Ghada Amer “Déesse Terre”
The Jane Hartsook Gallery
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“Ghada set out to close the distance across her mediums in her quest to express a vision and develop a language that is uniquely her own, uniquely female. Ghada’s connection with material and her desire to become physically invested in process through a medium linked to the politics of domesticity and femininity, achieve ultimate culmination in clay. Ghada’s artistic vocabulary relates to painting, however, her crusade to establish an authentic female voice has achieved great strides through her foray into ceramics. Unlike embroidery, her ceramics sever all material connection with painting’s patriarchal tradition, liberating her from the hierarchical struggle she experiences while engaged in that milieu. The embroidered canvas, synonymous with woman’s work, remains a dialogue with painting. Ceramics affords Ghada the means to disassociate her language from the tradition of masculine authority.”
—Adam Welch, Director, Greenwich House Pottery
Ghada Amer is an American artist, born in Egypt, living and working in New York City. Amer received her MFA in the arts at Villa Arson in Nice, France. She has been featured in many major exhibitions worldwide with solo exhibitions at the Brooklyn Museum of Art; Musee d’Art Contemporain de Montreal; and the Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Roma, Rome among others. She was included in major group exhibitions at Gwangju Museum of Art, South Korea; and the Museum of Modern Art New York, and PS1. Amer has also exhibited in the Venice Biennale, the Sydney Biennale and the Whitney Biennale. Amer’s works are part of major public collections such as Centre Pompidou, Paris; Art Institute of Chicago; Detroit Institute of Art; Mathaf, Doha; Samsung Museum, South Korea; and Guggenheim Abu Dhabi. Read More.
Ghada Amer is represented by Cheim & Read in America, Kukje in South Korea and Goodman Gallery in South Africa.
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from April 06, 2017 to May 07, 2017