Smith-Stewart
53 Stanton St
212.477.2821
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Kate Gilmore, Baby, Belong to Me, Courtesy Amy Smith-Stewart
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Opens Friday Nov 21, 2008 (7–9pm)
Nov 21, 2008 – Jan 18, 2009
Wednesdays–Sundays (noon–6pm)
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Whether they appear foolhardy or feminist, Kate Gilmore's masochistic video performances transfix with the same fear/fascination ratio as a ten-car pileup. For her new exhibition at the Smith-Stewart Gallery, Gilmore debuts a participatory, site-specific sculpture and video, as well as three physically punishing shorts from the calendar year. Shot in one unrehearsed take, the color-schemed performances continue Gilmore's attempt to deconstruct the damsel-in-distress label for women by literally smashing barriers, whether it's the five layers of dry wall and plywood in front of a canary yellow (and heel-matching) wall or the tall plaster-block pile that acts as Gilmore's temporary pedestal, before two muscleheads batter it down with twin mallets.
