ADAA: The Art Show

Martha Wilson

ADAA: THE ART SHOW

March 4 - March 9, 2014

P∙P∙O∙W will install a solo booth of rare, never before exhibited historical works, vintage photographs, ephemera and films by Martha Wilson (1939- ), which highlight the four seminal years she spent in Halifax, Nova Scotia (1970-74).  For over forty years Wilson’s work has revealed contestations inherent in feminist and socially engaged practices, paralleling the ways that identity and posturing are not just projected, but negotiated. Her performance, video, photography and text work created between 1970 and 1974 investigated the self, as well as the notion of self-perception, through both physical and cultural lenses.  All of the works from this period were created in Halifax, where Wilson first began to create art that responded to the marginalization of females by the male-dominated art school environment. Wilson was recently described by art critic Holland Cotter as one of “the half-dozen most important people for art in downtown Manhattan in the 1970’s.”