Girls’ Club presents Re-Framing the Feminine Catalog Launch and Panel Discussion
Saturday, September 15, 2012, 6-9 pm
Girls’ Club
117 NE 2nd Street
Fort Lauderdale, FL 33301
The public is invited to celebrate the publication of Re-Framing the Feminine, a catalog that accompanies the exhibition. A panel discussion will examine feminine perspectives in photography.
In conjunction with Re-Framing the Feminine, an exhibition of contemporary photography by women, Girls’ Club is pleased to announce the publication of the exhibition catalog of the same name.
The public is cordially invited to attend the book launch event and panel discussion before the exhibition closes permanently September 30, 2012.
The panel, moderated by artist and Girls’ Club Creative Director Michelle Weinberg, will provide an informal, open forum for discussion about the works in the exhibition and the role of female artists using the mediums of photography and digital imaging. What is quintessentially feminine about the way women make photographs? The panel participants include Dina Mitrani, whose gallery in Miami’s Wynwood district shows photography by international artists. Artist/educator Peggy Levison Nolan will share her approaches and ideas in pursuit of passionate, human imagery as a photographer whose connection to the camera brims with vitality. Miami graphic design team Lemon Yellow, composed of Erika Morales and Julian Martin will share their experience extending the experience of the exhibition into the form of a published catalog, and the importance of the photographic image in contemporary graphic design. Photography-based artist and art historian Amalia Caputo will weigh in on the female state of photography today.
The catalog itself features full color photos of works in the exhibition. Catalog texts include essays by art historian and photography critic Vicki Goldberg, a curator’s statement by Dina Mitrani, and a poem by local writer Emma Trelles. The catalog is 106 pages and is available for $35 on the Girls’ Club web site shop page – www.girlsclubcollection.org/store.
The Re-Framining the Feminine exhibition and catalog were made possible with funds from Funding Arts Broward, the Elizabeth Firestone Graham Foundation and private donors.
Opening Friday, November 2, 2012 is Following the Line, a look at contemporary drawing and print works on paper. More than 40 works from the collection of Francie Bishop Good and David Horvitz will be on view. Curated by Carol Jazzar,
Founded in 2006 by artist Francie Bishop Good and her husband David Horvitz, Girls’ Club is a 501(c)3 foundation and alternative space, the only private collection in the world dedicated to exhibiting contemporary art by women. Cutting edge works in painting, drawing, photography and video are presented in curated, thematic exhibitions which also include works loaned from other collectors, and from galleries and artists. Artists represented in the Good/Horvitz collection are a diverse body of women – and some men – representing many ethnicities and nationalities. Girls’ Club’s facility is a dynamic, multi-functional building created by award-winning designer Margi Nothard of Glavovic Studio in Fort Lauderdale.
Girls’ Club’s mission is to educate the public, nurture the careers of female artists, and to serve as a resource for art students and scholars, curators, and practicing artists. A special commitment is made to expose the work of local artists to a broader national and international audience. Web projects by artists, interviews and texts by writers and a blog extends the presence of Girls’ Club onto the worldwide web.
Girls’ Club is also committed to changing the lives of individuals in Broward County, and our programming reflects the special needs of women and girls. Girls’ Club partners with Young at Art Museum and the Pace Center for Girls, to provide specialized workshops in digital imaging and multi-media.
Re-Framing the Feminine, contemporary photography from the collection of Francie Bishop Good and David Horvitz, curated by Miami gallerist Dina Mitrani, will close permanently September 29, 2012.
