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Immediate Press Release
September 4, 2018
Joshua Tree Art Gallery
GENDER BENDERS
Cat Celebrezze and Nancy Floyd present works which challenge us to questions our notion of women.
Building a Better Baphomet | Cat Celebrezze
The gods and monsters of our time are in serious need of an overhaul. Once again, they’ve oozed down into a limited number of monolithic shapes, familiar as they are pedestrian. They’ve melded into one giant repeat - like a television show in syndication, a tweet retweeted ad nauseum, a spaceship in endless orbit. So let’s forego the rehab of those old saws. Let’s instead go intrepid and imagine something well beyond the dialectic. And what better resource to enlist in such a lark than Baphomet - that pagan, written and written again hybrid of an idol. Using the goat-headed, transgendered god/dess of alchemy, satanism, the occult and the heretical, we at least free ourselves from so many pitfalls of thesis-antithesis-synthesis bullshit. To that end, I present two series: The Baphomet Queens and their Minions and Fairies with Boots.
SHE’S GOT A GUN | Nancy Floyd
Nancy Floyd’s photographic series She’s Got a Gun comprises powerful, compelling images of Floyd’s research on the topic of women and guns in three specific areas: pleasure, power and profession. Images of women in the military, Olympic event shooters, female police of officers, women who own for purposes of self-defense and many others are included in the exhibition. Floyd, raised in League City, Texas, grew up in a popular culture ripe with associations with guns: cowboy and Indian games, plastic pistols full of candy and watching Gunsmoke
on television wit h her family. She purchased her first gun in 1991, right after Desert Storm, largely as a way to connect with her brother who had wanted to be a gunsmith. He died in Vietnam when she was 12. Initially, Nancy was afraid of the gun, but over time she began attending Ladies Night at the local shooting range and befriending other women who shared her interest. Floyd’s book of the same title was published by Temple University Press in 2008. Her book was the first to combine personal story telling with a visual history of women and guns in America, 1850 to the present.
Nancy Floyd holds an MFA from California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA, an MA from Columbia College, Chicago, IL, and a BFA from the University of Texas at Austin. She’s been an exhibiting artist for over thirty years and has received numerous grants and awards including a 2016 CUE Art Foundation Fellowship, a 2015 Society for Photographic Education Future Focus Project Support Grant, and a 2014 John Gutmann Photography Fellowship Award. In 2016 her work was acquired by the High Museum of Art. She was also Runner-up for the 2017 Aperture Portfolio Prize. www.nancy Floyd.com
Artist talk will be held on Sunady September 9 from 1-2pm.
Artist:
Cat Celebrezze and Nancy Floyd present works which challenge us to questions our notion of women.
Info@joshuatreeartgallery.com
Building a Better Baphomet | Cat Celebrezze
The gods and monsters of our time are in serious need of an overhaul. Once again, they’ve oozed down into a limited number of monolithic shapes, familiar as they are pedestrian. They’ve melded into one giant repeat - like a television show in syndication, a tweet retweeted ad nauseum, a spaceship in endless orbit. So let’s forego the rehab of those old saws. Let’s instead go intrepid and imagine something well beyond the dialectic. And what better resource to enlist in such a lark than Baphomet - that pagan, written and written again hybrid of an idol. Using the goat-headed, transgendered god/dess of alchemy, satanism, the occult and the heretical, we at least free ourselves from so many pitfalls of thesis-antithesis-synthesis bullshit. To that end, I present two series: The Baphomet Queens and their Minions and Fairies with Boots.
SHE’S GOT A GUN | Nancy Floyd
Nancy Floyd’s photographic series She’s Got a Gun comprises powerful, compelling images of Floyd’s research on the topic of women and guns in three specific areas: pleasure, power and profession. Images of women in the military, Olympic event shooters, female police of officers, women who own for purposes of self-defense and many others are included in the exhibition. Floyd, raised in League City, Texas, grew up in a popular culture ripe with associations with guns: cowboy and Indian games, plastic pistols full of candy and watching Gunsmoke
on television wit h her family. She purchased her first gun in 1991, right after Desert Storm, largely as a way to connect with her brother who had wanted to be a gunsmith. He died in Vietnam when she was 12. Initially, Nancy was afraid of the gun, but over time she began attending Ladies Night at the local shooting range and befriending other women who shared her interest. Floyd’s book of the same title was published by Temple University Press in 2008. Her book was the first to combine personal story telling with a visual history of women and guns in America, 1850 to the present.
Nancy Floyd holds an MFA from California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA, an MA from Columbia College, Chicago, IL, and a BFA from the University of Texas at Austin. She’s been an exhibiting artist for over thirty years and has received numerous grants and awards including a 2016 CUE Art Foundation Fellowship, a 2015 Society for Photographic Education Future Focus Project Support Grant, and a 2014 John Gutmann Photography Fellowship Award. In 2016 her work was acquired by the High Museum of Art. She was also Runner-up for the 2017 Aperture Portfolio Prize. www.nancy Floyd.com
Nancy Floyd is a former resident of Joshua Tree Highlands Artist Residency in 2010.
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