teri frame’s “beauty marks” at urban culture project space april 17-may 7
CSF’s Urban Culture Project presents a solo exhibition by Kansas City based artist Teri Frame, opening at Project Space, 21 East 12 Street, on Third Friday, April 17, 6-9pm, and running through May 7. The opening will include a live performance by the artist at 7:30 pm, which will be videotaped and exhibited in the gallery for the duration of the exhibition. Frame will present a public lecture about her work and influences at Project Space on Thursday May 7, 6pm.
Frame will present work from two recent and ongoing series, which center on the human body and explore mnemismus, the notion that ancestral memory is stored within the body, and can be retrieved psychosomatically. In her Beauty Marks series, Frame arranges images of invasive birthmarks into recurring patterns. By applying rules of proportion, symmetry and pattern to dermal “imperfections,” the artist examines the Western body politic and probes the sublime space between the beautiful and the grotesque. Frame’s performance and related/resulting sculptural objects stem from another series, in which the artist employs raw clay masks and “prosthetics” as a means for altering her body.
Read the full press release. Read Kansas City Star review. View photos of this exhibition.
