Caroline Coon: The Great Offender’s first solo exhibition
//World Hotel Room from The Brothel Series, Caroline Coon 1998, Oil on canvas, 122 x 153cm. Photo: Richard Holttum//
“For this solo exhibition to happen in the same year that we celebrate 100 years since some women were legally considered human and therefore entitled to vote is deeply significant for me. The formation of my feminist project always meant that I needed to be a figurative painter – this made me, right from the start as an art student in the late 1960s, a ‘girl’ outlaw in the then Greenbergian-ruled art establishment. I am what Linda Nochlin called, in her 1973 essay, a Realist Criminal.” Caroline Coon, 2018
Liverpool’s The Gallery is staging yet another must-see exhibition: the first solo show by painter, writer, thinker and countercultural figurehead Caroline Coon.
Entitled Caroline Coon: The Great Offender, it is curated by Martin Green and James Lawler, who have selected 29 of Coon’s works and are mounting the show as part of their ‘Perpetual Provocateurs’ 2018 season.
This will include individuals who, in Green’s and Lawler’s words, “have bought rebellion to the fore”. Expect shows of work at The Gallery later this year by photographer Peter Ashworth, fashion designer Pam Hogg and graphic artist David Edward Byrd.
Threesome, the exhibition curated by Anna McNay in which painters Sadie Lee, Roxana Halls and Sarah Jane Moon consider the female gaze, will also be staged at The Gallery as part of the season.
Caroline Coon: The Great Offender runs from May 3 – 27 at 41 Stanhope Street, Liverpool L8 5RE. More details here.