Martha Wilson "Phptp/Text Works 1971-1974"
Mitchell Algus Gallery
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Martha Wilson's pioneering photo/text and performance work is little-known, original and important. Done between 1971 and 1974 at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (NSCAD) where Wilson was teaching English, the work takes then-emerging conventions of language based conceptual art into new territory, examining the construction and perception of identity and gender. Wilson's emphasis on subjectivity and transformation in the presentation and recognition of self placed her art at a productive remove from mainstream conceptualism where the ruse of analytical objectivity was the prevailing mode. Her work's sly humor was also at odds with contemporary art world taste, particularly coming as it did from a woman. The current show is Martha Wilson's first one person gallery exhibition.
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from March 23, 2008 to April 22, 2008