If Everything is an Outrage: The Binder of Women
FEBRUARY 8 THRU JULY 18, 2020
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Sean Meredith ~ sean@track16.com
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Genie Davis reviews If Everything is an Outrage for Art and Cake
"Eleven artists from the collective present work in this terrific exhibition, which is filled with a wide range of mediums, styles, and subjects. By creating their own “binder” they are handling a different disparity – in artistic representation. Each work is strong." – Genie Davis
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Track 16 presents a group show with members from the Los Angeles-based women’s art collective, Binder of Women. The name of the collective references the 2012 U.S. presidential debate between Mitt Romney and Barack Obama. Mitt Romney was asked how he intended to deal with the pay disparity between men and women, and Romney explained that he went to women’s groups asking to find qualified female candidates and they brought him “binders full of women.” The phrase quickly became a meme, mocking the patriarchal world of politics and a politician who so lacked contact with professional women that he had to resort to binders. It seems the art world is no different, as the lack of representation of female artists has been a long-standing issue that has given rise to feminist activist groups such as the Guerilla Girls.
ARTIST BIOS
Michelle Blade is a visual artist working in painting, sculpture and installation. Blade has exhibited nationally and internationally, including exhibitions at the Center for Contemporary Arts-Santa Fe, Bonnefantenmuseum Netherlands, Johansson Projects, Jack Hanley Gallery SF, Roberts & Tilton, and Western Exhibitions. Her work has been featured in The NY Times Magazine, The Paris Review, Gather Journal, GQ, Juxtapoz, The California Sunday Magazine, and Blue Magazine among others. Clients include The Thing Quarterly, Chronicle Books, RVCA, Air BnB and Facebook. She is a founding member of the Los Angeles art collective, The Binder and holds a BA from Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles and an MFA from the California College of the Arts, San Francisco.
Yasmine Nasser Diaz navigates overlapping tensions around religion, gender, and third-culture identity using personal archives, found imagery and various media on paper as well as installation. Born and raised in Chicago to parents who immigrated from the highlands of southern Yemen, her mixed media work often reflects personal histories of the opposing cultures she was raised within. She has exhibited and performed at spaces including the Brava Theater in San Francisco, the Torrance Art Museum, Charlie James Gallery, and Station Beirut. Diaz is a 2019 California Community Foundation Visual Artist Fellow with works included in the collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The University of California Los Angeles, and The Poetry Project Space in Berlin. She lives and works in Los Angeles.
Rema Ghuloum currently lives and works in Los Angeles, CA. Rema received her BFA in Drawing and Painting from California State University, Long Beach in 2007 and her MFA from California College of the Arts in San Francisco in 2010. Rema was a recipient of the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant in 2018, Adolf and Esther Gottlieb Foundation Emergency Grant in 2017, Esalen Pacifica Prize in 2012, the Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant in 2010, and was an artist in residence at the Joan Mitchell Center in New Orleans in 2018. Rema has exhibited nationally and internationally at venues like Edward Cella Art + Architecture, Et al. Gallery, Hawthorn Contemporary, the Cue Foundation, UCLA's New Wight Gallery, Five Car Garage, George Lawson Gallery, Torrance Art Museum, and Arka Gallery in Vladivostok, Russia.
Janna Ireland was born in Philadelphia, but has chosen Los Angeles as her home. She holds an MFA the from UCLA Department of Art and a BFA from the Department of Photography and Imaging at NYU. Ireland is the 2013 recipient of the Snider Prize, presented by the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College Chicago. Her work has been shown in solo exhibitions in Los Angeles, San Francisco, New Orleans, and Chicago, and in group exhibitions across the United States and internationally. She has been published in Aperture, Art Papers, Vice, and The Los Angeles Times. Her first monograph, a photographic study of the work of legendary black architect Paul R. Williams, will be published by Angel City Press in September 2020.
Kysa Johnson ’s drawings, paintings and installations explore patterns in nature that exist at the extremes of scale. Using the shapes of subatomic decay patterns, maps of the universe or the molecular structure of pollutants or of diseases and cures – in short, microscopic or macroscopic “landscapes” – it depicts a physical reality that is invisible to the naked eye. Often these micro patterns are built up to form compositions that relate to them conceptually. Recent work utilizes images of particle decay patterns, phytoplankton and chemical components of petroleum to create drawings and paintings that explore the geological history of oil from its chemical inception in nebulae to its modern extraction from the earth.
Galia Linn is a sculptor and site-specific installation artist living and working in Los Angeles. Linn constructs relationships between subject, object and their environments by creating elemental tensions; a delicate balance between the mediums’ limits and Linn’s exploration with life’s imperfections. The work is influenced by an early childhood in Israel, a land full of ancient and contemporary relics of past and present civilizations. Linn has shown nationally and internationally, and is part of numerous private collections in Los Angeles, Miami, New York, Paris, Brussels and Tel-Aviv. Currently on display at Craft Contemporary a site responsive installation in the courtyard for the museum 2nd clay biennale. Selected past exhibitions include: Evidence of Care, Track 16 Gallery, Los Angeles, CA;. Note to Self, Five Car Garage gallery, Santa Monica, CA. Experience 19: Touch, El Segundo Museum of Art, CA; Clay, Lefebvre et Fils, Paris, France; Vessels, LA><Art. Los Angeles, CA. She is the founder, Blue Roof Studios a multidisciplinary art hub located in South Los Angeles.
Bruna Massadas is a Brazilian-American artist based in Montana who works in various media, including painting and performance. Recent solo exhibitions include "Not Like in the Movies" at the Nook Gallery in Oakland and “The Face Painter” at Guerrero Gallery in San Francisco, and recent group exhibitions include The Dot Project in London, 0-0 L.A. in Los Angeles, and a traveling exhibition with BBQLA. Massadas has been actively involved with the Bay Area’s art collective CTRL+SHFT and the Los Angeles-based The Binder of Women. She received an M.F.A. from California College of the Arts.
Sarana Mehra is a multidisciplinary artist whose work examines the relation between the body, body-politic and the cycle of disintegration and evolution in human-made systems like art, language and technology. Drawing on the imaging and stories of Eastern and Western mythologies and the artifacts of past civilizations gathering dust in our museums, Sarana uses her practice to examine a “future relic”. Each piece, like the remnants of our ancestors, leaves clues and symbols but ultimately obfuscates their contemporary use and ritual. Her work posits that despite our technological advancements we remain, like our primordial forebears who left their handprints on the cave wall, desperate to be remembered yet unable to thwart decay. Sarana Mehra is a bi-racial British-American artist living and working in Los Angeles. Her work has been shown in various art institutions in the US and Europe, most recently the Wignall Museum of Contemporary Art (LA), The Pit (LA), 00-LA, (LA), Strasse55 (Berlin), and the Every Woman Biennial (LA). Sarana gained her BFA from the University of Oxford and her MFA from Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design (London).
Erin Morrison (b. Arkansas 1985) received her MFA from University of California, Los Angeles in 2014. Her relief paintings have been included in several recent group exhibitions including Sonia Dutton, New York, The Pit, Los Angeles, C.E.S, Los Angeles, Chimento Contemporary, Los Angeles, Samuel Freeman, Los Angeles, UPFOR, Portland, James Harris Gallery, Seattle and Ochi Projects, Los Angeles. Morrison currently lives in Hong Kong and is represented by Ochi Projects, Los Angeles.
Julia Schwartz is an artist working in Santa Monica. She has exhibited nationally and internationally, including a solo installation “tenderly cradled and lavishly flung” at Visitor Welcome Center in 2018 and recent work with the Binder of Women, including a limited edition print release at The Pit and upcoming group shows. Curatorial projects include "States of Being” at the Torrance Art Museum (2015) and "Black Mirror" at Charlie James Gallery (2017). Her work has been featured in numerous publications, including New American Paintings, Two Coats of Paint, Huffington Post, and The New York Times.
Ginger Wolfe-Suarez is an artist and curator who has been based in the San Francisco area, Los Angeles, and Atlanta. Wolfe-Suarez holds an MFA from University of California at Berkeley in 2009, where she was a recipient of the Eisner Award. In her creative practice, she recently completed a site specific installation which was a solo exhibition at The Atlanta Center for Contemporary Art. She was awarded a residency at SOMA in Mexico City DF, and is currently a faculty member and Interim Director of the Zuckerman Museum of Art in the Metro-Atlanta area. She is the mother of two children.
