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Mary Coble

Mary Coble is an American feminist Artist. Coble is originally from Julian, North Carolina. Coble currently lives and has a studio in Gothenburg, Sweden. She is a professor at the Funen Art Academy in Odense, Denmark [1] Coble is an advocate for the LGBT community, as her art revolves around the injustice the community faces. Coble has had fifteen solo performances/exhibitions, and has been in numerous group exhibitions. Coble received her Bachelors of Fine Arts from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro in Greensboro, NC in 2001. She then went on to receive her Masters of Fine Arts from The George Washington University in Washington, DC in 2004. Coble has taught and has had residencies at several schools and studios across the world.

Installations and Performances

Some of Mary Coble's more notable performances have been about issues surrounding the LGBT community. One of Coble's first solo performances, Note to Self performed in New York in 2005, Coble collected 436 names of gay, lesbian, bi, and transgender individuals that died due to hate crimes; as there was no official documentation before. Coble had the names tattooed on her body, which took twelve hours, without ink creating an image of blood. Then each name was duplicated on a sheet of paper and the prints were hung on the wall. The use of inkless tattooing was to reference the brutality of the murders, many victims and slurs carved into their bodies.

Her most recent performance, Deferral performed and installed at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington DC, dealt with FDA regulations banning men who have had sex with other men since 1977. Coble collected slogans for blood donation campaigns and printed them on separation screens you may see at a donation site, there were also an outlines superhero repeated on many screens around the installation. Over the course of four days, Coble worked with a group of gay men who altered the superhero images with red string, as to replace their unacceptable blood. Coble had blood drawn on site and then used it to paint on the screens.

As most of Coble's performances involve causing herself harm/pain; creating a beautiful yet frightening visual confrontation with the issues at hand. "It is not about hurting myself. It's the only way I can think to Express these ideas that my audience will have a strong enough connection to." [2]

Solo Exhibitions

  • March 2004, “Asphyxiation of Genderfication: Blurring Boundaries” THE DIMOCK GALLERY; THE GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY, Washington, DC
  • September 2005, “Note to Self”-Performance CONNER CONTEMPORARY ART, Washington, DC
  • November 2005, “Binding Ritual, Daily Routine”-Performance ARTISTS SPACE—PERFORMA 05, New York, NY, curated by Christian Rattemeyer
  • October 2006, “Marker (NYC)”-Performance D.U.M.B.O. UNDER THE BRIDGE FESTIVAL, Brooklyn, NY
  • April 2007, “GenderMask (becoming)”-Performance ELIZABETH A. SACKLER CENTER FOR FEMINIST ART, THE BROOKLYN MUSEUM OF ART, Brooklyn, NY
  • May 2007, “Aversion”-Performance, CONNER CONTEMPORARY ART, Washington, DC
  • August 2007, “Marker (DC)” SITE PROJECTS, WPA/C, Washington, DC
  • January 2008, “Aversion” GALERIE NINA MENOCAL, Mexico City, Mexico
  • February 2008, “Marker (Madrid)” ARCO INTERNATIONAL ART FAIR, Madrid, Spain
  • March 2008, “Blood Script” PULSE CONTEMPORARY ART FAIR, New York City, NY
  • May 2010, "Source", CONNER CONTEMPORARY ART, Washington, DC
  • March 2011 "Ascension/Immersion", CONNER CONTEMPORARY ART, Washington, DC, Coble/Riley Projects
  • June 2012, "Maneuvering", OVERGADEN INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART, Copenhagen, DK
  • February 2012, "Watermarks", CONNERSMITH., Washington, DC, Coble/Riley Projects
  • August 2013, "Deferral", CORCORAN GALLERY OF ART, Washington, DC

Group Exhibitions

  • March 2004, “The Annual Awards Show” THE LUTHER W. BRADY GALLERY; THE GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY, Washington, DC
  • August 2004, “Academy 2004” CONNER CONTEMPORARY ART, Washington, DC
  • December 2004, “The Staged Body-Contemporary Photography” CURATOR’S OFFICE, Washington, DC
  • August 2005, “Academy 2005” CONNER CONTEMPORARY ART, Washington, DC
  • October 2005, “Transformer: 2nd Annual Silent Benefit Auction” FUSEBOX, Washington, DC
  • February 2006, “Body Languages” KATZEN ARTS CENTER, AMERICAN UNIVERSITY, Washington, DC
  • March 2006, “Me, Myself and I” CONTEMPORARY ART CENTER OF VIRGINIA, Virginia Beach, VA
  • May 2006, “Passion/Provocation: Photography and Video in the Collection of Teofilo Cohen,” PLAZA DE LA CIUDADELA 2, Mexico City, Mexico
  • November 2006, “Transformer: 3rd Annual Silent Benefit Auction” EDISON PLACE GALLERY, Washington, DC
  • March 2007, “Global Feminisms,” curated by Maura Reilly and Linda Nochlin, ELIZABETH A. SACKLER CENTER FOR FEMINIST ART, THE BROOKLYN MUSEUM OF ART, Brooklyn, NY
  • March 2007, “Radius 250”, ARTSPACE GALLERY, PLANT ZERO, Richmond Virginia
  • July 2007, “Sondheim Prize Semi-Finalist Group Show” DECKER AND MEYERHOFF GALLERY, MARYLAND INSTITUTE COLLEGE OF ART, Baltimore, MD
  • September 2007, “The Trawick Prize Group Show” CREATIVE PARTNERS GALLERY, Bethesda, MD
  • October 2007-October2008, “Currents: Recent Acquisitions” HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
  • February 2009, “Talk Dirty to Me” LARISSA GOLDSTON GALLERY, New York, NY
  • February 2009, “Note to Self” SCHROEDER ROMERO, New York, NY
  • November 2008, “Perspective” ANAID ART GALLERY, Bucharest, Romania
  • November 2008, “Gallery Artists: Recent Works” CONNER CONTEMPORARY ART, Washington, DC
  • October 2008, “Burning Down the House: Building a Feminist Art Collection” ELIZABETH A. SACKLER CENTER FOR FEMINIST ART, THE BROOKLYN MUSEUM OF ART, Brooklyn, NY
  • October 2008, “Uncommon Beauty” THE ELLIPSE ARTS CENTER, Arlington, VA
  • August 2008, “Picturing Politics 2008: Artists Speak to Power” ARLINGTON ARTS CENTER, Arlington, VA
  • May 2009, “Lost and Found: Queerying the Archive” NILOLAJ COPENHAGEN CENTER OF CONTEMPORARY ART, Copenhagen, Denmark
  • June 2009, "Experimental Video: Presented by the Rubell Family Collection and Conner Contemporary Art" CAPITOL SKYLINE, Washington, DC
  • September 2009, “Hall of Mirrors” NORTHLIGHT GALLERY, ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY, Tempe, Arizona
  • January 2010, "Cream"-Washington Project for the Arts Auction,Curated by Kristen Hileman, Curator of Contemporary Art, Baltimore Museum of Art, KATZEN CENTER OF ART,AMERICAN UNIVERSITY, Washington, DC
  • February 2010, “Lost and Found: Queerying the Archive” BILDMUSEET UMEA, UNIVERSITY OF SWEDEN, Umea, Sweden
  • February 2010, "Market Estate Project", MARKET ESTATE, London, United Kingdom, Coble/Riley Projects
  • March 2010, "Synthetic Zero", THE BRONX ARTSPACE, Bronx, NY, Coble/Riley Projects
  • July 2010, "I Know What You Did Last Summer" SAINT CECILIA"S CONVENT, Brooklyn, Collaboration with Cooper Holoweski
  • September 2010, "SPARK: Festival of Music and Art, UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA, Minneapolis, MN, Coble/Riley Projects
  • November 2010, "Sweet Jesus", LEMP BREWERY, St. Louise MO
  • December 2010, "The Narcissism of Difference", DECKER AND MEYERHOFF GALLERY, MARYLAND INSTITUTE COLLEGE OF ART, Baltimore, MD
  • August 2011, "Slippery Slope", CAPITOL SKYLINE HOTEL, Washington, DC, Coble/Riley Projects
  • September 2011, "tilVALG!", RUM46, Åarhus, DK & TRYKTRYKTRYK, Copenhagen, DK
  • September 2011, "Asylum", ALT_CPH 11: ENCOUNTERS, FABRIKKEN FOR KUNST OG DESIGN, Copenhagen, DK
  • October 2011, "Surface Tension: The Future of Water", THE SCIENCE GALLERY, Dublin, Ireland
  • October 2011-September 2013, "re.act.feminism #2-a performing archive", Traveling to: Centro Cultural Montehermoso Kulturunea, Victoria Gasteiz, Spain; Instytut Sztuki Wyspa, Gdanske, Poland; Museet for Samtidskunst, Roskilde, Denmark; Tallinna Kunstihoone, Tallinn, Estonia; Fundacio Antoni Tapies, Barcelona, Spain, Akademie der Kunste, Berlin, Germany.
  • November 2011, "Fighting Cocks", Committment Issues, Supported by FADO Performance Art Network, Toronto Canada
  • March 2012, "Moving Pictures", PS 122 GALLERY, New York City, New York, Coble/Riley Projects
  • June 2012, "Queering Sound", Presented by Sonic Circuits at ATLAS PERFORMING ARTS CENTER, Washington, DC
  • June 2012, "Surface Tension: The Future of Water", EYEBEAM CENTER FOR ART AND TECHNOLOGY, NYC, New York
  • August 2012, "The Great Refusal: Taking on New Queer Aesthetics", SCHOOL OF THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO, Chicago, Illinois
  • September 2012, "Epidermiques: The Art of Tattoo", Presented by KRAFT, THE GARAGE, Bethune, France
  • October 2012, ""Surface Tension: The Future of Water", THE MUSEUM, Ontario CA
  • October 2012, "Crackbags and Lighters" included in the "International Photography Triennial", Presented by the MUSEET FOR FOTOKUNST, Odense, DK
  • March 2013, "Epidermiques #2: Art & Tattoo", Presented by KRAFT, MAISON FOLIE WAZEMMES, Lille, France
  • October 2013, "Queer Objectivity", THE STAMP GALLERY, UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, Baltimore, MD


References

  1. ^ Mary Coble: biography
  2. ^ Beckman, Rachel. "'Aversion': A Jolt of an Experience". Washington Post. Retrieved 22 April 2014 Washinton Post. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)
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