Exhibition view of Cuties Who Are Nice at Kontort, 2019, with works from Hudspith’s Illness and Objecthood series. 





Cuties Who Are Nice
Four-person exhibition curated by Marianne Katzman, Presented by the Magenta Foundation

KONTORT
Toronto ON, Canada
October 10 - Nov 30, 2019


The artists in Cuties Who Are Nice – Ellen Bleiwas, Laura Hudspith, Megan Ellen MacDonald, and Luca Soldovieri – observe the value of objects and the desire to give them meaning. Via two-dimensional and three-dimensional mediums, Cuties Who Are Nice tempts the viewer with desire for a stolen tactile moment with the objects.

This exhibition presents “pretty little art from pretty little women” to illustrate the charged weight of material and object. Engaging with organic and constructed materials, the artists in Cuties Who Are Nice explore the unfamiliarity into what we think we already know. Working in ‘domestic spaces,’ simple objects such as a bedroom, a love letter, or a curtain expose the truth of their strangeness and abnormality. Cuties Who Are Nice celebrates the strength, ability, and contributions of four female artists who subvert attitudes and behaviours in their work.


 



Installation view with Body Double (2019) and photographic diptych, Of my prescence as if catching a stranger’s wave (2019). 













Body Double (2019), Illness and Objecthood. Cast plaster, concrete, resin, and silicone; pigment, fishnet stockings, wood, paint. 55 x 80 x 38 inches

Of my prescence as if catching a stranger’s wave (2019), Illness and Objecthood. Archival inkjet prints. Framed diptych,18 x 22 inches and 22 x 32 inches

Bound up in white fishnet (2019), from Illness and Objecthood. Archival inkjet print. Framed, 26 x 38 inches










































Detail of Body Double (2019), from Hudspith’s Illness and Objecthood in Cuties Who Are Nice. 














Of my prescence as if catching a stranger’s wave (2019).










©Laura Hudspith