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Visual Art Currently Hanging
Posted by Jen Graves on Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 3:02 PM
Marisol Rendón's At 1:00 am, charcoal on paper
This menacing, gorgeous empty refrigerator (one from a series seen at various angles) has terrific double meaning situated in Southern California and made by an artist originally from Colombia. In wealthy San Diego, where the artist now lives, it might mean the spectre of sheer, anorexia-fueled power and glory. In poorer Colombia, well, you get it.
This drawing is up at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, where last week I came across a remarkable exhibition devoted to drawing-based works by women artists of Southern and Baja California (there also were two magnificent large-scale works in the show, by Tania Candiani—see her piece fully documented here—and Iana Quesnell, found here). It's the second in a yearlong series of three exhibitions the museum is doing on women artists of the area. I apologize to the survivors of any female artists of the Northwest who just dropped dead from hearing about the steady and intelligent institutional attention their southern peers are getting. (In a separate exhibition was this gynocentric gem from the museum's collection, an ancestor of Rendón's drawing.)
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