New print featured in Girls’ Club catalog Self-Proliferation
In conjunction with the exhibition Self-Proliferation, Girls’ Club presents an unconventional catalog with inserts commissioned from local artists and printers.
Self-Proliferation the Exhibition
Curated by Micaela Giovannotti, Self-Proliferation is a group exhibition in response to the renewed interest in artist prints, editions, books and other multiples. The exhibition of works by more than thirty artists from the collection of Francie Bishop Good and David Horvitz expresses the natural female propensity for replication and fecundity. The majority of works are created as multiples – artist books, prints, photographs, videos. They manifest the fungible nature of contemporary art production and collection today, and exhibit an easy familiarity with technology. The supremacy of the original masterwork is sidestepped in favor of a more accessible and, at the same time, more radical awareness of the artwork within the marketplace.
An international, cross-generational selection of artists reflect upon the nuances of the female “self” as constructed or inspired by cinema and pop culture, printed media and fashion, feminist notions, racial politics, cultural traditions and personal concerns. Landscape exists as a self-referent, a zone for projections of feminine identity. The multi-tasking and innate reproductive nature of female existence provides the creative engine for the works on view. Duality, doubling, mirroring, splintering the one into the many – these themes define the status of female lives today.
Self-Proliferation the Catalog
Designed by Hello Gusto!
Published 2016.
Foreword by creative director Michelle Weinberg, original essay by guest curator Micaela Giovannotti, poems inspired by the exhibition from writer-in-residence Jan Becker. Cover inserts include original exhibition flyer, sticker sheet of exhibition graphics, and index/checklist of artworks. Artist/printer inserts from Ingrid Schindall of IS Projects, Juana Meneses and Leila A. Leder Kremer of Portable Editions, Augusto Mendoza and Edwin Beauchamp of Books Are Nice and Sarah Michelle Rupert.
ISBN 978-0-9886536-3-4
Edition of 200
