NYAB Event - Martha Rosler "Great Power"

Martha Rosler "Great Power"

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At Mitchell-Innes & Nash (534 W 26th St.)
Media: Photography, Sculpture, Installation

Martha Rosler has been an important figure in art since the 1960's, contributing groundbreaking works in media including video, photography, installation, performance, photo-text and critical writing. Her work addresses social life and the public sphere, often staking out feminist and anti-war positions. She has been included in numerous international exhibitions, most recently WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution at The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, PS1 in Queens, and other venues, UnMonumental at The New Museum in New York, Documenta 12 and Skulptur Projekte Münster, all in 2007; and Ambitions d'Art at Institut d'Art Contemporain in Villeurbanne, France, in 2008. Her solo exhibition Location, location, location is on view at Portikus in Frankfurt. Her comissioned 'reinvention' of Allan Kaprow's Words (1962) is on view in the exhibition Action/Abstraction at the Jewish Museum, New York.

Among Rosler's best-known works are her photomontages from the series Bringing the War Home: House Beautiful (1967-72), which set war scenes against images of domestic comfort and high design. In the wake of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, Rosler revisited the photomontage format, updating it to reflect the new spaces and technologies of war and its representations.