Margaret Adachi
Marcus Adams
Daniel Aksten
Joe Amrhein
Deborah Aschheim
Michael Brewster
Maura Bendett
Joe Biel
Marcia Binnendyk
Dianna Cohen
Laurel Beckman
Christa Donner
Martin Durazo
Marcy Freedman
Samantha Fields
Robbert Flick
Jon Gintzler
Debbie Haun
Carmine Iannaccone
Seth Kaufman
Anders Lansing
Julia Latane'
Charles Linder
Megan McManus
Leland Means
Michael Barton Miller
Roberto Molla
Susan Rankaitis
Roland Reiss
Rebecca Riess
Corey Stein
Jay-Gould Stuckey
Osvaldo Trujillo
20/9/2002
Hello Kitty Gets a Mouth
Post, Los Angeles
A one person exhibition by Jaime Scholnick. This is her second solo exhibition at POST. The installation will include a screening of the film and mural-sized chalk drawings on the gallery walls. Relative Objects is a group show of objects by artists that also have work in the Post flat files.
A one person exhibition by Jaime Scholnick
Relative Objects, a group exhibit
DJ Crassus and Crixus will spin at the opening
Hello Kitty Gets a Mouth by Jaime Scholnick. This is her second solo exhibition at POST. The installation will include a screening of the film and mural-sized chalk
drawings on the gallery walls.
After years of silence, Hello Kitty now joins the historic list of others of the same gender in acquiring a voice.The short film depicts the frustration Hello Kitty encounters
upon realizing her inability to utter a sound. Appropriately frustrated by her discovery, Hello Kitty promptly takes action and finds herself in the perfect place for
reconstructive surgery, Los Angeles. Upon encountering Japanese culture, Scholnick found Hello Kitty to perfectly exemplify her frustrations as a woman while teaching
English in the city of Yamagata.
Shocked by her older female students proudly displaying the mute kitty on anything and everything imaginable, Scholnick began to explore the Japanese word for cute,
kawaii.The incessant striving by her women students to eternally remain cute along with the rampant display of a figure with no means of conveying struck Scholnick as
frightening. Exploring the similar sounding Japanese words kawaii and kowai (cute and frightened), Scholnick finds the duality of the similar sounding words to express the
frightening void accompanying a silent female. In order to counteract the void, her mural-sized drawings at POST arm Hello Kitty with assault weapons to instill an
expression of power to be feared. In the past Scholnick has used Hello Kitty merchandise, marketing giveaways such as tissue packs, coat hangers and other
reinterpreted mass produced items to find beauty in the everyday, and to talk about how we are living now.Unfortunately, expression does not come as easily to all women
as she would wish.For Scholnick, the inundation of Hello Kitty merchandise in both Japan and the U.S. references a global culture where women remain at risk.
Relative Objects is a group show of objects by artists that also have work in the POST flat files. Margaret Adachi, Marcus Adams, Daniel Aksten,Joe Amrhein, Deborah
Aschheim, Michael Brewster, Maura Bendett, Joe Biel, Marcia Binnendyk,Dianna Cohen, Laurel Beckman, Christa Donner, Martin Durazo, Marcy Freedman, Samantha
Fields, Robbert Flick, Jon Gintzler, Debbie Haun, Carmine Iannaccone, Seth Kaufman, Anders Lansing, Julia Latané, Charles Linder, Megan McManus, Leland Means,
Michael Barton Miller, Roberto Molla, Susan Rankaitis, Roland Reiss, Rebecca Riess, Corey Stein, Jay-Gould Stuckey, Osvaldo Trujillo and others.
Reception: Saturday, September 21, 7:00 - 10:00 PM
DJ Crassus and Crixus, DJ Crassus and Crixus will spin at POST, on Saturday, September 21, 2002, 7-10PM.
Regular Hours: Thursday - Saturday, 12:00 noon - 6:00 PM
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Los Angeles, California 90021
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