution. She spent four years in the countryside as a laborer, studied painting at the Central Academy of Art and in 1984, received permission to attend the University of California-San Diego where she earned an M.F.A. Using anonymous historical photographs as […]