This is Going Down

Meredith Nickie
Friday, June 4th - Sunday, June 27th, 2010

ABOUT THE EXHIBITION

"This is Going Down," presents a new series of works that explore scenes of subjugation – full of unrest and yet, alarmingly still. Works titled after anthems of protest, Strange Fruit and Waltzing Matilda, allude to the lynched and the drowned figure (respectively) through entangled forms of race and class struggle where the marked body is laid bare. In this exhibition, the figure is made absent and only represented by elements from the domestic interior and the public sphere in sculptural constructions made both familiar and strange. Like props inviting the next scene to ensue, this dynamic installation explores presence under the glare of death.

Meredith Nickie is a Canadian artist based in New York. She works primarily in sculpture, installation and photography. Her diverse projects challenge spatial representations of gender, race, and class as framed by the historiographies of imperial rule, and the enduring legacies of culture and capital. Nickie's work has recently been shown in New York at Art in General, Sculpture Center, PS122, and Rush Arts Gallery, as well as IDEA Space at Colorado College, Colorado Springs; A Space Gallery, Toronto;and the 2010 Sculpture Biennial at Evergreen Museum, Baltimore. In 2007, she received her Master of Fine Arts from Cornell University and in the same year, was a resident at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. Nickie was a DAAD fellow in Berlin from 2007-2008, and a Whitney Museum Independent Study Program fellow from 2008-2009.