Cindy Workman "The Women"

Lennon, Weinberg, Inc.

poster for Cindy Workman "The Women"

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This is the first retrospective exhibition to survey what has emerged as the central theme of Cindy Workman’s art: women. She combines pictures of women with contrasting imagery to construct an inquiry about sexuality, body image and social identity. Workman writes: These composite images invite the viewer to perceive many roles at once. While addressing the complexity of today’s female self they invite the observer to process and examine this new model, continuing art’s long tradition of shifting universal perceptions and prevailing standards.

Working in New York in the early 1990s during an era when the bravado of neo-expressionist painting was giving way to social critique and introspection, Workman began to focus on images of women, derived initially from art historical sources, comic books and from her own family photographs. She made direct, physical collages with printed images, colored plexiglass, wood and prominent hardware. In the mid 90s, she incorporated less mediated pictures of real women, posed and photographed as objects of desire - a type of soft-core amateur porn that she collected along with other source material at flea markets.

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Schedule

from June 18, 2009 to August 14, 2009

Opening Reception on 2009-06-18 from 18:00 to 20:00

Artist(s)

Cindy Workman

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