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LESBIAN ART SHOW
Azsa West & Mary McAllister
June 4-27, 2009
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Fontanelle Gallery presents Lesbian Art Show, a Dada-inspired exhibition that explores lesbian culture and features mixed media collage, drawings, sculpture, and installation, by Azsa West and Mary McAllister.
Azsa West and Mary McAllister cohabitate in majestic Portland, Oregon where they met and fell in love. They belong to a group of talented young comrades who inspire each other through conversation, ambition, and creativity. Their activities are infused with the desire to strive towards a unique and personal definition of being lesbian. West and McAllister are interested in documenting this ethos, from studying its roots as represented in historical literature and photography, to producing and participating in contemporary queer culture.
Lesbian Art Show represents the timeless and chaotic style of Dada, the intimacies of Left Bank lesbians in the 1920s, and the revolutionary spirit of queer ephemera combined with personal experiences from a recent European adventure, lesbian lifestyles, strange habits, the need for order and documentation, large type, and perhaps most importantly, true love. The works on view often utilize textual diagrams to illustrate ideas. Through graphs, maps, exquisite corpse, and Venn diagrams, they deliver their observations and revelations. In addition, there will be an installation constructed collaboratively with Aubree Bernier-Clarke, and finessed with respect for historical representation and compassion for community.
Azsa West attended California College of the Arts and the Pasadena Art Center where she studied art direction, photography and book arts. She is currently an art director at Wieden+Kennedy in Portland and recently had several drawings featured in Girls Like Us Magazine published out of Amsterdam. Mary McAllister studied photography and printmaking at Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts. She is one of the co-founders and dj’s of Gaycation, a popular monthly dance party in Portland.
TO PURCHASE ARTWORK PLEASE VISIT THE
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Azsa West
Teenage Deviations in An Ideal World, 2009
21 x 27 1/2
Collage, Ink & Watercolor on paper
$250 |
Azsa West
A Map Portraying Lesbian Sex & Sexuality, 2009
19 x 26"
Watercolor on old paper
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Azsa West
Lesbian Or German, 2009
17 1/2 x 23 1/2"
Colored pencil on paper
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Mary McAllister
My Boys, 2009
17 1/2 x 22 1/2"
Pencil on paper
$225 |
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Azsa West
What Happened Exactly My Freshmn Year Of Highschool, 2009
18 1/2 x 26"
Collage, Ink & Watercolor on paper
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Azsa West
Lesbian Union, 2009
22 1/2 x 29 1/2"
Japanese ink on old paper
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Azsa West
SamRon & Lindsay Forever, 2009
22 x 16"
Watercolor on paper
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Mary McAllister & Azsa West
How Do You Want Your Haircut Today, 2009
29 1/2 x 22"
Ink & Pen on paper |
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Azsa West
Butch On Butch Action, 2009
11 1/2 x 8 1/2"
Collage
$80 |
Azsa West
Lesbian Art Show, 2009
39 1/2 x 27"
Collage
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Azsa West
Teresa: Lesbian Ruler Of Sweden, 2009
11 1/2 x 8 1/2"
Watercolor & Collage on paper
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Azsa West
A Catalog Of Required Objects, 2009
29 1/2 x 22 1/2"
Collage & & Black ink on paper
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Azsa West
Almost Two Years, 2009
29 1/2 x 22"
Watercolor & Pencil on paper
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Azsa West
Progress, 2009
29 1/2 x 22 1/2"
Collage
$300 |
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Azsa West
Failing In Paris Pt. 1, 2009
11 1/2 x 8 1/2"
Collage
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Azsa West
Failing In Paris Pt. 2, 2009
11 1/2 x 8 1/2"
Collage
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Azsa West
Safe. Here, 2009
11 1/2 x 8 1/2"
Ink on paper
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Azsa West
Ode To Lesbain Bed Death, 2009
12 x 8 1/2"
Watercolor on paper
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Azsa West
Boo, 2009
29 1/2 x 22 1/2"
Watercolor on paper
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Azsa West
Lady Dada, 2009
11 1/2 x 8 1/2"
Collage
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Azsa West
Stuff We Care About, 2009
11 1/2 x 8 1/2"
Collage
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Azsa West
One (Moon), 2009
11 1/2 x 8 1/2"
Ink on paper
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Azsa West
A Map Mostly About Opinions, 2009
22 x 28 1/2"
Watercolor on old paper
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Mary McAllister
Study Hall Daydreams, 2009
15 x 19"
Paint & Stickers on board
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Azsa West
In An Ideal World Pt. 2, 2009
8 x 31"
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Azsa West
In An Ideal World Pt. 1, 2009
8 x 31"
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Azsa West & Mary McAllister
Box Exhibit B |
Aubree Bernier-Clarke & Mary McAllister
The Well Of Loneliness, 2009
+MORE ABOUT THE WELL OF LONELINESS |
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Azsa West & Mary McAllister
Box Exhibit B |
Aubree Bernier-Clarke & Mary McAllister
The Well Of Loneliness, 2009 |
Aubree Bernier-Clarke & Mary McAllister
The Well Of Loneliness, 2009 |
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Azsa West & Mary McAllister
Box Exhibit C |
Lesbian Art Show, June 2009
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