[DAC] Fwd: Opening Tomorrow! PEACE KING MOTHER NATURE, Part 2.

[Donna Penn]

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> From: "second gallery" <secondgallery at gmail.com>
> Date: October 27, 2006 12:49:15 PM EDT
> To: secondgallery at secondgallery.org
> Subject: Opening Tomorrow! PEACE KING MOTHER NATURE, Part 2.
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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, 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.
>    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
> 516 East 2nd Street Unit 20
> South Boston, MA 02127
> 617 413 9395
> secondgallery at gmail.com
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> www.secondgallery.org
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