Dorothy Cross
dal 30/5/2002 al 29/6/2002
Segnalato da
30/5/2002
Dorothy Cross
Kerlin Gallery, Dublin
Cross works in a variety of media including sculpture, photography, video and installation. She has been exhibiting regularly since the mid-80s and her witty and inventive investigations of contemporary sexual mores and politics tend to be produced in series.
Cross works in a variety of media including sculpture,
photography, video and installation. She has been
exhibiting regularly since the mid-80s and her witty
and inventive investigations of contemporary sexual
mores and politics tend to be produced in series. Her
first major solo shows were 'Ebb', at the Douglas
Hyde Gallery, Dublin, in 1988, and 'Powerhouse' at
the ICA, Philadelphia, the Hyde Gallery and Camden
Arts Centre, London, in 1991. During the 90's she
produced two extended series of sculptural works,
using cured cowhide and stuffed snakes respectively,
which drew on these animals' rich store of symbolic
associations across cultures to investigate the
construction of sexuality and subjectivity.
Over the
past few years Cross has devoted increasing
amounts of time to the development of large-scale
public events and projects, most memorably the
award-winning 'Ghost Ship', an ethereally illuminated
light-ship which haunted Dublin Bay for a few weeks
in 1998.
Cross has participated in numerous group
shows internationally including the 1993 Venice
Biennial, the 1997 Istanbul Biennial and the 1998
Liverpool Biennial. She also took part in the
ground-breaking 1994 exhibition 'Bad Girls' in the
ICA London and CCA, Glasgow; the 1998 exhibition
'Mirror Images: Women, Surrealism and Self
Representation', which was shown at MIT List Art
Center, Boston, Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami
and the San Francisco MOMA; 'Skin' (with Ernesto
Neto and Yoel Davids) at the Cranbrook Museum,
Michigan, USA. Recent solo shows have included
Angles Gallery, Los Angeles (1997), Kerlin Gallery,
Dublin (1999), Mimara Museum, Zagreb (2000) and
Frith Street Gallery, London (2001). Her work is
included in the collections of the Irish Museum of
Modern Art, the Norton Collection, Santa Monica, the
Goldman Sachs Collection, London and the Tate
Modern, London, among others.
The Kerlin Gallery is one of Ireland's leading art galleries with a programme of national and international contemporary art
Kerlin Gallery, Anne's Lane, South Anne Street, Dublin 2
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