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A picture or image made with paint such as oils or watercolours.

Between Being And Looking

May 5, 1998 to May 23, 1998
Uncategorized
The artist is a white male, heterosexual, and judging by the surroundings, also middle class or more likely the dissatisfied heir of the middle class. Many of the references here are from black culture recognizing the huge influence African Americans have asserted in North American culture. The perfectly quoted Miles Davis or James Brown record covers sit like altars in these rooms. But the newspapers and magazines often tell a very different story.

January 21, 1997 to February 8, 1997
Uncategorized
I am currently working on a series of paintings that explores the construction of identity in the context of youth culture, motherhood and marginalization. The core of the work is my own experience as the lesbian mother of teenagers. The series goes on to examine related concerns--sickness and aging among them--that are raised as I am forced to accept my age in a culture that calls women old by the time they're 30.

October 8, 1996 to November 2, 1996
Uncategorized
I would like to propose a show of paintings and text to be presented at the grunt gallery. The title of the show would be called The Hardy Boys Revisited. The premise of the work would be that the Hardy Boys would be freed from the narrative time warp in which they are trapped perpetually as seventeen and eighteen year olds. By using fictitious book covers and titles the works chronicle their progression into adulthood and bring Frank and Joe Hardy into the 90's. For the purposes of this show they will begin aging from the late 60's, making them in 1995 in their mid 40's

September 17, 1996 to October 5, 1996
Exhibition
Johannes Zits' paintings explore representations of gay sexuality within the context of painting. His new work continues in this vein, presenting images of bar interiors and gay couples, on a scale and in the style of Abstract Expressinoism. The result is a kind of warring of two disparate languages: the extreme America machismo of Abstract Expressionism with its almost hyperbolic expression of a private subjective state and the contemporary representations of the more politicized private spaces of gay bars. Zits' work poses questions pertaining to the language of painting-laden with a modernist history-and the language of contemporary media culture with its emphasis on issues of identity and social space and sets up a tension between the two.