What We Have Within

On view October 14, 2014 - January 9, 2015
By appointment only, Mon-Fri from 9am to 5pm
Please call 202-370-0151

Opening Reception: Wednesday, November 12, 2014 at 5:30pm

OAS AMA | F STREET GALLERY
Organization of American States
1889 F Street, NW
Washington, DC 20006

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The Art Museum of the Americas of the Organization of American States | OAS AMA joins CEDA Washington to present the new AMA Artwork Shop. With works from the OAS AMA F Street Gallery, the initiative aims to support photographers of the Americas, offering curated photography that you can purchase online, as part of the #AMAatHome | #AMAenCasa platform. Click on the link to browse artworks by Dominique Paul.

ABOUT THE EXHIBITION

Possibilities to externalize and communicate essential aspects of our psyche, beliefs, affiliations, or sexual orientations are increasing in modern societies, where freedom of expression, whether consensus or dissent, is a fundamental right. The artists represented in this exhibition promote this right, breaking with convention and reinforcing the desire for free and genuine expression, in some cases even as a means of transformation.

This exhibition explores the externalization of these messages, testing and sustaining freedom of speech, questioning dogmas and prejudices.

This selection of six series includes a range of artistic approaches, from public representation, as with Barnett, Birnbaum and Allen, to those more intimate and private, as in the works of Handal, Keenan, and Paul.

From the series: TransCuba by Mariette Pathy Allen (American, b. Egypt), Not in Your Face by Susan Barnett (American, b. Orange, New Jersey), Sisters of the Commonwealth by Meg Birnbaum, (American, b. Somerville, Massachusetts), Female Masking by Daniel Handal (Honduran, b. Tegucigalpa), Look at Me David Lykes Keenan, (American, b. Detroit, Michigan), and Insects of Suriname by Dominique Paul (Canadian, b. Montreal, Québec).


SELECTION OF WORKS

Ryan, Santa Fe (2013) from the series Look at Me by David Lykes Keenan

Laura at Home, Havana (2012-14) from the series TransCuba by Mariette Pathy Allen

Sisters of the Eternal Indulgency, Public Access TV (2013) from the series Sisters of the Commonwealth by Meg Birnbaum

Jovina in her Kitchen, Monrovia (2008) from the Female Masking series by Daniel Handal

The Insects of Surinam 22 (2014) from the series Insects of Suriname by Dominique Paul

From the series Not in Your Face by Susan Barnett