In both the six sculptures from the mid-1990s, and the six new drawings created for the exhibition Players, Huma Bhabha reinvents the human head, deconstructing and reconstructing an archetype in which she gathers and transforms various art-historical typologies. From masks, technological portraits of archaic beings, to drawings, which mark a return to an expressionistic mode of depiction of fantasmal faces, Bhabha seeks inspiration from very different sources, tribal art, science-fiction, combining them to arrive at a new kind of figuration and constructing the human face as a site in which all the possibilities of the expressive can be played out.

February 12 to April 15, 2012. For more information, visit the Maramotti Collection website.

"Minter entered her silver age with these ultra-slo-mo videos and billboard-size paintings, featuring images of babies and close-ups of feet in high heels splashing through puddles of aluminum paint. Luxuriant and decadent, the work continued Minter’s cautionary investigation of our never-ending cultural obsession with glamour and beauty."

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Salon 94 Bowery will be open Saturday, November 26, from 11 am to 6 pm, and open on Sunday, November 27, from 1 pm to 5 pm.

iona rozeal brown will extend the aesthetics and content of her paintings in her first work of live performance, battle of yestermore. In homage to the “onnagata” of Japanese Kabuki theater, the story will revolve around an epic battle between a princess and the guardians of her family’s gravesite. brown's wide ranging influences include myth-based genres like Kabuki and Noh theater, as well as the “vogueing” made famous in the Harlem ballroom scene of the 1960s. The piece features performances by vogueing legends such as Benny and Javier Ninja, along with New York Hip Hop dancers Rokafella, Beasty, GI Jane, Lady Beast, Phoenix, and Mona Lisa. battle of yestermore will also feature live musicians performing an original sound score composed by brown.

Thursday, November 17, 8:00 pm — 9:00 pm

Friday, November 18, 8:00 pm — 9:00 pm

Skylight West MAP
$30

http://11.performa-arts.org/event/iona-rozeal-brown-performa-commission