Vera Iliatova "Terrain Vague"
Monya Rowe Gallery
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Judy Blume and Balthus share the assumption that transitioning from the artlessness of childhood to the performance of adulthood necessitates its own rituals—a curious coterie of girlishness susceptible to violation, but with peculiar potency and authority. Vera Iliatova pictures these rituals free from the obligation of Blume’s guidance or Balthus’s desire. Without a prescript to be good girls or bad, these young women are allowed to wonder, gathering together to celebrate or fight or whisper, forming knots of intrepid explorers and bored idlers that leap and stomp and stall.
[Image: Vera Iliatova, First Days, 2010, Oil on canvas, 50 by 40 in.]
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Schedule
from January 13, 2011 to February 19, 2011
Opening Reception on 2011-01-13 from 18:00 to 20:00