Group Show: Line to the Girls' Room
Kezia Harrell, Zoe Hawk, Kelly Kozma, Suzanne Long, Grace Lynn, Anoushka Mirchandani, Eileen Noonan, Clare Rosean, Christine Taylor & Alice Wiese
Dates: March 8 - March 30, 2019
Opening Reception: Friday, March 8 | 6-8 pm
Glass Rice is proud to present our second annual all-female group show, Line to the Girls’ Room. This exhibition features the works of ten emerging and mid-career artists, three returning and seven new to our program, with linear influences in each of their works.
Line to the Girls’ Room, as a title, is a humorous reference to the time spent waiting women often have to endure to simply use the loo. Society has taught us that lines to women’s restrooms are often so long because women choose to ‘apply makeup’ or ‘gossip with their friends’, when the reality is, women have less room to relieve themselves, menstruate, and breastfeed, three things that naturally require more time and space. Despite the humor, the artists in Line to the Girls’ Room play an important role in shifting these reductive perspectives about women by touching on crucial subjects that extend beyond vain or chatty definitions.
From Kezia Harrell’s drawing of her explorations of Dr. Joy Degruy-Leary’s theory of Post-traumatic Slave Syndrome through investigating Johnny Gruelle’s commodification of Blackness as a spectacle, to Eileen Noonan’s meditative process in creating her abstract paintings as a means of healing her emotional wounds, the artists in this exhibition touch on a plethora of definitions on how to express what their female identity means or feels like. Line to the Girls’ Room is a celebration of women and the idiosyncratic facets that make up the experiential fabric of women today.
Kezia Harrell, Zoe Hawk, Kelly Kozma, Suzanne Long, Grace Lynn, Anoushka Mirchandani, Eileen Noonan, Clare Rosean, Christine Taylor & Alice Wiese
Dates: March 8 - March 30, 2019
Opening Reception: Friday, March 8 | 6-8 pm
Glass Rice is proud to present our second annual all-female group show, Line to the Girls’ Room. This exhibition features the works of ten emerging and mid-career artists, three returning and seven new to our program, with linear influences in each of their works.
Line to the Girls’ Room, as a title, is a humorous reference to the time spent waiting women often have to endure to simply use the loo. Society has taught us that lines to women’s restrooms are often so long because women choose to ‘apply makeup’ or ‘gossip with their friends’, when the reality is, women have less room to relieve themselves, menstruate, and breastfeed, three things that naturally require more time and space. Despite the humor, the artists in Line to the Girls’ Room play an important role in shifting these reductive perspectives about women by touching on crucial subjects that extend beyond vain or chatty definitions.
From Kezia Harrell’s drawing of her explorations of Dr. Joy Degruy-Leary’s theory of Post-traumatic Slave Syndrome through investigating Johnny Gruelle’s commodification of Blackness as a spectacle, to Eileen Noonan’s meditative process in creating her abstract paintings as a means of healing her emotional wounds, the artists in this exhibition touch on a plethora of definitions on how to express what their female identity means or feels like. Line to the Girls’ Room is a celebration of women and the idiosyncratic facets that make up the experiential fabric of women today.