VENUS RISING --by Gwen Shockey
June 7, 2019 – June 30, 2019
Opening Reception June 7, 6 – 10PM
In time for World Pride and the 50th Anniversary of the Stonewall Rebellion (marking the beginning of the Gay Rights Movement in 1969), Venus Rising celebrates queer and lesbian pleasure and self-actualization through an installation featuring hand-drilled and rubbed woodblock prints, a suspended disco ball lamp, sound and ritual performance.
Gwen Shockey was born in New Brunswick, New Jersey in 1988. Her work has been exhibited in venues including the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington D.C. and the Leslie-Lohman Museum in New York where her work is also a part of their permanent collection. She received her MFA from Pratt Institute in 2017 and was a recipient of the 2018-2019 Leslie-Lohman Museum Queer Fellowship. She currently lives in Brooklyn, NY and works at Pratt Institute.In conjunction with Venus Rising: