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Foundation  \nhttps://archive.org/details/maryweatherford0000unse  \n# DISCARD\n\nEASTERMARY WEATHERFORD  \n# CHOIRE SICHAINTRODUCTION\n\nOn the subject at hand,Easter,a phenomenal body of new work by MaryWeatherford which attacks(or entertains?)an enormous array of topics,I will saylittle,besides:What a pleasure it is to be able to present an exhibition which sothoroughly yet so softly speaks for itself,and what a joy it is to work with an artistwho is herself so thoughtful and thought-provoking,and whose work is so complex,beautiful,and astute.  \nKnown best for his surprising and beautiful novels,Dale Peck is also anaccomplished critic.In both these fields,his work revolves much aroundcomplicated narratives,ideas on the relations of fiction and autobiography,and theplacement of modern “identity”issues within the context of historical works andideas.  \nIt was Mr.Peck's intimate understanding of the subtleties of the range ofconceptual and pragmatic art-making,and of narrative in particular,that compelledus to approach him for an essay on this body of work.It is a delight to be able topresent this essay on the topic of Easter.  \nEASTERDALE PECK  \nWhile the art stars of the eighties were busy with their ironicrefashionings of popular culture,Mary Weatherford was consumingtwentieth-century art with a voracious sexual appetite.She began hercareer in a ménage with Abstract Expressionist and Pop figures:if hertarget paintings castrated near-identical images by Jasper Johns andKenneth Noland,transgendering a phallic process into a female product,then her silkscreens of thorny stems were equally deliberate phallicizationsof Andy Warhol's soft open flowers.The driving force behind Weatherford'searly work was a need to regender various modes of expression whichpurported to be genderless and universal—or,to put it more bluntly,toplace in a female mouth words which had formerly belonged to men.Thestruggle wasn't easy,and in some ways the solution seemed to abnegatethe very femaleness it sought to celebrate;this is,in effect,the source ofthe poignancy in much of the work.There is nothing that can definitively becalled “female”about any of those early paintings save their titles:Violetta,Camille,Cho Cho San,the borrowed names of heroines who are not merelydead,but in some fundamental way missing.Those names functioned as akind of enveloping exegetical context,offering a female hermeneutics in  \nHer Insomnia1991,flashe and silkscreen on canvas,72 by 120 inchesCollection:The Museum of Contemporary Art San DiegoGift of Carol Dorsky  \nOdette/Odile  \n1991,oil on canvas,60 by 60 inchesCollection:Mr.and Mrs.Steven and Diane Jacobson,New York City  \nlieu of an actual female body.The words declared war even as the paintingsbecame paeans to battles already lost,though whether those losses werein the past or the future was never made clear.Uncertainty is a closerelative of hope,and if such kinship seems cold comfort,it's whatWeatherford could honestly offer.  \nI called Weatherford's appropriations sexual;they were also cool,almost clinically so.Sexual,but,to push the metaphor a little further,notorgasmic.It's as if Weatherford feared her paintings ran the danger of beingconsumed by their own appetites,and so the early work has a hardness toit that is less flaw than declaration:in contrast to the ubiquitous irony of ourtime,Weatherford painted completely in earnest.Easter continues thatearnestness,and also the appropriation,but now the work is lessdependent on ts sources,and a newfound sense of freedom—perhapsrelease is a better word—affords the show a wider spectrum of emotionalexpression than is seen in the earlier work.Though a range of influences isat work here,some immediately apparent,some less so,they inhabit thepaintings without inhibiting them.The techniques and images of pastmasters aren't simply utilized,referenced,or co-opted,but,as ","cbCain1nIaIDYOEP","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCain1nIaIDYOEP","pdf",1735845,36,"English","# 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