Lori Newdick | Revisiting a Heroine: A Retrospective
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Lori Newdick, The Unfortunate Flesh, 1999 -
Lori Newdick, The Scorpion, 1999
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Lori Newdick, We Walk Alone, 1999
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Lori Newdick, Queer Affair, 1999
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Lori Newdick, Strange Thirsts, 1999
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Lori Newdick, Women's Barracks, 1999
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Lori Newdick, Twilight Women, 1999
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Lori Newdick, One Kind of Woman, 1999
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Lori Newdick, Felonious #3, 2000
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Lori Newdick, Spinning Sorrell & Chanel #3, 2001
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Lori Newdick, untitled, exit, 2004-2005
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Lori Newdick, Bully, 2001
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Lori Newdick, Super Suspending Rogue, 2001
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Lori Newdick, The Stimulator, 2001
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Lori Newdick, Tiny Miss Crazy Crawler, 2001
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Lori Newdick, Lady Lipstick, 2001
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Lori Newdick, Untitled, from Moving Parts Series, 1998
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Lori Newdick, Untitled, 1998
Corkin Gallery presents a retrospective of the work of artist Lori Newdick. Her work explores queer identities in visual culture.
The exhibition includes works from the series: Heroine, 1999; Felonious, 2000; Lure, 2001; Lucky, 2004-2005.
Heroine explores the struggle of inhabiting an identity not represented in mainstream culture. Newdick examines how predominant, gendered stereotypes operate to marginalize those living outside normative modes of gender and sexuality. The work consists of three photographs that the artist made, printed as one colour print, pre-digital. On the right is a self-portrait, in the middle a pictograph from a men’s fashion magazine, and on the left a photograph of the cover of a collectable pulp fiction magazine.
Felonious focuses on the act of representation, gesture as subject, and the photograph as truth. Newdick questions the veracity of photographs by making it clear that images - still or moving - are not necessarily true representations of the subject.
Lure consists of a series of glossy colour-saturated photographs, each showing a fishing lure floating in front of a pale blue colour field. The names that have been assigned to them by the manufacturer highlight the absurdity of the commodified investment in inanimate objects through a pointed examination of their anthropomorphic qualities.
Lucky charts what felt like new terrain to Newdick - one she still can't find a place for, or a succinct rationalization. Influenced by the visual language of fashion photography, the photographs in this series are intended to be beautiful and seductive. The subject is captured in motion, seamlessly morphing into object.
