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* I’m interrupting CLITERACY for a special announcement*

Solo exhibition of Truer at Newspace in Portland, OR.

“These photographic prints are raw, honest, thought-provoking and, yes, sexy, no matter what your sexual orientation.” 

– Richard Speer, The Willamette Week

Truer Solo Exhibition by Sophia Wallace
Newspace Center for Photography
On View: March 1-31
1632 SE 10th Ave.
Portland, OR 97214
503.963.1935 | www.newspacephoto.org

Sophia Wallace’s series, Truer, is a love story. For seven months in 2008-2009 Wallace documented her same sex relationship. The resulting body of work functions as art and as evidence. In response to the absence of queer-narratives outside of the context of fictional lesbian subjects of heterosexual, male fantasies Wallace has created Truer, her personal story told in the first person.

Opening Reception: March 1, 6-9pm
Artist Lecture with Sophia Wallace: March 2, 1:00pm 

http://newspacephoto.org/gallery — in Portland, OR.

Posted on Friday, March 1st 2013

Tags Artists on Tumblr Women Artists truer sophia wallace newspace portland portland Oregon gender Contemporary Photography contemporary art representation queer lesbian autobiography Autostraddle art queer visuality disidentification queer theory newspace center for photography curation feminist

Installation detail of CLITERACY, 100 Natural Laws by Sophia Wallace Installation detail of CLITERACY, 100 Natural Laws by Sophia Wallace CLITERACY, 100 Natural Laws in Scenes A Faire at Dumbo Art Center, Brooklyn, NY Sophia Wallace in front of CLITERACY, 100 Natural Laws in her Brooklyn Studio, October 2012.

CLITERACY, 100 Natural Laws © Sophia Wallace 2012. Currently on view at Dumbo Art Center, details below. 

CLITERACY, 100 Natural Laws is mixed media project that explores a paradox;  the global obsession with sexualizing female bodies in a world that is illiterate when it comes to female sexuality. CLITERACY is a new way of talking about citizenship, sexuality, human rights, and bodies. The project reveals the – phallic as neutral – bias in science, law, philosophy, politics, mainstream and even feminist discussion, and the art world - which is so saturated with the female body as subject. Using text as form, CLITERACY explores the construction of female sexual bodies as passive vehicles of reception defined by lack. It confronts a false body of knowledge by scientists who have resisted the idea of a unique, autonomous female body and rather studied what confirmed their assumption that women’s anatomy was the inverse of male anatomy, and that reproduction was worthy of study, while female sexuality was most certainly not. In the last ten years there have been tremendous scientific breakthroughs in the understanding of the clitoris. The clitoris is exponentially larger and more complex than commonly thought. What we think of as the clitoris, is only the tip of the iceberg.  While this discovery is shocking in its late arrival, the problem of global ILLCITERACY is a salient allegory into the bigger problem of a female body, both cis and trans female, constructed by men, with false information, the goal of control and a culture that defines femaleness as inferior and female sexual organs as taboo. CLITERACY builds upon my photographic practice and ongoing exploration of how power shapes knowledge, often through use of the visual, for the purpose of social control. 

CLITERACY is monumental in scope and scale with 100 Natural Laws that span 10 by 13 feet and a 6 foot neon piece suspended from the ceiling.  CLITERACY, 100 Natural Laws was completed during my Van Lier Fellowship in the Art Law Residency. 

CLITERACY 100 Natural Laws Scenes a Faire Art & Law Residency Exhibition
On View: Oct. 5-21 at Dumbo Art Center
POSTPONED!! Artist Talk: Sophia Wallace Oct. 16, 7-8:30pm at Dumbo Art Center 
111 Front Street, Suite 212, Brooklyn, NY 11201
Tel 718-694-0831  Email gallery@dumboartscenter.org
Gallery Hours: 12 - 6pm Wednesday - Saturday, 12 - 5PM Sunday

Info & Press Photos: 
CLITERACY 100 Natural Laws 
Sophia Wallace’s Studio:  studio( )sophiawallace.com 

Posted on Wednesday, October 10th 2012

Tags Art Law Cliteracy Cliteracy 100 Natural Laws Feminism Gender Queer Scenes A Faire Sophia Wallace brooklyn collect art contemporary Art hacking sex the body clitoris lack psychoanalysis philosophy science clit exhibition exhibitions

I just wanted to tell you that i adore your work, its so beautiful and real. Particularly, Girls Will Be Bois, during a time in my life when i didn't understand gender identity i found these pictures and it changed me forever. I felt like i finally belonged and could actually see myself growing up female bodied while still remaining strong, masculine and leading normal lives like the individuals in those photos. So thank you Sophia.

Asked by sweetshortz

Oh my goodness, thank you for sharing that amazing story. I’m grateful that somehow the work found it’s way to you. I made it with the hope that others wouldn’t feel as alone and unseen as I did coming up as a young queer woman in a queer community of working class queers of color, trans men, progressive white queers and allies. The support of people like you and the amazing TUMBLR community is why this work continues on. The photo industry slept on Girls Will be Bois. That makes no difference. We have the internet and can create, share, connect and make a vibrant world of queer visuality beyond their fearful censorship.  

Whenever you are in New York, you have an invitation to come to my studio, see prints and talk about life. Hit me up.

Posted on Monday, October 8th 2012

Tags queer girls will be bois Sophia Wallace art lgbt lgbtq trans trans men art photography lesbians

CLITERACY, 100 Natural Laws by Sophia Wallace, 2012, opening night at Dumbo Art Center, Brooklyn, NY. Detail of CLITERACY, 100 Natural Laws by Sophia Wallace Detail of CLITERACY, 100 Natural Laws by Sophia Wallace Detail of CLITERACY, 100 Natural Laws by Sophia Wallace CLITERACY, 100 Natural Laws by Sophia Wallace, 2012, installation view at Dumbo Art Center, Brooklyn, NY CLITERACY, 100 Natural Laws by Sophia Wallace, 2012, installation detail at Dumbo Art Center, Brooklyn, NY CLITERACY, 100 Natural Laws by Sophia Wallace, 2012, installation view at Dumbo Art Center, Brooklyn, NY Sophia Wallace in front of CLITERACY, 100 Natural Laws in her Brooklyn Studio

Installation views of CLITERACY, 100 Natural Laws by Sophia Wallace  

The comments from all you wonderful people. Keep ‘em coming and feel free to propose your own laws. I’m reading all of them. 

CLITERACY 100 Natural Laws Scenes a Faire Art & Law Residency Exhibition
On View: Oct. 5-21 at Dumbo Art Center
111 Front Street, Suite 212, Brooklyn, NY 11201
Tel 718-694-0831  Email gallery@dumboartscenter.org
Gallery Hours: 12 - 6pm Wednesday - Saturday, 12 - 5PM Sunday 

Info & Press Photos: 

CLITERACY 100 Natural Laws 
Sophia Wallace’s Studio:  studio( )sophiawallace.com

Thank you to all who came to the debut of CLITERACY. It was seriously amazing to see the responses. Crowds around the wall laughing, pointing to laws, calling friends to look, camera phones out, one friend got goosebumps, and another cried. It was really something. Holy f****ng CLIT!

Posted on Friday, October 5th 2012

Tags Cliteracy 100 Natural Laws Dumbo Art Center Sophia Wallace brooklyn cliteracy collect art contemporary art art fine art text typography feminism queer sex sexuality democracy citizenship otherness taboo shame misogyny gender masculinity femininity trans exhibition exhibitions

No fashion, please! – A scream of refusal

Nineteen solo presentations outline the young international photography scene that explores the fundamental relationship between bodies and clothes, the dialectics between the form of the body and its appearance in the second show of the Kunsthalle Wien’s autumn program focusing on photography and fashion. Borders to other disciplines are crossed in both daring and reckless experiments. In the context of the exhibition, clothes and other products of the fashion industry only figure as fragments of a narrative mise-en-scène thematizing the dreams concerned with a changing aesthetic of the body and its ideals. The media strategies employed are manifold and span from staged photographic images, projections, and performances to body sculptures, video and film works.

Participating artists: Chan-Hyo Bae, Tracey Baran, Jeff Bark, Leigh Bowery/Fergus Greer, Steven Cohen/Marianne Greber, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Matthias Herrmann, Lea Golda Holterman, Izima Kaoru, Luigi & Luca, Sandra Mann, Martin & The evil eyes of Nur, Brigitte Niedermair, Erwin Olaf, Alex Prager, Hanna Putz, Viviane Sassen, Sophia Wallace, Bruce Weber

Curator: Peter Weiermair
Exhibition catalogue: No fashion, please! Fotografie zwischen Gender und Lifestyle | Photography between Gender and Lifestyle. Ed. by Kunsthalle Wien, Gerald A. Matt, Peter Weiermair. With texts by Peter Weiermair and Eugenio Viola; c. 160 pages, German and English; Verlag für moderne Kunst, Nürnberg

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Posted on Sunday, November 13th 2011

Tags No Fashion Please KUNSTHALLE wien Contemporary Art Photography Gender Fashion Queer feminist Sophia Wallace

Lecturing at PhotoPlusExpo NYC - Friday, Oct 28 1:30pm

I’m speaking on a panel at Photo Plus Expo tomorrow. The talk is at 1:30pm at the Javitz Center in New York City.

The panel addresses how online publishing affects photography as an industry. I will be speaking about the ways in which the online space presents vital potential for discourses and subjects who are historically and and currently censored in print. I’ll also be sharing tactical tips for getting your work published online. 

Details:

Fri, Oct 28, 2011 - 1:30 PM to 3:30 PMThe New World of Online Magazines + Curator Websites

Speakers:
Julie Grahame, Founder, aCurator.com
Manjari Sharma
Michael Itkoff
Stella Kramer, Moderator
Sophia Wallace

Tumultuous photography industry changes over the past five years, both in publishing and advertising, have reduced many avenues for emerging and even mid-career photographers to gain entry into the business. But as some doors close, others open, specifically with new online, curated Web sites and online photography magazines. These generally open-submission platforms are creating new avenues for photographers to show their work, and to place their images in front of photo editors, art buyers, gallerists, museum curators and others with an interest in photography. Free from the constraints of advertising demands, these online destinations offer photographers a way for their work to be seen as they like, and the chance to be seen by people all over the world. In this seminar you’ll hear from some of the biggest names in this new photography world, including Michael Itkoff, editor and chief of Daylight magazine and others from the world of photography and design. Moderator Stella Kramer, a Pulitzer prize-winning photo editor brings these new stars of the online world together to tell you the essentials of how they choose the photography they feature, what the submission guidelines are, and what increases your chances of being selected. They will also discuss other online sites, and the future of photography through the increasing prominence of these online magazines and curated forums.

Posted on Thursday, October 27th 2011

Tags PhotoPlusExpo speaking minoritarian subjects contemporary art discourse feminism queer lecture Sophia Wallace publishing web2.0 popart

2 Days Left to Vote Thank you for the lovely post genderqueer and Everyone who Voted. You made my day! Portrait from Sophia Wallace’s series “On Beauty”. According to the project description, Wallace “…was curious to see what the result would be if [she] photographed men using the unspoken rules that dictate the way women are conventionally posed in photographs and paintings.” You can vote for Sophia Wallace’s work at the ArtTakesLondon competition (no registration of any kind is necessary). *You can vote every 24 hours. [Image description: photo of a light-skinned, short haired young man, taken from slightly above, showing his head and upper torso. He is wearing only a black, see-through sweater which merges against the black backdrop. He is gazing towards one side. He holds his arms against his body; one hand is placed on his stomach and the other on his neck, holding the sweater against his body, although part of his shoulders and chest are bared.]

2 Days Left to Vote

Thank you for the lovely post genderqueer and Everyone who Voted. You made my day!


Portrait from Sophia Wallace’s series “On Beauty”.

According to the project description, Wallace “…was curious to see what the result would be if [she] photographed men using the unspoken rules that dictate the way women are conventionally posed in photographs and paintings.”

You can vote for Sophia Wallace’s work at the ArtTakesLondon competition (no registration of any kind is necessary). *You can vote every 24 hours.

[Image description: photo of a light-skinned, short haired young man, taken from slightly above, showing his head and upper torso. He is wearing only a black, see-through sweater which merges against the black backdrop. He is gazing towards one side. He holds his arms against his body; one hand is placed on his stomach and the other on his neck, holding the sweater against his body, although part of his shoulders and chest are bared.]

Posted on Sunday, June 5th 2011

Tags Sophia Wallace, Art Takes London, On Beauty Gender Queer LGBTQ genderqueer http://genderqueer.tumblr.com

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