Critical Writing Index

Material Girls

by Wendy Peart, Blair Fornwald and Jennifer Matotek

Regina: Dunlop Art Gallery, 2015

ISBN 978-1-910433-30-0

Catalogue produced in conjunction with the traveling exhibition MATERIAL GIRLS, which "features critical essays by the exhibition's three co-curators, a specially-commissioned artist project by Tricia Middleton, and 76 full-colour photographs" (quote taken from Regina Library's website). Description of the exhibition: "Material Girls is about women taking up space. This large-scale group exhibition brings together Canadian and international emerging, mid-career, and senior female artists from across artistic disciplines and cultural backgrounds. Uniting these works is an exploration of material process and notions of excess as they relate to the feminized body, gendered space, and capitalist desire. Sumptuous, decorative, and visually overwhelming, the exhibition space becomes a horror vacui, a jubilant and visceral counterpoint to the modernist-derived and ideologically-constructed convention of the austere white cube" (quote taken from Dominique Rey's website). The exhibition toured to five institutions between January 2015 and December 2017 including the Dunlop Art Gallery (where the exhibition opened), the Doris McCarthy Gallery at the University of Toronto, Contemporary Calgary and the College Art Galleries at the University of Saskatchewan, and Rodman Hall Art Centre, at Brock University in Saint Catherines, Ontario.

ITEM 2015.069 – available for viewing in the Research Centre

Videos, Artworks and Artists Cited

Tricia Middleton

Morehshin Allahyari

Jaime Angelopoulos

Christi Belcourt

Katherine Boyer

Karin Bubaš

Andrea Carlson

Ying-Yueh Chuang

Alex Cu Unjieng

Raphaëlle de Groot

Abigail DeVille

Soheila Esfahani

Ran Hwang

Sarah Anne Johnson

Felice Koenig

Deirdre Logue

Rachel Ludlow

Jodie Mack

Amy Malbeuf

Sanaz Mazinani

Meryl McMaster

Allyson Mitchell

Dominique Rey

Winnie Truong

Marie Watt