female nude seated: a free stage play saturday 16 may 2020

“I feel very hon­ored to por­tray the life of a fe­male artist whose work has been var­i­ous­ly deemed ‘sub­hu­man,’ ‘mu­tant,’ and ‘ob­ses­sive.’ It’s not of­ten that, as a fe­male-iden­ti­fy­ing artist, one gets to create/be a part of work that di­rect­ly calls at­ten­tion to the bi­as­es with which her, and her art, may be viewed. That act of voic­ing and call­ing at­ten­tion to said bi­as­es is thrilling and ter­ri­fy­ing in equal mea­sure.”
—Olivia Rose Bar­resi (Mainie Jel­lett) in a note to FLOMM

“In the wake of World War I, Mainie Jel­lett and Evie Hone meet in art school when Evie in­ter­rupts Mainie’s at­tempt to drink a jar of paint thin­ner. Over a bot­tle of brandy, the two get to know one an­oth­er as artists and as women who are strug­gling to make art in a field dom­i­nat­ed by men. A sto­ry of fe­male sex­u­al­i­ty, trau­ma, and the de­mands of artis­tic ideals, Fe­male Nude Seat­ed shows two young women at a per­son­al cross­roads in a time of ex­tra­or­di­nary change. They might be able to save one an­oth­er, how­ev­er, as they de­cide to take con­trol of their free­dom while shat­ter­ing the sta­tus quo in 1917 Lon­don.”
—coun­ter­claim pro­duc­tions

 

Mainie Jel­lett first ar­rived on my radar with Juli­ja Svet­lo­va’s dis­cus­sion with Paul Rouhan on the most re­cent episode of RADíO FLoMM.

And it’s thru kismet that Jel­lett is float­ing in the cre­ative minds of oth­ers right now – this week, Juli­ja drew our at­ten­tion to a play hap­pen­ing to­mor­row night that’s only as far away as your screen:

 

NYC-based coun­ter­claim pro­duc­tions presents
an on­line read­ing of Car­olyn Gage’s lat­est one-act play

Fe­male Nude Seat­ed

Sat­ur­day 16 May 2020
7:30pm eastern/4:30 pa­cif­ic

Di­rect­ed by Emma Rosa Went
as­sist­ed by Har­ri­son Dens­more and as­sis­tant producer/dramaturg Abbey Joan Burgess

star­ring
Olivia Rose Bar­resi and Mor­gaine Good­ing-Sil­ver­wood

plus
talk­back af­ter­wards with Car­olyn Gage and all col­lab­o­ra­tors, mod­er­at­ed by Hillary E. Miller

 

CLICK HERE for the Zoom link/registration

OF­FI­CIAL PRO­GRAM
FACE­BOOK IN­VITE
COUN­TER­CLAIM WEB­SITE

 

Wats this all about? A LOT of his­to­ry hap­pened in 1917! Here’s the play­wright’s own in­tro:

 

 

“I’m very hum­bled to bring Mainie Jel­lett and Evie Hone to the pub­lic con­scious­ness in this way, and at this mo­ment – and also as a part of a bril­liant artis­tic team of in­di­vid­u­als who iden­ti­fy them­selves across mul­ti­tudi­nous gen­der and sex­u­al iden­ti­ties. I hope I can do this team, this play, and Mainie Jel­lett jus­tice.”
—Olivia Rose Bar­resi (Mainie Jel­lett)

 

 

AND (be­cause you asked) (It was you, right?) RADíO FLoMM will re­turn soon.

We have the lat­est episode in the can – it just needs to be tak­en OUT of the re­cep­ta­cle we threw it in and edit­ed.

 

—steve mehal­lo

Flom­mist Steve Mehal­lo is a graph­ic de­sign­er, il­lus­tra­tor, font de­sign­er, ed­u­ca­tor, food­ie and gad­fly. He is the cre­ator and founder of FLOMM! Pic­tured: Works by Mainie Jel­lett.

 

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