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History Painting for the New Queer Subject<\/em> by Molly Zuckerman-Hartung
80″x65″; dye, acrylic, enamel, paper, ink, rope, wood, and mixed media on canvas; 2016 Courtesy of the artist, Corbett vs. Dempsey, and Rachel Uffner Gallery.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

COLLAGE ON VIEW<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Molly Zuckerman-Hartung: Comic Relief<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

at the Blaffer Art Museum in Houston, Texas, USA
31 October 2021-13 March 2022<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

“Comic Relief” is the first major museum survey dedicated to the work of the iconoclastic American artist, writer, and educator Molly Zuckerman-Hartung. Featuring over 100 artworks made across the past twenty years, this exhibition celebrates multiple dimensions of Zuckerman-Hartung\u2019s punk-influenced aesthetic\u2014tracing an expansive practice that spans assemblage, paintings and sculptures, drawings and prints, photographs, writing, and performance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In her formative years, Zuckerman-Hartung participated in Riot Grrrl\u2014the 1990s underground punk scene that originated in the Pacific Northwest and exhorted radical female empowerment through collaborative community-building and the rejection of male-dominated power structures. This involvement had a lasting effect on the artist, instilling within her a permanent inclination toward inquiry and critique, as well as a deep-rooted sense of creative resistance to societal boundaries, cultural norms, and conventional aesthetics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Comic Relief<\/em> by Molly Zuckerman-Hartung
80″x65″x4″; gloved appendages, acrylic on canvas; 2016. Courtesy of the artist, Corbett
vs. Dempsey, and Rachel Uffner Gallery.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Since the mid-2000s, Zuckerman-Hartung has primarily identified as a painter\u2014often rethinking, performing, or activating aspects of the medium’s long history, various visual languages, and critical strategies as a starting place for her own socially-conscious practice. The artist’s densely-cobbled, largely abstract objects vary in scale and evocatively draw on references to feminist and queer theories, pop culture, literature, psychoanalysis, art history, current events, comedy, and her life. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The exhibition was organized by Curator Tyler Blackwell and Associate Curator Cynthia Woods Mitchell.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(text adapted from the museum’s press materials)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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INFORMATION<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Blaffer Art Museum<\/strong>
120 Fine Arts Building
University of Houston
Houston, Texas 77204 USA
(713) 743-9521<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hours:
Tuesday-Friday, 10AM-5PM
Saturday-Sunday, Noon-5PM
Closed 25-28 November 2021 and 24 December 2021-2 January 2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n

MAP<\/a> | WEBSITE<\/a> | FACEBOOK<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

COLLAGE ON VIEW Molly Zuckerman-Hartung: Comic Relief at the Blaffer Art Museum in Houston, Texas, USA31 October 2021-13 March 2022 “Comic Relief” is the first major museum survey dedicated to the work of the iconoclastic American artist, writer, and educator…<\/p>\n

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