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<div>The Maria & Alberto de la Cruz Art Gallery at Georgetown
University is pleased to present a special collaboration with one of
the world's most recognized artists, Mary Kelly (American b. 1941,
lives Los Angeles, California). Kelly has influenced conceptual and
feminist art practices and shaped the way art is taught for
decades.<i> Mary Kelly: To Witness the Future</i> marks the beginning
of an academic year devoted to exhibitions and programs featuring
women-aligned artists. This exhibition is the first to specifically
explore Kelly's long engagement with political movements. The works
exhibited were produced between 2005 and 2020, but they reference the
responses of women and women-aligned activists to key issues of equal
rights in the United States and Europe since the 1960s. On view will
be works she made with a range of collaborators, methods, and
materials including projected video, lightbox photographs, live
happenings, and "paintings" made of household dryer lint. To
create these works, Kelly mined her historical archives examining
recurring themes of gender discrimination, racism, nuclear war, and
the climate crisis, and the forms of resistance they have
generated.<br>
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<div>In one suite of works, Kelly appropriates cover images of
activist publications from the early 1970's, juxtaposing them
with<i> Life Magazine's</i> 1945 depiction of a detonated atomic
bomb. She re-presents them in an unconventional medium: lint from her
household dryer. By turning a chore traditionally considered
"women's work" into a creative act, Kelly evokes the passage of
time, and reflects on feminism's legacy. Three illuminated
transparencies document Kelly's 2019 action in California's
Coachella Valley. She clutches umbrellas emblazoned with the slogans
of the Cold War collective Women Strike for Peace (WSP).<i> Flashing
Nipple Remix</i> documents one of Kelly's happenings, the restaging
a press photo of protestors. She asked, "what is left after the
specific demands of the moment have faded and what, if anything, is
passed on from one generation to the next?" The large video
projection<i> WLM Demo Remix</i> animates an iconic photograph of the
1970 Women's Liberation Movement (WLM) demonstration in New York
City. And in<i> World on Fire Timeline,</i> lint panels quoting
Kelly's previous works are arranged in the nonlinear time of personal
memory alongside political history.<br>
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<div>Kelly's work revisits and conceptually frames protests that
have effected change, opening a multi-generational dialogue about the
evolution of these demands, and offering a poetic way to witness the
future. "As both an art professor and art maker, Mary continually
inspires critical conversations. Her artwork is more relevant today
than ever before, as a new generation embraces activism and examines
the role of identity in our lives and society. We are honored to bring
such an influential artist and her ideas to the Hilltop," says the
Galleries' Founding Director and curator of the exhibition, Al
Miner.<br>
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<div><b>Maria & Alberto de la Cruz Art Gallery at Georgetown
University</b></div>
<div>3535 Prospect St. NW.<br>
Washington, DC 20007</div>
<div>United States</div>
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