Just before our holiday break, Carolyn Jervis wrote about our two December shows, Taxonomia and Working Order in Vue:
Usually my first reaction upon seeing taxidermy, or representations thereof, is to be creeped out. The posed, stuffed animal skins with their vacant glassy eyes are so transparently false in their imitation of living breathing things. Somehow Maria Whiteman’s Taxonomia, Latitude 53’s current Main Space exhibition, manages to create a space for intimate relationships with these and other preserved creatures.
Read the rest at Vue Weekly.
Maria Whiteman and Karen Zalamea’s shows are still up until tomorrow, so if you haven’t had a chance to see them yet, come on down to the gallery today before 7 or tomorrow afternoon.
Once that’s done, we’ll be closing our doors for the holidays until January 2nd. Our next shows by Emanuel Licha and Nicole Rayburn open on January 13th—we’ll have some info up on the website that you can read over the holidays. And, if you’re a member, look forward to our winter newsletter in the mail sometime soon with more about our upcoming season.
We’re open!
Today our shows by Karen Zalamea and Maria Whiteman are ready for you once again, after our Schmoozy interlude this weekend. They’ll be up until the 17th.
Do you have memories from Schmoozy? Email us or send them right to the blog under submit and we’ll share them!
Change-over time!
Today we unfortunately have to take Maria Whiteman and Karen Zalamea’s wonderful work down off the gallery walls to start getting ready for Saturday’s Schmoozy. But because the photographs and video aren’t too much trouble to install, we’ll be keeping them tucked away in a back room and returning them to their former splendour next Wednesday—so you’ll have a final chance to see them before they come down for good after the 17th.
And in the mean time, you’ve still got a chance to pick up advance tickets for Schmoozy until Friday—but tomorrow the price goes up to $35.
Tonight Maria Whiteman will be at the gallery at 7:00 for an artist’s talk. Come see Taxonomia from her point of view!
If you haven’t yet come by the gallery to see the shows and picked up your own copy of Amanda Boetzkes’ essay on Maria Whiteman’s Taxonomia, you can take a peek at it on our website:
Fundamentally, the exhibition calls attention to the methods and settings that contain animal life, be they the discursive framing of anatomy, the preservation and storage of animal bodies, or even more subtly, the visual and tactile modes by which we perceive those bodies. The practice of taxonomy, Whiteman shows, is underpinned by a conflicted passion to both adore and possess animals. It entails a kind of scopophilia—an impetus to see the animal, to discover its surfaces and textures.
Read the whole thing here
Don’t forget about Maria Whiteman’s opening this Friday at 7:00 pm—but if you can’t wait that long to see her fantastic photographs, drop by any time this week to take a look at them, as well as Karen Zalamea’s video works.
That’s right—we’ve got two new shows opening tomorrow. Due to scheduling we’re having the opening reception next week on Friday the 11th, but you can come by and see the work itself as soon as we open our doors tomorrow at 11:00 am—lots of great big photographs by Maria Whiteman and in the ProjEx room videos by Karen Zalamea. Find out more on our website
