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Under the Sign of Scorpio

January 11, 2007- February 10, 2007

Reception: January 11, 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Tracey Moffatt

Stux Gallery

530 W 25th St

Stux Gallery presents the New York premiere of Tracey Moffatt’s new photographic series, Under the Sign of Scorpio. For this, the artist’s first exhibition at the Stux Gallery, Moffatt depicts herself appearing as forty well-known and extraordinary women from history and popular culture, all born under the astrological sign of Scorpio (the artist herself was born on November 12th, which makes her a Scorpio as well). The exhibition will feature the premiere of Doom, a film exploring destruction and Armageddon as realized in the cannons of Hollywood cinema. This new film takes it’s cues from Moffatt’s compelling film oeuvre (Artist 2003, Love 2003, Lip 1999) in which she methodically amasses hundreds of film clips that are re-edited into telling commentaries on popular culture.

“My Scorpio series pays tribute to a vast array of women. I’ve portrayed myself as Roseanne Barr, Goldie Hawn, Whoopi Goldberg; Hillary Rodham Clinton (to become the first American woman President); Marcia Langton and Oodgeroo Noonuccal (both Australian Aboriginal intellectuals and political activists and heroines to me); Tina Brown and Anna Wintour (brilliant English magazine editors); Fran Leibowitz (wit like no other); and Billie Jean King (the most alive tennis player ever)

In my portraits I have tried to capture their spirit and likeness, but only “at a moment’s glance”. It is almost like the moment when you see a famous person in a restaurant. Everyone is craning their necks to get a glimpse, only to end up with a fleeting view of the back of the celebrity as they exit into the VIP room.

I shot the photographs with a simple digital camera in my loft against a bed sheet curtain, and in my cramped awful bathroom. I then added the high-key supernatural colored landscape backgrounds to the images in Photoshop on my computer. Rather than a formal portrait, I wanted a very pop, almost comic book quality. I propose that all of these women are ‘pop figures’, they are a part of the landscape of popular western culture.”-Tracey Moffatt

Tracey Moffatt has exhibited in major museums and galleries around the world with exhibitions at the California Museum of Photography, California, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Yerba Buena Center, San Francisco, Leipziger Kunstverein Leipzig, Germany, The National Museum of Photography, Denmark, Fundacio `La Caixa', Barcelona, ICA, Boston, Kunsthalle Vienna, Vienna, Austria, Dia Center for the Arts, New York, Musee dArt Contemporain, France, Centre for Contemporary Arts, UK, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, International Center of Photography, New York.

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