marlene mountain
painting series 17
'the great mad mother earths plus a glad'
exhibition statement and titles
1987-88

 

the great mad mother earths plus a glad

painting series seventeen
the great mad mother earths plus a glad
september 1987-august 1988 (7 mads 48 x 36," 1 glad 68" across/diamond [4 x 4'])

1) mad earth one : malescholarshit
one: color in progress
2) mad earth two : powwar
m e 2 detail   
two: color in progress
3) mad earth three : bureaucrazy
4) mad earth four : naycheer
four: color
5) mad earth five : grate reliegions
6) mad earth six : big busyness
7) mad earth seven : hequality
8) glad earth : wom words

 

showings:
Aesthetic Access, Valle Crucis NC, October 1988
Lowell Hayes: Marlene Mountain's Great Mad Mother Earth Paintings. Astonishing
tragicomical frightening, spare of line -- cartooney, crazy authoritative, compelling 'WOM'
(Mother, Woman) images brood or gesticulate wildly in universes of precisely recrafted words leaving viewer no place to hide from the bitter, ridiculous truth of feminine/human experience with sexual inequality and suppression. If one was challenged by Mountain's
A WOMAN'SNON-COMMEMORATIVE STAMP COLLECTION or mystified by her SHE IS ONE
AND SHE IS TWO:SIGNS OF THE ANCIENT, this show may bring it all together--or it may
blow it all apart! Humility and pride can co-exist, as they do with us this year at
Aesthetic Access in presenting this landmark exhibition.

'letter notes' after the show

The Great Goddess Art Gallery
'ps 17 exhibition photograph'

haibun 'mad earths in my room' [first 4 paintings]
haibun 'shetrillogy'

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