MWTH

Molly Zuckerman-Hartung, Fox Hysen, Amaryllis DeJesus Moleski, Dannielle Bowman, Este Puerta, Ilana Savdie, Terri Zupanc, Yo-E Ryou, Camille Altay, Bek Andersen, Luciano Garbati

MWTH (Medusa With The Head) is an artist-run pop-up exhibition entangled in the narrative habits of classical imaginaries, their foundational role in present culture and visions of the future. MWTH seeks to reorient androcentric lore, to queer iconography, and to reformulate antiquity’s heroic center and its modes of (re)production. Through stories that are told and retold over centuries, our iconography shapes our ideology.

MWTH Project was (immaculately) conceived by Bek Andersen in the immediate wake of the Kavanaugh hearings. The day Kavanaugh was confirmed to the highest court of the land, we were feeling pretty low. Bek came across the viral image of Medusa with the Head of Perseus by Luciano Garbati, an inversion of Cellini’s gruesome heroic sculpture Perseus With the Head of Medusa. She was inspired to contact the artist in Argentina and bring the life-sized sculpture into conversation with artists and artworks which examine roles of power in the performance of mythologies, new and old.

The unapologetically revisionist Garbati Medusa is on view IRL, alongside works by Molly Zuckerman-Hartung, Fox Hysen, Amaryllis DeJesus Moleski, Dannielle Bowman, Este Puerta, Ilana Savdie, Terri Zupanc, Yo-E Ryou, Camille Altay, and Bek Andersen. Johnathan Payne is our Gallery Educator.

Tarot walk-ins, numerology and body music therapy by Catherine Eberhardt.

Screenings and discussions of Joseph Campbell’s The Power of Myth + discussion with visiting artists each weekend.

MWTH editions begins with 100 signed and numbered 12” replicas of the Garbati Medusa, currently in production by sculptor Vanessa Solomon in Brooklyn. 10% of proceeds will go to the TIME’S UP Legal Defense Fund.