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ABOUT

GODDESSES 3.0听is conceived as a contemporary, feminist inquiry into the idea of the goddess 鈥� not as a fixed mythological figure, but as an听elastic听framework through which artists address power, embodiment, ritual, resistance, and cultural memory. The exhibition places historical feminist practices in dialogue with contemporary work, foregrounding both lineage and reinvention across generations and media.听In addition to video, drawing, performance, sculpture, prints, and multimedia, various items from popular culture are represented.听A听number of听historically significant听artists听are featured, and works on view include the听pioneering听Dara Birnbaum video听Technology/Transformation: Wonder Woman听from 1978.听Other represented artists include: 听Vanessa Beecroft,听gwen听charles,听Myrlande听Constant, Mary Beth Edelson, Chitra Ganesh, Geri Hahn, Donna Kessinger听(video documentary),听Pat听Lay, Mariko Mori, Julie Ann Nagle, Carolee Schneemann, and Nancy Spero.

The exhibition was curated by Sydney O. Jenkins, Director of the Art Galleries, and feminist artist and curator Donna Kessinger.

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EVENTS

GODDESSES 3.0 opens to the public on Wednesday, February 25th in the Berrie Center Kresge and Pascal Galleries at Ramapo College and continues on view through April 10. There will be a public reception with artist and curator talks on Wednesday, March 25th, from 5-7 p.m. Please note: the Galleries will be closed the week of March 16th for Spring Break!

This project is supported by a robust schedule of public programs, including a historically grounded lecture, an interdisciplinary panel discussion, a film screening, and artist talks.

See below for further details on the dates and times for these events! More will be announced soon.

Feb. 27

GODDESSES 3.0

February 27, 01:00 pm -- April 10, 05:00 pm

Berrie Center

A group exhibition of contemporary artists curated by Director of the Art Galleries Sydney Jenkins and feminist artist and curator Donna Kessinger.

Planned public programs include a lecture relating to goddesses history, a film screening and academic panel, exhibiting artists’ talks, and performance art.

From the classical to fashion history to myth to popular culture and political art, this exhibition will flex numerous ways to think about the meaning of听Goddesses.

Artists represented range from Dara Birnbaum, Nancy Spero, Mary Beth Edelson, and Carolee Schneemann to Myrlande Constant, Vanessa Beecroft, and Mariko Mori, among others.

This exhibition will be on view in through April 10th, with a reception on Wednesday, March 25th at 5 PM.

Dates of other GODDESSES 3.0 events to be announced soon!

View the information page for this exhibition here!

Image: Pat Lay, Altar Heads Series #4: Diviner, 2003, fired clay, steel, gold leaf.

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Mar. 06

Art History Talk - The Ballad of Miss Fortune

11:30 am - 01:30 pm

Berrie Center

Please join us in the Berrie Center Caf茅 at 11:30 for a special talk by Art Historian Maria Loh in which听she bridges renaissance imagery and notions of misogyny.

This event is held in conjunction with听GODDESSES 3.0, on view in the Kresge and Pascal Galleries February 25 – April 10. More information on GODDESSES 3.0听can be found here!

ABSTRACT

Kairos, Occasio, and Fortuna are complex facets of the same goddess of luck, but at a certain moment in time a troubling, schizophrenic iconography came into being, which cast Lady Luck as a distinctively female force, both a capricious agent controlling the Wheel of Fortune and also as a body that could be either violently seized or wildly adored. This lecture will explore the uneasy gendering of Fortuna in some early modern images such as an engraving by Marcantonio Raimondi in the Metropolitan Museum that bears the descriptive title听A Naked Man Holding Fortune by the Hair and Whipping Her. Rather than simply cancelling an image as such, I would like to take the opportunity to reflect upon the ideological work that such artworks accomplished in their own time and to push us to think about how we can and must make sense of them as twenty-first-century viewers.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER

Maria H. Loh is Professor of Art History at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.听Previously, she taught at CUNY Hunter College for six years and听at University College London for over a decade. She is听a contributor to听Art in America听and听the author of three books鈥�Titian Remade. Repetition and the Transformation of Early Modern Italian Art听(2007);听Still Lives. Death, Desire, and the Portrait of the Old Master听(2015); and听Titian鈥檚 Touch. Art, Magic, & Philosophy听(2019). She has also written on: horror and听鈥渟pecial affect鈥� in early modern painting and sculpture;听rainbow imagery in Stuart England;听melancholia and the Renaissance in Ottocento Italy; remakes in Chinese cinema; repetition in Hitchcock鈥檚听Vertigo; seriality and Sherrie Levine; and the 鈥渙pen work鈥� of Jeff Wall. Her forthcoming book鈥�Liquid Sky鈥攚ill be written for a general audience.听

Image: Maria Loh, courtesy of the Institute for Advanced Study.

Mar. 25

Film Screening - Ask the Goddess

02:30 pm - 04:30 pm

G126

As part of the听GODDESSES 3.0听exhibition, on view February 25 – April 10, the Ramapo College Art Galleries are pleased to present a screening of Carolee Schneemann’s Ask the Goddess (1991).

Ask the Goddess is a provocative performance in which Schneemann interacts with the audience by responding to sexual and psychic dilemmas read from cards they have submitted. A continuous relay of projected slides comprises an iconography of Goddess symbols, taboo and sacred, including images of animal attributes. Schneemann reacts spontaneously to the questions; she channels cogent answers triggered by the unpredictable images and finds herself physically activated, turning into a howling wolf or crawling across the projection area, squealing like a pig. (Description via Electronic Arts Intermix).

PLEASE NOTE: This film contains adult content.

Following the screening, there will be a panel discussion featuring , director of the Carolee Schneemann Foundation, , professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and , co-curator of GODDESSES 3.0 and feminist video artist.

Location: Room G126

Image: Carolee Schneemann,听Ask the Goddess, 1991. Photo courtesy of the Carolee Schneemann Foundation.

 

Mar. 25

Exhibition Reception

05:00 pm - 07:00 pm

Berrie Center

Join us in the Kresge and Pascal Galleries on Wednesday, March 25th from 5 – 7 PM to explore and celebrate the GODDESSES 3.0 and Relative to the Collection: Luce Turnier exhibitions!

The evening will begin with time to view the galleries, followed by artist and curator talks at 6 PM.

View the GODDESSES 3.0 information page here!

Refreshments will be provided.

Image: Nancy听Spero,听A New Consciousness听(detail), print, Ramapo College Collection, gift of the artist.

gwen charles, The Weight of Radiance, Piet脿 Recast, 2021
Stereolithography (SLA) 3D print. Scan and print courtesy of the Form Design Studio, Express Newark, Rutgers-Newark. Gratitude to dancer Aria Roach.

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