Some Fine Women
Blurred Lines, 2013
Some Fine Women
An Artist Panel Discussion with....
Some Fine Women
Artist Panel discussion
Catalog Publishing Reception
Artist BBQ Buffet
August 10th, 2013
6:30-midnight
Artists Panel:
Angela Kallus
Barbara McCarren
Cathy Fairbanks
Jamie Scholnick
Mary Warner
Michelle Carla Handel
Patricia Burns
Rachel Lachowicz
Wendy Kveck
Moderator:
Danielle Kelly
Catalog Essay:
Shana Nys Dambrot
Artist Panel Discussion will be introduced by Kirsten Swenson and discussion video will be available at vastspaceprojects.com
Kirsten Swenson is Assistant Professor of Contemporary Art and Aesthetics at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell. She was Assistant Professor of Art History at UNLV until 2012. She is a contributing writer to Art in America.
Danielle Kelly is an artist and writer based in Las Vegas, Nevada. Kelly's project-based practice ranges from installation to performance, and has been featured in solo and group exhibitions in Los Angeles, Seattle, Las Vegas, Portland, and most recently at SOMArts in San Francisco. Kelly's writing has appeared in a variety of publications locally including Las Vegas Weekly , Boulevards Magazine and Desert Companion.
Pick-up an exhibition catalog before the panel, meet the artists at the V A S T space projects gallery.
7-8:30 pm Listen to 9 of our Some Fine Women share some fine conversation. Moderated by Daniele Kelly. Recorded and available soon at vastspaceprojects.com
8:30-9 pm Enjoy another refreshment and have your catalog signed.
9-midnight Head over to the V A S T satellite space to see more of the exhibition and enjoy a BBQ Buffet.
The 5,000 sq feet warehouse exhibits a Alexis Smith's "The Scarlet Letter" mural lining the floor. Video, sculpture and photography are shown here too. Thomas Hydes will be singing live from artist Eloise Fornieles's video "Eternal Sea, Eternal Sky". Intuitive Forager, Kerry Clasby and the Downtown 3rd Farmers Market provides the seasons best with Stuart Yaffe salads. Guests feast on John Mull's RoadKill Grill smoked ribs and sliders from the outdoor cooker. Eric Mehn Swenson will be capturing it all in film stills and video. DJ Ladyfinger will be spinning sounds.
84 works of art
31 artists
3 spaces
Some Fine Women
Artist Panel
One night only
Saturday, August 10th, 2013
"That's some fine women!!"
- Shana Nys Dambrot
The '"Women' show is terrific: open, thought-provoking, diverse, wide-ranging, sensual, intelligent and fun."
- David Pagel
"Women are not typically permitted to decide whether/how much gender matters in their own work -- that is, the mantle of deliberate gender-consciousness is easily claimed but nearly impossible to shirk. It is assumed that gender informs most or all art made by most or all women at most or all times; it is stipulated that knowing the artist's gender informs the audience's experience. Even rebuffing assumptions about what women would do is seen as a response, and there we are again. Among these "fine women" then, there are some who embrace the question, some who ignore it, some who seek to subvert the entire debate, and many who leave room for the viewer to decide -- because part of being a woman, like being a man after all, is the transcendent and autonomous part that is only being a human."
- Shana Nys Dambrot, Los Angeles, July 2013
"The primary take-away from the experience of an ambitious exhibition such as this may ironically be that there is no single take-away on offer. The main thing such an exhibition is in a position to demonstrate, is that there is no single main thing about "women artists" that can be demonstrated. The best thing to do in the face of that is maybe to just relax into it, not think too much about the artist's gender unless the artist is inviting you to do so"
- catalog essay from Some Fine Women
Thank you to:
DOWNTOWN 3RD FARMERS MARKET
JOHN MULL'S ROADKILL GRILL
For more information, please contact Shannon Mc Mackin @ 323-240-2888 or VASTspaceprojects@icloud.com
Hours: Wednesday - Saturday 11am - 2pm and by appointment
V A S T space projects 730 w. sunset road henderson nv 89011