Opening Reception for Cosmic She-ness
Saturday, March 12, 2011, from 7pm – 10pm
Edge Zones Art Center
47 NE 25th Street, Miami, Florida.
Edge Zones // Project Space Presents Cosmic She-ness, a Selection of Work from New York Based Artist Diana McClure
Edge Zones Art Center will present Cosmic She-ness, an exhibition by New York based artist Diana McClure, in the Project Space from March 12th – April 1st, 2011. The exhibition features selections from McClure’s recent body of work, Changing Woman (I’m Every Woman), which references both indigenous folklore in the form of the Changing Woman story of the Navajo, and the classic disco/R&B hit “I’m Every Woman” by Chaka Khan. Goddesses in this work are understood to act as representatives of the focus of the human mind, while icons allow a shorthand method of talking about ability, power and agency.
Engaging with the interconnectedness of concepts of Ashé, Shakti, Ch’i, The Holy Ghost, energy (sexual energy), Prana, essentially life force energy, the work explores the relationship between spiritual agency and the liberation of thought embodied in concepts of female divinity from around the world.
Using photography, small mixed media objects, and the re-contextualization of images and text as tools of construction, Cosmic She-ness continues to explore McClure’s fascination with taking the perceptual to immaterial levels.
Ms. McClure is an interdisciplinary artist who works in photography, mixed media, writing and web based projects. In 2009 she was a member of the Curatorial Committee for photoMiami, the international contemporary art fair for photo-based art, video & new media, and wrote the Living Arts column for the NewYorkTimes.com/LOCAL as part of a New York Times experimental project on hyperlocal and collaborative journalism. Diana has also written for Art Asia Pacific and The Studio Museum in Harlem magazine among others. She has received grants/fellowships from The New School for Social Research, The Mellon Foundation, and CUNY School of Journalism, although she was unable to attend.
Her photographic work has appeared in The Philadelphia African American Museum, The Los Angeles Times, Judy Chicago’s Envisioning the Future project, NYMAG.com, and in galleries across the United States. From 2007-2009 she founded and curated Cultureserve.net, a global art + culture news website that was a 2008 Finalist for a Creative Capital l Warhol Foundation – Arts Writers Grant. Diana holds a BA from Columbia University, an MA from The New School, and lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.
