ALEXIS HUNTER

ARTIST

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The artist Alexis Hunter's work has evolved considerably over the years and different media has been used to pursue ideas on society and the role of women.

Alexis Hunter has been invited to have solo shows annually since her photographic Sequences were exhibited at the Institute of Contemporary Art, London. In 1989 the Auckland City Gallery mounted the artist's Retrospective Fears/Dreams/Desires and her work has figured in many significant group exhibitions at the Hayward Gallery, Whitechapel Gallery, London, and Museum of Modern Art Los Angeles and other museums.

Marina from Karma with Alexis Hunter's 'Contamination 1976'

NEWS last updated 28/4/2008

KARMA INTERNATIONAL showing Alexis Hunter's photography at OPEN SPACE COLOGNE IN GERMANY April 2008

 

Hunter's Domestic Warfare photographic narrative sequence, a 100 image performance-photowork is to be shown for the first time in the Hayward Gallery Touring Exhibition since 'Three Perspectives of Photography'.
Hayward Gallery Touring 2008 

New Book out by Hayward Publishing,'No such Thing as Society' ISBN 978-1-85332-265-5


'Yes, No, Maybe' is a photographic series on sexual attraction in 1973-4, street photographs taken in New York and London with the (female) photgrapher as voyeur.

Talk, 'Romantic Love and Sexual Hatred',10th Nov, 3pm, by Alexis Hunter at Winterthur, near Zurich in Switzerland during 'Aggression' Exhibition co-curated by Oliver Kielmayer and Dimitrina Sevova ''The Object Series' about the hetrosexaul female gaze and 'Dialogue with a Rapist' about racism and sexism on the street ..." more at Kunstalle Winterthur 

Samstag,10. November,15 Uhr, Vorlesung und Prasentation ihrer Arbeit: in englischer Sprache: Radikaler Feminismus in the 1970ern / Sexuelle Kriegsfuhrung - Romantische Liebe und sexueller Hass.

 'Soho Bicycle' detail, an oil painting from the oil painting series 'Female Phantasy'

Alexis Hunter paintings shown with the London Stuckists -a humorous look at female desire ..."Stuckism art is beautiful, fierce and awkward at times but ultimately it represents passionate, political, unafraid artists" A Gallery, London, to Oct 2007

 

'The Object Series', a 25 foot panel of paintings on canvas, on the objectifcation of men, working class culture and Art History, 1974 -5

Radical Feminist Painting 'Object Series' shown in Wack! at the National Museum of Women in The Arts in Washington DC USA

An abundance of insights," by Christopher Knight of the LA Times, April 29, 2007
"Thanks to the beautifully rendered Photorealist style, a lush assertion of feminine power enhances the erotic edge of its otherwise masculine imagery".
Full article by Christopher Knight

"WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution at Moca Los Angeles "Alexis Hunter Mako Idemitsu Sanja Ivekovic Joan Jonas Kirsten Justesen Mary Kelly Joyce Kozloff Friedl Kubelka Shigeko Kubota Yayoi Kusama Suzanne Lacy ..." on www.moca.org/wack/

Hunter interviewed about The Object Series on National Broadcasting News, NBC TV. 7/3/2007
The Model's Revenge, photographic series on voyerism, the status of women in art, and Feminism. 2007 Radical Feminism in Dealer Gallery in Auckland New Zealand
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"FEMINIST ART BUYS A FIGHT"- Wednesday April 04, 2007
By Adam Gifford Article in the NZ Herald
"It's a side-on shot of a male torso, naked from the waist up, leather trousered below, hand on hip holding a cigarette, New York's twin towers in ghostly shadow behind".
 The New Zealand Herald
Poster for Alexis Hunter exhibition at Bunkier Sztuki Gallery in Poland

2007 Bunkier Sztuki in Cracow Poland exhibits Radical Feminism Photographic Sequences and Films by Hunter

"Bunkier Sztuki:Alexis Hunter is one of the most important representatives ofthe engaged feminist ... Alexis Hunter’s works are relevant."

creative europe link
"Alexis Hunter "Radykalny feminizm w latach 70. wystawa w Bunkrze ...Twórczosc Alexis Hunter ciagle pozostaje aktualna, pokazujac nam, ze prawa i przywileje, o które kobiety walczyly w latach 60. i 70. ponownie znalazly siew"
Back cover of the artist's book Alexis Hunter Radical Feminism in the 1970s

Alexis Hunter/ Radical Feminism in the 1970s
published by Norwich Gallery, Editor Lynda Morris, is now available at the following bookshops: 

Shipley Specialist Fine Art Books, Charing Cross Road, London
Owl Bookshop, Kentish Town Road, London
Thomas Heneage Artbooks, 42 Duke Street, LONDON SW1Y 6DJ,
Parsons Books, Wellesley Street, Auckland
Tivoli, Waiheki Island, Auckland
Museum of Modern Art Bookshop, Los Angeles
Norwich Project Space, Norwich

or order from this website here
Picture of a cat biting a woman's hand, Approach to Fear, photographic series detail, 1976

2006 Norwich Gallery in England -  Alexis Hunter / Radical Feminism in the 1970s includes the Approach To fear Photographs.. 

E-Flux : Alexis Hunter Radical Feminism in the 1970s - (2006-11-03)"Alexis Hunter in conversation with John Roberts 1997 Alexis Hunter’s work will be featured along with that of Mary Kelly in the forthcoming exhibition WACK!"
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