Latin for Crab–
a summer group show under the sign of Cancer
“Latin for Crab” considers the female body- its armor, its flesh, bound, determined, embodied- from perspectives of illness, mortality, and recovery. Works in the show derive from artist responses to their own or close associates’ illnesses.
Featuring the work of Pinky Bass, Heidi Kumao, Sarah Cusimano Miles, Karen Edmunds, Jan Gilbert, Monica Zeringue, and Lee Deigaard who also curated. With a special viewer browsing section of related texts and picture books, including The Trotula, a medieval compendium of women’s medicine.
The Front: July 2013

Pinky/MM Bass, Contemplating My Internal Organs, gelatin silver, thread, 1999-2006

Pinky/MM Bass, Contemplating My Internal Organs, reverse side

Lee Deigaard, Pinky Bass, Monica Zeringue

Sarah Cusimano Miles, Karen Edmunds, Jan Gilbert

right, Heidi Kumao, Self-Portrait with Monkey, Spring Break, Morning After

Pinky/MM Bass: X-Rayed #1, Revelation, Skeletal Alternative, Fran’s Scorpio II

near right, Pinky/MM Bass, Body Illuminated, floor lamp, shade with gelatin silver, thread

near left, Heidi Kumao, The Load, video, 2:30 min., stop-motion w/clay, wire, fabric