Material girls

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"'Material Girls' is about women taking up space. This large-scale group exhibition brings together Canadian and international emerging, mid-career, and senior female artists from across artistic disciplines and cultural backgrounds. Uniting these works is an exploration of material process and notions of excess as they relate to the feminized body, gendered space, and capitalist desire. Sumptuous, decorative, and visually overwhelming, the exhib...

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"The publication originates from Material Girls, an exhibition curated by Blair Fornwald, Jennifer Matotek, and Wendy Peart, presented at Dunlop Art Gallery from 30 January - 4 April, 2015."
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Contents:

Being material / Wendy Peart
Some thoughts on Miley Cyrus, material girls, and the aesthetics of feminine excess / Blair Fornwald
The decorative effect / Jennifer Matotek
Artist project / Tricia Middleton
Artist's pages: Morehshin Allahyari, Jaime Angelopoulos, Christi Belcourt, Katherine Boyer, Karin Bubas̆, Andrea Carlson, Ying-Yueh Chuang, Alex Cu Unjieng, Raphaëlle de Groot, Abigail DeVille, Soheila Esfahani, Ran Hwang, Sarah Anne Johnson, Felice Koenig, Deirdre Logue, Rachel Ludlow, Jodie Mack, Amy Malbeuf, Sanaz Mazinani, Meryl McMaster, Tricia Middleton, Allyson Mitchell, Dominique Rey, Winnie Truong, Marie Watt
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Artist bios
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2011267

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BC Libraries Cooperative. National Network for Equitable Library Service
Dunlop Art Gallery, host institution
Fornwald, Blair, curator, contributing essayist
Matotek, Jennifer, curator, contributing essayist
Peart, Wendy, curator, contributing essayist

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