![]() The overall effect of these works together is a dissection and expansion of the notion of motherhood through a mash-up of views that are by turns utopian, conceptual, theatrical, and ambiguous. ![]() Tracey Baran, "Daren Meets His Birth Family For The First Time," 2003, Vintage Type C print, 30 x 40 inches, Copyright Tracey Baran, courtesy Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York Then there are Justine Kurland’s circa 2006 photographs of nude, pregnant women in idyllic landscapes, including one of herself and her son Mary Kelly’s black and white video Antepartum (1973), a single close-up shot of the artist caressing her own abdomen at the full-term stage of her pregnancy Tierney Gearon’s absurdist portrait of her elderly mother laughing as she walks away from a desolate gas station with a lit cigarette ( Untitled ) and Malerie Marder’s Untitled (Mother in Yellow Sweater with Peter) (2000), a photograph of the artist’s then-boyfriend, the actor Peter Sarsgaard, standing nude as he peers out through the transparent glass of a shower door at Marder’s own mother, who sits atop the nearby sink. Several of Simmons’s aforementioned Cibachromes are also included. Pieces from a more recent series by Nakadate are shown: eerie night scene photographs of distant relatives she’d never met before shooting them. ![]() ![]() While Nakadate has moved on from that body of work, her interest in staged intimacy and tragicomic imagery continues, as is evident in the display here of photography and video work by three generations of female artists, most of whom are mothers. Laurel Nakadate, From the Relations Series: Leander, Texas #1, 2014, Type C print, 30 x 45 inchesĬopyright Laurel Nakadate, courtesy Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York ![]()
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