Soft Network ∞ Rachel Comey, Rachel Comey, New York, 2021

The transformative work of feminist artists operating in Soho and the East End and the various methods of processing through image, form and text as realized by these and the larger group of participating artists frames this sprawling, visual poem on mediation and remediation.

For the Rachel Comey Soho location, opening on June 10th, photographs, jewelry, books, prints, videos and sculpture will be featured within Comey’s most recent collection. Artists include: Ketuta Alexi-Meskhishvili, Mónica Félix, Lilah Friedland, Tamar Siegfried Rosa Halpern, Anya Kielar, Miranda Lichtenstein, Judy Noe, Julie Pochron, Gwen Smith, Anita Steckel, Sara VanDerBeek and Yelena Yemchuk. Ephemera and Posters by Joyce Kozloff and Joan Semmel as well the estate of Anita Steckel will also be presented. New Soft Network Editions with Gwen Smith Black Woman Project, Joyce Kozloff and Joan Semmel as well as others will be launched at the event.

Two short films will be screened at the event: Martha Edelheit’s 1977 film, Hats, Bottles, and Bones: A Portrait of Sari Dienes (22 minutes) and Carolee Schneemann’s 1995 film Interior Scroll – The Cave 1975-1995 (7:31 min.)

Following the film there will be a brief discussion. Participants include Rachel Churner, Director, Carolee Schneemann Foundation; Martha Edelheit, Artist; Lilah Friedland, Artist; and Barbara Pollitt, Curator, Sari Dienes Foundation.

Mónica Félix

Romance Tropical (RGB)

UV printed photograph on Plexiglas

Edition of 3

Tamar Siegfried Rosa Halpern

Living By Fiction (Side B)

UV ink on Plexiglas with wood frame

Tamar Siegfried Rosa Halpern

MOODY BITCHES. I PEE ON YOU!! WAS OUT ON A WALK IN THE CATSKILLS

SUMMER 2020 / MEMORIES OF INJUSTICES CAME TO MIND/ INJUSTICES

EXPERIENCED IN MY PAST DUE TO POSSESSING A CUNT. THERE ARE TIMES TO

LET LOOSE ALL THE FIRE POWER ONE HAS. MY WHOLE LIFE I HAVE BEEN

MISGENDERED.. THOUGHT IT MEANT I WAS UNATTRACTIVE. BUILT PART OF MY

IDENTITY ON IT AND FOUND FREEDOM. AT SOME POINT I REALIZED THE OUTSIDE

WAS MIRRORING THE INSIDE. GENDER SLIPPAGE., 2021

Stained Plexiglas, light, atmosphere, transformation, magic, leap of faith, pee, wood, grass, accidents of creation, UV pigment, maple wood, metal screws, anger, frustration

Tamar Siegfried Rosa Halpern

VIVIENNE. VOICES AND SILENCE. WORK BEGAN AS A PHOTOGRAPH OF MY

BEAUTIFUL PANTS, DESIGNED BY VIVIENNE WESTWOOD. BEEN THINKING ABOUT

VOICES AND SILENCE, WORDS BRING US TOGETHER, SILENCE SEPARATES US.

THOUGHT A POTENTIAL TITLE COULD BE VIVIENNE., 2020

Armor, performance, light, high heels, time, wind, UV ink on Plexiglas, discipline, open space left for dialogue, and unintentionality, persistence with wooden Frame

Anya Kielar

Gem Cuff, 2021

Metal base, repurposed beads, paper clay, copper leaf

$Miranda Lichtenstein, Danse Serpentine (doubled and refracted), 2010$

Miranda Lichtenstein

Danse Serpentine (doubled and refracted), 2010

HD video loop, silent

Julie Pochron

Felt in the Moment, 2020

C-print

Edition of 5 plus II AP

Gwen Smith

Toni Morrison, 2019

Archival pigment print on 100% Cotton rag Canson paper. Painting No. 46 From The Black Woman Project (Vol. 1). Includes 4 x 6 inches archival print from April 14th, 2019. Signed.

Edition of 10 plus II AP

Gwen Smith

Maya Angelou, 2019

Archival pigment print on 100% Cotton rag Canson paper. Painting No. 22 From The Black Woman Project (Vol. 1). Includes 4 x 6 inches archival print from April 6th, 2020. Signed.

Edition of 10 plus II AP