SOUTHFIRST: PRESENTS


SADIE HAWKINS DANCE
21 May – 4 July, 2004
OPENING RECEPTION:  FRIDAY, May 21  7–9 PM
SOUTHFIRST gallery is proud to present a group show, SADIE HAWKINS DANCE.

SADIE HAWKINS DANCE brings together new works of painting, drawing, video, sculpture, and other media in conversation. SOUTHFIRST asked fourteen artists to invite a partner to make work with or show new work beside for the show. The result is a 28-person group exhibition that will be on view from 21 May – 4 July.

The title Sadie Hawkins refers to the comic book character that inspired the role reversal dances of the 1930s and 1940s, in which women invited men. The show gently flips the curatorial premise in which a curator chooses work for an exhibition by letting artists choose each other.

Simon Aldridge – Rebecca Bird – Yvette Brackman – Beth Brideau – Jane Callister – Benjamin Cottam – Ann Craven – Sean Dack – Mari Eastman – Anne Eastman – Liam Gillick - Kent Henricksen – Alika Herreshoff – Millree Hughes – Aaron Koenigsberg - Anja Krabbe – Margaret Lee - Ghariokwu Lemi - José Lerma – LoVid – Tucker Nichols – Asuka Oshawa – Douglas Repetto – Mark Schubert – Ellen Takata – Matthew Thurber - Jen Vanderpool & Lee Walton.

A summer group show about including viewers in the conversations possible between artists, Sadie Hawkins Dance will be on view until July 4, 2004.  

SOUTHFIRST is located on 60 N6th Street in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
Gallery hours: Fri, Sat & Sun 1-6 PM and by appointment. Subway: L train to Bedford Avenue.

For more information, please contact Maika Pollack at 718 599 4884 or info@southfirst.org.

S O U T H F I R S T
60 N6th Street Brooklyn, NY 11211
phone/fax 718 599 4884
www.southfirst.org