Exhibition

No So Pink

2 Mar 2020 – 7 Mar 2020

Regular hours

Mon, 02 Mar
17:00 – 19:00
Tue, 03 Mar
11:00 – 17:00
Wed, 04 Mar
11:00 – 17:00
Thu, 05 Mar
11:00 – 17:00
Fri, 06 Mar
11:00 – 17:00

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Tessa Krieg’s “Not So Pink” explores how the world of patriarchal, male-dominated power structures is not so ‘rosy.’ The show features paintings, drawings, prints, animations and writings to create imagery and language around things that stick in Tessa Krieg's brain; from taboos to zeitgeists.

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Steuben Gallery, Pratt Institute

Exhibition Monday March 2nd - Friday March 7th, 10am - 5pm

Opening Monday March 2nd 5-9pm

 

I make my art is for the sake of running risks, as opposed to “merely moderating social progress by using aesthetic devices” as Siegfried Zielinski writes in “Deep Time of the Media.” 
 

Not So Pink is part of my ongoing research in society’s impact on my surroundings. My art practice consists of researching or observing something I find confusing or intriguing, often centering around the body’s experience of limitation and liberation: from flight, fight or freeze, to unequitable power structures.

 

The show employs paintings, drawings, prints, animations and writings to create imagery and language around things that stick in my brain; from taboos to zeitgeists.

 

“Mise-en-scène” alludes to the shape of theater curtains that frame the stage; the curtain-like legs of the man, cascade down each side of the scene as it is set by biting winds and snowy peaks. The piece represents how the world is framed by the patriarchy: at times so imposing, but also anxious and naked as it is probing the depths of an inhospitable world.

 

“Baby,” featuring dogs in strollers and cats in bags, reflects upon anthropomorphic trends where pets play the role of babies in the gender-revealing colors of the travel accessories.

 

The exhibition includes a short animation entitled “Government Appointed Phalluses of Tinder '' that captures three United States military members' pictures as they recite their biographies and pose in their hyper-masculin stances, alongside prints of US military toys from the dollar store. This work explores the glorification and sexualization of constructs of power like the military.

 

Not So Pink shows how the world of patriarchal, male-dominated power structures and fads is not so ‘rosy.’  The show, which is opening on Monday March 2nd from 5-10pm at the Steuben Gallery on the Pratt Brooklyn campus, runs through Friday March 7th, from 10am to 5pm.

My name is Tessa Krieg. I’m an artist, researcher, and curator. My practice is, but not limited to, painting, writing, animation, drawing, photography, printing and performance arts. I am in my last year studying Painting and Cultural Studies at Pratt Institute. My passion is taking a visceral hold on culture. I work at the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts as a curatorial intern and as a painting assistant for Jocelyn Hobbie. I like humor so I incorporate it into everything I do, no matter how serious the subject.

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