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Email PagePhoto Femmes
November 30, 2006- January 6, 2007
Reception: November 30, 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Heather Bennett, Laura London, Francie Bishop Good, Fay Ray, Julee Holcombe, Carly Steward
Caren Golden Fine Art
539 W 23rd St Heather Bennett Trash (2005) |  Francie Bishop Good Carly NY, Kapoor and Man (2006) |  Julee Holcombe Self as Narcissus (2005) |
 Laura London Portraits on Location: Young Hopefuls, TV as metaphor for life |  Fay Ray Thing Inside Myself 2 (2006) |  Carly Steward Construction (2006) |
Heather Bennett is both the subject and documenter of her fictions. She parodies classic feminist parables and deconstructs the portrait of woman in contemporary visual culture. In her most recent body of work, her highly stylized images present iconic characters of female oppression rendered with the stylized veneer of fashion. Her imagery juxtapose the subservience of her self-portraits to her position as the author and director of the image.
Francie Bishop Good has documented her niece, Carly, for more than nine years. Her ongoing project is a prolonged meditation on the relationship between a young girl and our culture at large. Frequently a looming, out-of-focus figure on the periphery of an unsettling mise en scène, Carly is the surrogate for the artist, the viewer, the universal social consciousness -- a girl/woman forming her sense of identity in a chaotic world.
Laura London’s seemingly spontaneous images are in fact the result of her careful orchestration of the setting, costumes, lighting and stage direction of her photographs. In her newest series titled "Portraits on Location: Young Hopefuls," London has imbued the optimism of youth with suggestions of possible failure and disillusionment. The cultural signifiers of each chosen location alter the otherwise positive image of youth’s limitless potential.
Using hundreds of digital photographs to form her montage, Julee Holcombe's seamless images emulate Renaissance paintings while commenting on contemporary issues of identity. She instills psychic tension in each of her works by embedding her temporal subjects within timeless cultural frameworks. In “Self as Narcissus” she is both the author and a double subject of the photograph, confounding the viewer with a multitude of identities within a single image.
Fay Ray co-opts photographic images from magazines to explore the commodification of the female body. By coupling the mechanical and the corporal, she transforms the figure and the object to create images that transcend either category. Aptly named “Thing Inside Myself,” her series of collages illustrates how much we are a co-mingling of the interior and the exterior, the physical and the material, the spirit and the tangible.
Carly Steward's photographs are a coda to the work in the PHOTO FEMMES exhibition. As the other artworks are filled with figurative images, self-portraiture and implied narratives, Steward's work document museum installations after the exhibition has been dismantled and the artifacts removed. Attention is drawn to the artifact absent from its intended context and leads us to question what in fact is the subject matter that we are viewing — the empty space, the display as an architectural structure or the photograph itself as discrete object.
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