Introducing: Ladylike
Lowertown Underground Artist Gallery | July 2nd-31ist, 2022
Ladylike’s introductory duo exhibition features paintings, experimental video projections, and MIXED-MEDIA installations created by St. PAUL-BASED artists Andrea Bagdon and Spencer Gillespie.This COLLABORATIVE body of work explores themes of femininity and gender performance through multiple digital and traditional mediums.
Female-identifying machine
Andrea Bagdon and Spencer Gillespie
As female-identified artists, we operate in a culture burdened by past transgressions and the nefarious cultural programming of the present. The old, patriarchal language around ideal femininity has been absorbed into a new, immediate, and inescapable algorithm. This algorithm attempts to define femme identity through false symbolic narratives fed to us through media saturation without regard for the unique ways people experience femininity.
Ladylike’s facetious introduction aims to create a dialog with these historical and contemporary ideologies by exposing them through the image-processing medium of video.
The La.dylike Reliquary
Relic No. 1 | Monotype, Acrylic, Oil, XPS Foam
Relic No. 1 | Monotype, Acrylic, Oil, XPS Foam (detail)
Relic No. 1 | Monotype, Acrylic, Oil, XPS Foam (detail)
Relic No. 2 | Monotype, Acrylic, XPS Foam
Relic No. 2 | Monotype, Acrylic, XPS Foam (detail)
Relic No. 3 | Monotype, Cyanotype, Acrylic, Fairy Tales, XPS Foam
Relic No. 3 | Monotype, Cyanotype, Acrylic, Fairy Tales, XPS Foam (detail)
Relic No. 4 | Monotype, Acrylic, XPS Foam
Relic No. 4 | Monotype, Acrylic, XPS Foam (detail)
Relic No. 4 | Monotype, Acrylic, XPS Foam (detail)
Relic No. 5 | Monotype, Cyanotype, Acrylic, Porcelain, PET resin, XPS Foam
Relic No. 5 | Monotype, Cyanotype, Acrylic, Porcelain, PET Resin, XPS Foam (detail)
Relic No. 9 | Monotype, Acrylic, XPS Foam
Relic No. 9 | Monotype, Acrylic, XPS Foam (detail)
Relic No. 7 | Monotype, Acrylic, XPS Foam
Relic No. 7 | Monotype, Acrylic, XPS Foam (detail)
Relic No. 8 | Monotype, Acrylic, XPS Foam
Relic No. 8 | Monotype, Acrylic, XPS Foam (detail)
Relic No. 6 | Monotype, Acrylic, Fairy Tales, XPS Foam (detail)
Relic No. 6 | Monotype, Acrylic, XPS Foam
Introducing | La.dy.like
Andrea Bagdon and Spencer Gillespie
As female-identified artists, we operate in a culture burdened by past transgressions and the nefarious cultural programming of the present. The old, patriarchal language around ideal femininity has been absorbed into a new, immediate, and inescapable algorithm. This algorithm attempts to define femme identity through false symbolic narratives fed to us through media saturation without regard for the unique ways people experience femininity.
Ladylike’s facetious introduction aims to create a dialog with these historical and contemporary ideologies by exposing them through the image-processing medium of video.
Negotiations | Andrea Bagdon
Negotiations examine the often fractured, feminine performances that occur in the intimate domestic space of the bedroom. These self-figures are doubled and mirrored with solidarity and ephemerality to create repetitions that disrupt historical images of female-identified persons as a muse or as central objects.
