Curated By: Betsy Odom

OPENING RECEPTION with curator and artists: November 11, 2010, 5-8pm

OPENING NIGHT PROGRAMMING
Artist Performances
Indoor 5k, run with Mary George, 4:30-6:30pm. (To join the 5k, meet the artist and get your numbered race bibs in the lobby of 1104 S Wabash from 4:30-5:00.)
I Will Always Love You, interactive performance by Allison Halter, 5:30pm
Accompanying Lecture
“Crossing the Line: Genre & Identity”, a reading and lecture by award-winning author Dorothy Allison, 7:30pm in the Conaway Center adjacent to the Glass Curtain Gallery

Tomboy examines the degrees to which identity and gender influence meaning in the work of six contemporary queer women artists. From painterly gestures to performative acts, sculptural installations to digitally altered photographs, this exhibition explores the variety of approaches artists take in negotiating notions of identity. These works turn away from the essentialism of early feminist art and the specificity of “identity art,” and instead employ identity in intentionally ambiguous, mercurial, and peripheral ways. Tomboy delves into the murky spaces between the personal, the political, and the formal in order to ask viewers the question: “can and should what we know about an artist be separated from how we experience their work?”

Participating Artists: Kelli Connell, Dana DeGiulio, Daphne Fitzpatrick, Mary George, Allison Halter, Leeza Meksin