The Weston’s street-level exhibition space will feature a dazzling Mylar curtain backdrop and suspended disco ball and accent stage lighting that also serve as the site for Rebel Revel, “an alt-drag-queer-burlesque-pop-punk-fashion-performance-gothic-cabaret-metal-disco-festival on Saturday, June 8.
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In addition, Rampleman will premiere a new series of work, Life is Drag, in which she documents her collaborations with the most singular and innovative emerging artists of the flourishing Brooklyn alt-drag scene. The exhibition stretches across both levels of the Weston starting with the creation of a “lowbrow meets highbrow” “divey”/DIY-inspired performance space installation in the atrium gallery including spectacular but low-budget Mylar curtains to set the mood for the aestheticized performances of identity portrayed in her video sculptures and displays screened across multiple electronic platforms including CRT monitors, tablets, and flat screen TVs seen in the lower-level.Ī sampling of subjects, muses, and collaborators represented in the survey includes Girls Girls Girls (the world's first and only all-female Mötley Crüe tribute band), Tazzie Colomb (the world's longest competing female bodybuilder/powerlifter), and LACTIC Incorporated (an avant-garde clothing brand that takes the detritus of corporate life and reinterprets it into one-of-a-kind structural garments that challenge the polarization of gender and critique existing power structures). Oh! You Pretty Things features a kaleidoscopic array of many of the artist’s single- and multi-channel video installations from her extensive creative catalogue along with brand new works from the Life is Drag series out of New York City in an unforgettable immersive gallery experience.īest known for bodies of work exploring subjects such as gender, artifice, and spectacle, Rampleman showcases exuberantly bold and irrepressible personalities who revel in challenging common clichés associated with masculinity and femininity. Weston Art Gallery in the Aronoff Center for the Arts premieres Oh! You Pretty Things, celebrating almost twenty years of the incomparable documentary and experimental video work by Cincinnati native and Brooklyn-based multimedia artist Rachel Rampleman. CINCINNATI, OH-On Friday, April 19, from 6 to 8 p.m., the Cincinnati Arts Association’s Alice F.
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