From October 9 to October 24, 2009, Atlantic Works Gallery presents PHALLIC CONFESSIONS & FLACCID TRUTH new work created by two of the gallery artists—Laura Torres and Samantha Marder.
Laura Torres and Samantha Marder are not strangers to the game of desire. Marder has spent well over a decade as proprietrix of My Changing Room, a cross-dressing salon in Boston. This affords her access to inner sanctums of fantasy and repositories of favored fetishes. Meanwhile Torres runs www.doubleblind.me, a dating service/art project which explores the mechanics of human attraction. In October the two artists unite to create what is certain to be a thought-provoking and visually stimulating collaboration.
For their upcoming show Marder uses anecdotes of confessed desires to construct a tent, an allegorical womb-like structure. The material for the tent is made entirely of men’s underwear removed in ritual fashion when commencing the feminine transition. Torres explores the nature of the phallus in its flaccid and semi-turgid states via cloth plushies shaped in penile-esque growths which live outside Marder’s tent.
The public is invited to attend the OPENING RECEPTION on Friday, October 9 from 6:30 to 9:30 pm and to visit the gallery during the following hours: Fridays 2 – 6pm (except for the afternoon of the opening reception) and Saturdays 2 – 6pm. The public is also invited to attend the Atlantic Works Gallery’s monthly THIRD THURSDAY SHINDIG on Thursday, October 15 from 6:30 to 9:30 pm.
To schedule a private press viewing and interview at a more convenient time, please contact Laura Rollins, 617.877.8249.
Begun in 2003, ATLANTIC WORKS GALLERY, “East Boston’s Collaborative Space for Art and Ideas,” is a member-operated gallery located on the top floor of 80 Border Street on the waterfront of East Boston. It is T-accessible (near the Maverick T stop on the Blue Line) and parking space is usually ample. For detailed directions and other information about members and past and future shows, please see atlanticworks.org