THREE ACTS
A Survey of Shame, Emotion and Oblivion
Curated by Mark Sink
In collaboration with Todd Edward Herman, Denver Collage Club, Alto Gallery and the Unperson Project, Three Acts braids three unique collaborations into one exhibit at RedLine for the Month of Photography exhibition.
RedLine Contemporary Art Center
2350 Arapahoe St, Denver, CO 80205
RedLine is open to the public (by appointment only).
Phone: (303) 296-4448
YouTube VIDEO - Exhibition Walk and Talk
Andre Ramos-Woodard and Todd Edward Herman offer a personal and collective experience of socially-constructed identity and the personal and/or public harm that can follow. Founder of East Window exhibit space in Boulder, Todd Edward Herman’s “Shame Radiant” explores 200 photographic responses to the experience of shame. This tapestry of suffering seeks to return images to a more reflective, healing and contemplative space as opposed to a relic of judgement or a painful memory.
Denver Collage Club and Alto Gallery join forces for the second act that dives into the phenomenon of Cancel Culture and the existential crisis spurred by the pandemic. Alongside Pardon My Creep, where artists Kellye Eisworth & Britland Tracy unpack the role and impact of digital mediation on human connection and the dismantling of relationships as a result.
The final act features the Unperson Project, an archive of oblivion from the artist duo from Mexico City, Andrea Tejeda and Susana Moyaho. Together, Three Acts carry the sentiment, crisis and response to the times.
I want to thank the talented artists who stepped up to our call for work in one of the most difficult times we have ever experienced. To RedLine, Louise Martorano, Whit Sibley, Heidi Morgan, and the amazing RedLine staff who put up with my painful messy ways. And special thanks to Reed Art and Imaging and Infinite Editions for their amazing printing work. - Mark Sink
Additionally, we would like to express our gratitude to RedLine's leading Annual Fund contributors: The David & Laura Merage Foundation, Bonfils-Stanton Foundation, Hemera Foundation and the citizens of the Scientific & Cultural Facilities District (SCFD).
Born in Nashville, Tennessee, Andre Ramos-Woodard is a contemporary artist
whose works evoke feelings of dreams and surrealistic narrative.
Primarily working with photography and collage, he conveys ideas of communal
and personal identity through internal conflicts. Ramos-Woodard is influenced
by personal experiences he went through while discovering his
own identity – he is queer and African-American, both of which are
well-known targets for discrimination. He uses his art to accent the ideas of
separation between him and the viewer, specifically those that may not resonate
with the ideas of the “Other” or problems within minority groups in contemporary culture. Ramos-Woodard received his BFA from Lamar University in Beaumont, Texas, and is currently pursuing his MFA at The University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, New Mexico. His thesis project is currently up at Trapdoor Projects in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
IG @andreduane
46. Chris Bagley Life’s a moire
Mixed Media including clips from “Yess I’m a mess” by Wheelchair Sportscamp 2021
49. Donald Fodness Outdoor Patio at the Cafe (#freebritney) Mixed Med 24”x24” 2020-2021
Prada Study Mixed Media 2015 8”x10”
45. George P. Perez Used to be Balls of Butter light jet prints, tape, leftover photo dust 29” x 49.5”
2020
25. Heather Oelklau Gravity archival digital print on Epson Luster 260, 3D printed figurines 375” x 44" 2021
32. Marja Saleva Helsinki Finland Self-Portrait with New Dress sticker 2020
42. Janice McDonald Humanity series 1 -3 Collage on watercolor paper 12” x 9” 2020
40. Jared David Paul Anderson (left to right)
Archival C-print in camera double exposure 35 mm film 4” x 6” 2021
Rainbowbows n Boxes
LA Bungalowlow
Palm Springs Bungalowlow
Boots n Bikes
Manocycle n Monocycle
1967 Sexty Heaven
54. Karen Fisher
The Nature of Home: Taking Root collage on paper 14” x 11” 2021
A Hurry to Return collage on paper 14” x 11” 2021
Foggy Nights or a Full Moon collage on paper 14” x 11” 2021
By Kellye Eisworth & Britland Tracy
IG: @pardonmycreep
PARDON MY CREEP is an investigation of intimacy, desire, and the performance of the self in the digital age. Weaving together found photographs of couples alongside messages they have received from men via online dating apps, artists Kellye Eisworth and Britland Tracy explore contemporary notions of relationships, both real and imagined. Each unanswered message offers a glimpse into the effect of digital mediation on human connection. The emotions conveyed in their words range from sad, thoughtful, bored, aggressive, and desperate. Some messages feel cold and impersonal, like automated form letters; others are inundated with aggressive, masculine bravado. Some men seem to genuinely want to connect. Placed together in conversation, their words become a surrogate for the connection the other is seeking. The photographs were purchased online or in flea markets. Forsaken or forgotten by their subjects, they no longer function as personal mementos.
56. Mado Rezink- Buenos Aires, Argentina
Musas-Indice hand cut collage 2016
Hospitalité hand cut collage 2013
Solfeggio in U Ukey hand cut collage 2016
El Hilo de la Historia la Voz de las Mujeresene hand cut collage 2016
Especulame hand cut collage 2013
26. Mario Zoots
Divergent Function 1 Paper collage on fine art paper 44” x 55” 2020 Courtesy of K Contemporary
27. Mario Zoots
Divergent Function 2 Paper collage on fine art paper 44” x 55” 2020 Courtesy of K Contemporary
36. Norma Cordova- Oakland, California 20180405 08MM For the Big Picture
Pigment Print from Polaroid 2020
37. Norma Cordova 20160919 Fremont Motel 03 For the Big Picture
Pigment Print from Polaroid 2020
41. Paula Gillen
Hathor Goddess of the Sky archival digital print 20” x 24” 2019
Lipstick Launcher archival digital print 20” x 24” 2020
Schrodinger’s Cat archival digital print 20” x 24” 2019
60. Pavel Matela- Prague, Czech Republic,
Yves Klein Leap into the Void “malir prostoru vrhajici se” Reality of Fiction Parasite Series
Carbon print on board. 2 - 4” x 6” 2009
30. Poppy Sink Untitled Crayon on silver gelatin print 4” x 6” 2020
31. Poppy Sink Dots carbon print 36” x 48” 2020
SHAME RADIANT
My facilitating an exhibit about our experiences with shame began by asking the questions: What can we learn about how we regulate, uphold or challenge social norms, hierarchies or transgressions when shame is activated? How can this powerful moral emotion turn inward, to ourselves, to our bodies, often catalyzing self-harm, self-negation, self-reflection, self-evaluation as well as healing?
A forum for such queries is particularly relevant at a time when our respective relationships to a climate of amplified national and global conservatism, xenophobia, racism, transphobia, homophobia, and ableism have been significantly challenged.
I invited photographers, writers, visual artists, and non-artists from around the world to make work that collectively addressed their experiences with shame. The nearly 300 photographs, collages, drawings, and texts that were submitted in response look at deeply intimate, broadly political, emotional, physical, social, sexual, interpersonal, intergenerational, and institutional aspects of shame.
“Shame Radiant” hopes to offer an opportunity for participants as well as viewers to explore more of the personhood and less of the pathology of our collective as well as our outlying experiences of shame. Everyone who submitted work to “Shame Radiant” is represented in this exhibition.
A big thank you to Femme Salée journal who invited east window to create a project for their online platform. That project is Shame Radiant.
Participating Artists:
Adam David Bencomo, Adrienne Catanese, Aina Giró de Pedro, Amanda Coslor, Amy Fleming, Andrea Tejeda, Angela Cannatelli, Anna Lawrence, Anne Waldman, Annette Isham, Antonio Martinez, Ashima Yadava, Ashley Andersen, Barbara Arnold, Bob Benvenuto, Bill Nelson, Bootz Leigh, Breanna McGeown, Brileigh Hardcastle, Brittney Denham, Bryn Robertson, Cali M. Banks, Candace Shepard, Carlos Rene Castro, Carmen King, Carmen Torres, Carol Dass, Charles Lehman, Chihiro Mori, Colleen White, Cora Angel, Crista Cloutier, Cyrena Rosati, Dan Froot, Daria Ivans, David Balluff, David Keyser, Devon Wiggers, Diane Fenster, Dona Laurita, Edina Picco, Ekaterine Kolesnikova, Elanna Conn, Elena Larchenko, Elena Liventseva, Elizabeth Flinsch, Ellen Friedlander, Emily Duffy, Emily Gillespie, Erin White, Floriana Di Giorgio, Francis Kohler, Giuliana Funkhouser, Heather Goodrich, Heather Oelklaus, Hillary Leftwich, Holly Nordeck, Hormoz, Ira Kremer, J.P. Mot, Jade Lascelles, Jamie Johnson, Jeff Hersch, Jennifer Ditona, Jess Hilliard, Jesse Hanshaw, Jessica Herman-Goodson, Johanna Granger, Joseph Caster, Josh Bergeron, Judith Hornbogen, Julia Vandenoever, Julie Fowells, Julie Hamel, Julie Harrison, Julie Puma, Kacy Jung, Kaelen Williams, Kaity Bai, Kasey Ferlic, Kathryn Hart, Kayla Smith, Kellye Eisworth, Kevin Hoth, Kevin O'connell, Laura Noel, Leah Diament, Leah Koerner, Lee LaBier, Leila Armstrong, Leo Tujak, Lisa Anita Wegner, Liz Quan, Lourdes Archundia, Luisa Zamora, Maria Grigoryeva, Marisa Lucchese, Marla Moore, Matt Calarco, Matthew Bollinger, Matthew Finley, Max Ferguson, Mayu Nagaoka, MB Gloria, Melanie MacKinnon, Melanie Walker, Melissa Lynn, Melissa Stuart, Michael Bach, Michael Dixon, Michael Honegger, Michael Mossman, Michael Pointer, Michel Dumont, Mickey Lee, Midori Morrow, Mikayla Shuster, Miria M. Toveg, Monika Balu, Natja Soave, Nina Cruz, Nino Memanishivilli, No Land, Nyareeta Gach, Olga Engibarova, Olga Tomkowiak, Olivia Hunter, Ona Herman, Osamu Yokonami, Paola Katherine Rodriguez, Patricia Rose Rocha, Patricia Vaughn Coslor, Paula Gillen, Paulina Maguda, Peter Yumi, Phoenix Mayet, Rachel Rowland, Ranran Fan, Ray Stephenson, Renee Alpert + Douglas Kahn, Renee Marino, Robert E. Jackson, Roberta Guarna, Roberto Rabadán, Roddy MacInnes, Rohina Hoffman, Rubi Hernandez, Sabetty Heyaime, Sabine Woudenberg, Samm Hestan, Santiago García, Saoirse Rose Maybear, Shaye Garrigan, Sherry Wiggins, Luís Filipe Branco, Silva See, Stephanie Silva, T.M. Spring, Tal Ben Avi, Tameca Coleman, Tara Trudell, Toni Oswald, Travis Hetman, Tristan Norris, Valentina di Natale, Vanessa Leroy, Vee CR, Virginia Schick, Wendy Heran, Yvens Alex Saintil, Zachary Francois, Zsuzsanna Nagy
Shame Radiant @eastwindow1
24. Suchitra Mattai a fractured land and a gigantic heart
gouache, found plate and glass from a recent attempted break-in to my studio
12” x 12” 2021 Courtesy of K Contemporary
55. Theresa Anderson
I will be so quiet it’ll be like I’m not even there,
images of a woman’s open mouth, hand cut from magazines,
advertisement excerpts sizes vary slightly 7.5” x 10” 2021
By The Unperson Project - Andrea Tejeda and Susana Moyaho
Mexico City
This project is an archive of oblivion. We created an open call inviting people to donate us photographs where they have erased someone from the image as a means to forget them or a moment in their history. This process is called vaporization and once someone is vaporized they become an Unperson, a term created by George Orwell in 1984. We focus on exploring the value of the photograph as a medium in which inflicted attempts of oblivion are perpetrated and how those blank spaces, burnt marks, cut out faces or scratched off ink taking the place of someone only insist on the presence of the ones who went from apotheosis to damnatio memoriae.
Images donated by:
Bonehead, Carlos Alexander López de la Roca, Gerardo Montes Leos, José Antonio, Escudero Sponholtz, K, Mariana Camacho, Mario Zoots, Miriam Correa, Oscar Gandara, Pablo Ortega/Julieta Ureña, Pablo Pulido Bernal, Reentrah, Roberto Rabadan, Shalomval, Susan Goldstein, and others.
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