Anita Steckel “Anita of New York”
The Suzanne Geiss Company
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The Suzanne Geiss Company presents a selection of Anita Steckel’s works from her Giant Woman (1970-1973) and New York Landscape (1970-1980) series.
Steckel’s large-scale New York Landscape collaged paintings fuse imagery inspired by the human, art historical, and urban bodies. Supine female figures, erect phalluses, dollar bills, the Mona Lisa, and other massive cultural symbols are inserted into the skyline. They sit on skyscrapers, make love, even battle in a humorous take on the city’s fraught, psychosexual sense of identity.
The Giant Woman series explores a more directly personal agenda. In these black and white photo collages, Steckel superimposes her own face onto vast female nudes that are embedded into recognizable New York sites and events. In one iconic scene, a Giant Woman hangs over the Empire State.
building, her abdomen pierced by the spire.
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Schedule
from November 02, 2013 to December 07, 2013
Opening Reception on 2013-11-02 from 18:00 to 20:00