Topic: Women, Sex, and Art
Women, Sex, and Art: An Exposition
Featuring 5 Female Artists: Amanda Dickson, Kate Johnson, Danielle Kling, Cynthia Martinez, and Meghan Regnier
Firehouse Gallery
February 13, 2006 – February 24, 2006
This show in particular was a huge surprise. It was a varied collection of Wichita State students work. A show curated by Amanda Dickson, it was five different takes on sex and art. Each of the artists were selected from varied genres, photography, installation, painting, fabrics, and mixed mediums.
Amanda Dickson, a senior, again executed some of her best work. Her attention to detail, and color accuracy, proved a success in her mouth collection. Her she represented the mouth in several stages of movement. Each graduated to the next, in what seemed a pleasurable experience, from pursed to a light lick to the lips.
My other favorite in this show was Kate Johnson. She is a recent graduate from Wichita State. Her selected works were abstracted photographs. In her black and whites, she zoomed in close to her subject, which was the juncture of her lower limbs, in various stages of movement. The seemed almost microscopic in print, which involved me more on an analysis, or objectifying level. However, upon discovering exactly what it was she was photographing, and the perspective at which the photos were taken, it became a self analysis, and ownership occurred.
Overall, I thought the show was a huge success. The Firehouse Gallery is usually a bit out of the way to get to, but what a pleasant and busy surprise. The ladies did an excellent job in hanging their work, professionally, and chose work that best represented each of their strengths.