Installation image. Pictured left to right: Lorraine O’Grady, Cutting Out CONYT 12, 1977/2017. Letterpress printing on Japanese paper, cut-out, collage, Diptych each 41 x 29 inches. Carrie Mae Weems, Slow Fade to Black (Lena Horne), 2009-2010. Inkjet print. 46.5 x 35 inches. Laurel Shear, About Nothing and Everything All At Once, 2018. Oil on canvas. 48 x 48 inches. Image courtesy of Fort Ganesvoort.
Alumna Laura Shear (MFA in Studio Art, 2015) and alumna Adriana Corral (MFA in Studio Art, 2013) are featured in My Silences Had Not Protected Me, a partnership exhibition between the New York gallery Fort Gansevoort and For Freedoms, platform for creative civic engagement, discourse, and direct action for artists.
My Silences Had Not Protected Me is a “resistance to the rigid, disparaging, and marketed monolith of feminine identity that influences the way women are taught and expected to exist within their own physical space - the body.”
It includes work by over 20 artists such as Marilyn Minter, Carrie Mae Weems, Ana Mendieta, Martha Wilson, Lorraine O’Grady and Lava Thomas, among many others. The exhibition opened November 8 and will be on view through December 22, 2018.