Now on view Cheim and Read Gallery is The Female Gaze: Women Look at Women, a group exhibition of women artists depicting the female form. Featuring artists such as Berenice Abbott, Diane Arbus, Vanessa Beecroft, Lynda Benglis, Louise Bourgeois, Kathe Burkhart, Rineke Dijkstra, Marlene Dumas, Nan Goldin, Katy Grannan, Jenny Holzer, Sally Mann, Joan Mitchell, Alice Neel, Shirin Neshat, Cindy Sherman, Francesca Woodman and Hellen van Meene.  Through a variety of mediums this exhibition seeks to present a collection of works which reclaim the traditional domination of the “male gaze” and reorient the significance of the female figure to allow for more varied interpretations.

The Female Gaze: Women Look At Women
Thursday, June 25—Saturday, September 19, 2009

Cheim & Read
547 West 25th Street, New York
(212) 242-7727

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Monday night, West-Coast based photographer Katy Grannan will be speaking at Aperture Gallery in the latest edition of an ongoing lecture series from Parsons The New School for Design. Grannan works predominantly in portraiture and strives to embody the subject’s personality, usually allowing him or her choice in wardrobe and pose. The artist’s first monograph, Model American, was published by Aperture in 2005. Her work is also included in the group exhibition Into the Sunset: Photography’s Image of the American West at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.

Monday, March 30, 2009
6:30 pm

FREE

Aperture Gallery
547 West 27th Street
New York, New York
(212) 505-5555

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Now on view at the Photographers’ Gallery in London is American Portraitist Katy Grannan’s show, The Westerns. These large-format photographs feature portraits of individuals living on the west coast of America. By employing non-professional models and most often allowing them to choose their own pose and costume, Grannan achieves greater psychological insight through her work. Dilemmas concerning the transience of identity and the point of fantasy meeting reality are brought to the forefront, leaving the viewer to admire both the formal qualities of the images and the pioneer spirits of the individuals pictured. The concept of the American West has always carried connotations of endless possibilities, and Grannan’s subjects are seemingly caught betwixt this and the reverberations of modern day Hollywood in what the artist refers to as “a very romantic notion of themselves”.

To see Katy Grannan’s work stateside, check out Salon 94 and Greenburg Van Doren Galleries in New York City.

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The Westerns
December 6, 2008-February 8, 2009
Photographers’ Gallery
16-18 Ramilles Street, London
0845-262-1618

Another Woman Who Died in Her Sleep
January 9-February 16, 2009
Greenburg Van Doren
730 Fifth Avenue, New York
(212) 445-0444

Lady Into Fox
January 5-February 23, 2009
Salon 94
12 East 94th Street, New York
(646) 672-9212