ALEXIS HUNTER

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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.

The artist has been invited to have solo shows annually since the 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, and others not in London. Since 2006 her narrative photographic sequences have been introduced to a new generation of feminists and have been shown in the Norwich Gallery, WACK! Art and the Feminist revolution in the United States and in the Cologne Art Fair in Germany.

NEWS last updated 3/10/2008

'We Are Unsuitable For Framing' at The National Gallery of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

- will include the artists Alexis Hunter, Judy Darragh, Margaret Dawson, Jacqueline Fraser, Christine Hellyar, Christine Webster , Hye Rim Lee, Vivian Lynn, Lauren Lysaght, Julia Morison, Anne Noble, Fiona Pardington, Lisa Reihana, Caroline Rothwell and Barbara Kruger.

The exhibition presents a group of works that address aspect of how we perform and represent ourselves. The works explore aspect of identity, the feminine, the masculine, sexuality and mythology.
Charotte Huddleston, Curator Contemporary Art, Te Papa.

20th of December 2008 to mid-April 2009

The Stuckist artist Elsa Dax confronts a 'Turner Prize Guide' on the Steps of Tate Britain in London

 Stuckists demonstration on the steps of Tate Britain in London.
30.9.2008


Read essay by Alexis Hunter 'The Stuckists - Medium or Content?' essay and more photos here

 

 

20 image Approach to Fear III:Taboo - demystify photgraphic narrative sequence, detail no. 14

The National Gallery of New Zealand Te Papa has purchased two major Feminist Art Movement photographic series by Alexis Hunter, The Object Series 1974 and the Approach to Fear III: Taboo - demystify,1976 narrative sequence, from Whitespace Gallery in Auckland

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

 

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 heterosexual 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

Hunter interviewed about The Object Series on National Broadcasting News, NBC TV. 7/3/2007 (USA)

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
www.whitespace.co.nz
"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
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
wikipedia/alexis_hunter

for archive page on earlier shows go here

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