“The Corporate Coup,” Drawing in a Time of Fear & Lies, Hyperallergic, December 9, 2017
No Vacation: 'Resort' is a voyage of ‘empathic unsettlement’
RESORT, a two person show by Andrew Ellis Johnson and Susanne Slavick at The Fed Galleries at Kendall College of Art and Design in Grand Rapids, Michigan, previewed in this REVUE article by Marla Miller.
STARLESS MIDNIGHT at BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art →
GENDER TALLY, a collaborative project organized by Micol Hebron, is included in STARLESS MIDNIGHT, a group show at Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art in Gateshead UK.
Co-curated by Edgar Arcenaux.
20 October 2017 – 21 January 2018
My contribution to Gender Tally was an image for Ortega y Gasset Projects.
UNLOADED at Harris Gallery, University of La Verne
UNLOADED, a traveling group show that explores historical and social issues surrounding the availability, use, and impact of guns in our culture. Curated by Susanne Slavick
September 5 - October 26, 2017
Curator's Lecture: September 14, 2017
Reception: Thursday, September 14, 7PM, Harris Gallery
UNLOADED at MCAD, June 9 - July 16, 2017
http://mcad.edu/event/unloaded
Unloaded is a nationally traveling multimedia group exhibition that explores the historic and social issues surrounding the divisive nature of gun ownership in the United States.
Curated by Susanne Slavick, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Art at Carnegie Mellon University, the exhibition presents a number of perspectives on the image and impact of guns in contemporary culture, though none endorse them as a means to an end. Works by twenty-two artists and collaboratives touch upon a host of issues surrounding access to and use of firearms across a range of demographic categories.
The artists in Unloaded visualize the power of the gun as icon and instrument. They explore the role that firearms continue to play in our national mythologies, influencing suicide rates, individual and mass murder statistics, incidents of domestic violence, and the militarization of civilian life. Some show the power that guns wield in our daily realities and personal fantasies. Others mourn and resist that power, doing everything they can to take it away, believing there are better ways to resolve conflicts, ensure safety, and keep the peace.