Wonder Women X, Selfie: Us and Them
October 21, 2016 – January 14, 2017

Artists:
Milcah Bassel, Hao Feng, Mediha Sandhu, Lulu Cipher, Jennifer Marie Torres, Meredith Goncalves, Stephanie Quispilaya, curated by Doris Cacoilo and Christine DaCruz

Artist Reception Friday, October 21, 6-9pm
Artists Talk: Sunday, November 20, 2pm

Databending Workshop: Saturday, January 14, 3-6pm
Closing Party: Saturday, January 14, 6-8pm

Two hundred years after the invention of photography, digital technologies have given a ubiquitous and omnipresent power to the image of self that has altered our identity and our relationship to the image of ourselves indefinitely. Throughout any survey of art history one must recognize the self portrait of the artist. Artists choosing the subject of self and exploring through self expression, self knowledge and exhibition; in the creation of self image an identity they choose to share. It is in this seeming vulnerability and performance that artists have given themselves to the audience and created moments where we can glimpse their relationship to themselves.

In the tenth edition of Wonder Women the artists and curators explored the image of self in a world newly frot with millions of daily images. The artists in this exhibtion include Mediha Sandhu, Hao Feng, Lulu Cipher, Jennifer Torres, Meredith Goncalves, Milcah Bassel, Stephanie Quispilaya, and are curated by Doris Cacoilo and Christine DaCruz. In this exhibition the artists explore and critique our own modern relationships to self image, the #selfie, and image making as identity and brand. Through video, photography, painting and illustration the artists have explored these themes together in a six-week residency and present these pieces for exhibition. In this short timeline personal explorations of self connect with reflections on the history of artists’ self portraiture. It is in choosing how one presents the self that we can deduce among many things: social, political, creative and introspective analysis the artist presents in the work. In the age of the selfie and the amateur the self portrait gains a new identity, arguably juvenile and unimportant and yet enormously powerful.

Hao Feng, video still from #haolookup, 2016

Hao Feng, video still from #haolookup, 2016

Micah Bassel, video still from Grid Piece, 2016