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DESCRIPTION:Mixed media works by Jenny Kahn are featured in this solo exhibition. Many 
 are collaged oil paintings---narratives that include painted figures 
 densely layered with pop culture imagery pulled from vintage comic books, 
 movie stills, and photographs, intertwined with elaborately drawn lines and 
 repeated printed forms that create textural patterns. \n\nKahn's Zeus and 
 Ganymede (remix), depicts the god Zeus who, having fallen in love with the 
 young and handsome Ganymede, transforms himself into an eagle and carries 
 Ganymede back to Mount Olympus to be his lover. A symbol of homoeroticism, 
 Ganymede has been referenced by writers and artists from Shakespeare in As 
 You Like It (1599), to Robert Rauschenberg in his combine painting, Canyon 
 (1959). In Kahn's painting, she includes snippets of comics that reveal the 
 sexual ambiguity of superheroes. In a speech bubble, a cartoon cat is 
 saying: "What uncanny power...is forcing me to drop down on all fours...I'm 
 being turned into a...MEOWWW!---Cat Woman answers "Yes, I really am the Cat 
 Woman. This magic wand transformed you into a super cat which must obey my 
 every command!" Here Kahn slyly references catamites---the ancient roman 
 term for the objects of homosexual desire. \n\nKahn's work also includes a 
 series of painted portraits---all reference classical painting and question 
 shifting structures of gender and personal identity. In Newspaper 
 Announcements, Kahn paints images of gay couples as they appear in their 
 wedding announcements. The Ben-day dots (tiny spots of color that make up 
 images in the newspaper ) are playfully recreated in these portraits, which 
 make up an appealing grid of pink and blue canvasses. Kahn offers 
 empowering and transgressive reinterpretations of mythology and tradition 
 through her exploration of the personal and political. \n\nKahn, former 
 drawing instructor at Tulane University, moved to the Bay Area from New 
 Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. Meet the artist on Saturday, October 25, 
 1-6 PM.\n https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/10/14/18544606.php
SUMMARY:Visual Aid's Remix Exhibition / Gallery Walk
LOCATION:Visual Aid's Offices\n116 New Montogomery Street, Ste. 640\nSan Francisco, 
 CA 94105\n415-777-8242\nhttp://www.visualaid.org
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/10/14/18544606.php
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