[DAC] Fwd: Second Gallery Presents: PEACE KING MOTHER NATURE, Part 2. Opening Saturday October 28th

[Donna Penn]

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> From: "second gallery" <secondgallery at gmail.com>
> Date: October 22, 2006 6:21:13 PM EDT
> To: secondgallery at secondgallery.org
> Subject: Second Gallery Presents: PEACE KING MOTHER NATURE, Part 2.  
> Opening Saturday October 28th
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> We at Second Gallery sincerely hope to see you at:
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> PEACE KING MOTHER NATURE, Part 2
> October 28 – November 26, 2006
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> Opening Reception: Saturday October 28th, 8- 10 pm.
> Opening reception will feature temporary sculptures by Jeremiah  
> Teipen.
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>     Second Gallery is pleased to present the second installment of  
> PEACE KING MOTHER NATURE, an exhibition in two parts that will span  
> the fall. PEACE KING MOTHER NATURE explores the conceptual terrain  
> of the dichotomy of "nature" and "culture," in an attempt to  
> rethink the authority of this distinction in regards to gender,  
> race, technology, and popular culture. Scott Lenhardt, Andrea  
> Loefke, Ezra Rubin, Anna Stein, and Jeremiah Teipen, the five  
> artists whose work comprises the second installment of PEACE KING  
> MOTHER NATURE, all create works that challenge the saliency of the  
> conceptual opposition between "nature" and "culture" and present  
> opportunities to rethink these allegedly innate categories. This  
> exhibition begins with the premise that the nature/culture  
> dichotomy is at the center of a web of other dichotomies, such as  
> the conceptual opposition between femininity and masculinity, the  
> body and the mind/soul, wilderness and rationality, fluidity and  
> autonomy, all of which must be reexamined if we are to move forward  
> into new ways of thinking, being, and understanding subjectivity  
> and culture.
>     In the lower room, Anna Stein's If The Vatican Was a Tulip is a  
> towering interpretation of an aerial architectural view of The  
> Vatican, playfully altered to increase its likeness to a tulip.  By  
> mixing these two iconographic forms, Stein illuminates the extent  
> to which forms can be revised and remade, transcending their  
> identities as "cultural" or "natural". Rip Van Winkle, by Scott  
> Lenhardt, is a miniature modeling clay rendition of the classic  
> story character on a bed of intricately molded grass—a sly  
> investigation of folklore, fantasy, and the march of technology.  
> One early morning when the campfire was still smouldering…, by  
> Andrea Loefke includes a large upholsteryesque floral teepee that  
> is molded on four sides with what appear to be bustles or butts, in  
> a poignant exploration of the linkages between femininity, bodies,  
> nature, clothing, camping, and the home. In the upper room,  
> Jeremiah Teipen's interactive machine/organisms, Transparent and  
> Electrocute Euthanasia III, combine LEDs, video cameras and  
> monitors, glass orbs, fake hair, and baby Nikes into sculptures  
> that speak to the hybridization of nature and technology and the  
> confusing excess of gadgets in a strangely endearing manner. At the  
> opening, Teipen's Smoking Grass and Smoking Snow—fog-producing faux  
> grass and faux snow mountains—will be on the street outside of the  
> gallery. Ezra Rubin's videos Amphitheater, MJB=Storm, and Killa  
> Cam's Wolfpack, are an examination of fantasy, celebrity, hip hop,  
> natural forces, nostalgia, and childhoods spent in the forest.  
> Beams of white light shoot from Mary J. Blige's eyes over a field  
> of lightning, purple wolves emerge surrounding Cam'ron, and a  
> possessed vortex of magic and smoke appears and disappears on a  
> mysterious forest stage. Rubin's videos make powerful connections  
> between popular culture and societal norms, thus revealing the way  
> in which beliefs about nature and culture serve to define  
> individuals, groups, and the collective memory.
> All together, the works in PEACE KING MOTHER NATURE play with and  
> explore the definition of, relation between, and the history of  
> these two terms - "nature" and "culture" - from a variety of  
> points: gender, race, the miniature, popular culture, technology,  
> video games, architecture, and craft. For more information,  
> including more writing on this show, links and information about  
> all the artists, and a look at the artists in part one of PEACE  
> KING MOTHER NATURE, please visit www.secondgallery.org
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> PEACE KING MOTHER NATURE Part 2 will be on view from October 28 –  
> November 26, 2006, with an Opening Reception on Saturday October  
> 28th, 8- 10 pm. Opening reception will feature temporary sculptures  
> by Jeremiah Teipen. Gallery hours are Wednesday through Saturday,  
> 12 to 6pm.
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> Second Gallery  The Distillery 516 East 2nd Street South Boston, MA  
> 02127
> W: www.secondgallery.org E: secondgallery at gmail.com T: 617 413 9395
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> Rebecca Gordon
> Second Gallery
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> South Boston, MA 02127
> 617 413 9395
> secondgallery at gmail.com
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