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SOGTFO: Curated by Charlie White, 2245 E Washington Blvd., Los Angeles,

February 28 - April 11, 2015
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SOGTFO: Curated by Charlie White

Past exhibition
February 28 - April 11, 2015 2245 E Washington Blvd., Los Angeles
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Andrea Zittel Flat Field Work #1, 2015 Fir plywood, acx plywood, tung oil, black enamel paint, 4 hand woven wool textiles, 3 canvas tarps, 20 plywood panels painted with enamel paint, commercial carpet, found wool blanket, watercolor on paper
Andrea Zittel
Flat Field Work #1, 2015
Fir plywood, acx plywood, tung oil, black enamel paint, 4 hand woven wool textiles, 3 canvas tarps, 20 plywood panels painted with enamel paint, commercial carpet, found wool blanket, watercolor on paper

SOGTFO (Sculpture Or Get The Fuck Out) is a critical play on the misogynistic acronym TOGTFO (Tits Or Get The Fuck Out), a prompt directed at anyone claiming to be female within online boards, chats, and forums. This prompt, which bridges "accepted" adolescent immaturity and the most menacing forms of misogyny, points to the pernicious "made by and for men" sentiment that persists in cultural realms both high and low.

Under such hegemonic primacy, male artists tend to be elevated far above their female peers, and the notion of genius is largely reserved for men. This bias resides most resolutely in the discourse surrounding the practice of sculpture, in which an emphasis on grandeur functions as the new phallus of nations, churning out massive works for even more massive sales floors, collections, and institutions.

This exhibition argues against the predominantly patriarchal imagination that has defined sculptural form, and it aims to reveal the energy, intensity, and originality being forged by artists who exchange the emptiness of grand gestures for complexity, criticality, humor, and meaningful gravitas. 

Without discrediting or disregarding history, the exhibition makes a case in and for the present—a time when the market has nearly consumed every aspect of the maker—by turning our attention to five contemporary artists whose gestures in form embody the now and point to the new in Sculpture. Spanning three generations, the show introduces emerging artists Kelly Akashi, Nevine Mahmoud, and Kathleen Ryan, alongside established artists Andrea Zittel and Amanda Ross-Ho, illustrating a shift in mentorship and aesthetic lineage that argues against longstanding—and all-too-gendered—systems of artistic valuation and authority.

SOGTFO is curated by Charlie White, with accompanying texts by Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer and Charlie White.

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Installation Views
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Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Sogtfo Installation 3 2015
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Works
  • Andrea Zittel, Flat Field Work #1, 2015
    Andrea Zittel, Flat Field Work #1, 2015
  • Kelly Akashi, Figure oO, 2015
    Kelly Akashi, Figure oO, 2015
  • Amanda Ross-Ho, Untitled Sculpture (ONCE U GO BLACK), 2015
    Amanda Ross-Ho, Untitled Sculpture (ONCE U GO BLACK), 2015
  • Amanda Ross-Ho, Untitled Still Life (TARNISHED DIAMOND), 2014
    Amanda Ross-Ho, Untitled Still Life (TARNISHED DIAMOND), 2014
  • Kathleen Ryan, Light, 2015
    Kathleen Ryan, Light, 2015
  • Kathleen Ryan, Gift for a Gentleman, 2015
    Kathleen Ryan, Gift for a Gentleman, 2015
  • Nevine Mahmoud, Tied chunks with color box, 2015
    Nevine Mahmoud, Tied chunks with color box, 2015
  • Nevine Mahmoud, Tunnel chunk with color plane, 2015
    Nevine Mahmoud, Tunnel chunk with color plane, 2015
  • Kelly Akashi, Ring, 2015
    Kelly Akashi, Ring, 2015
  • Kelly Akashi, Harvest, 2015
    Kelly Akashi, Harvest, 2015
  • Nevine Mahmoud, Basketball, 2014
    Nevine Mahmoud, Basketball, 2014
  • Nevine Mahmoud, Magic 8, 2015
    Nevine Mahmoud, Magic 8, 2015
  • Nevine Mahmoud, Beachball, 2015
    Nevine Mahmoud, Beachball, 2015
  • Kathleen Ryan, Bacchante, 2015
    Kathleen Ryan, Bacchante, 2015
  • Nevine Mahmoud, O, 2015
    Nevine Mahmoud, O, 2015
  • Kelly Akashi, Spiral Knot (Ring), 2015
    Kelly Akashi, Spiral Knot (Ring), 2015
  • Amanda Ross-Ho, Untitled Still Life (UNDERSTANDING YOUR BODY), 2014
    Amanda Ross-Ho, Untitled Still Life (UNDERSTANDING YOUR BODY), 2014
Press
  • SOGTFO (Sculpture or Get the Fuck Out)

    Andrew Berardini, ArtReview, August 26, 2015
  • “SOGTFO”

    Kate Sutton, ArtForum, June 1, 2015
  • SOGTFO at François Ghebaly

    Jonathan Griffin, CARLA, April 20, 2015
  • Women’s Work: Considering Feminist Art Through Three Recent Shows

    Natalie Hegert, Artcritical, April 2, 2015
  • Women at Work

    Hunter Drohojowska-Philp, KCRW, March 26, 2015
  • "An Argument"

    Charlie White, February 28, 2015
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