THE PERSONAL IS POLITICAL: MARTHA WILSON AND MKE Opens Today at Portrait Society Gallery

Martha Wilson's career encapsulates the contestations inherent in feminist and socially engaged practices. In her work and throughout her life, Wilson has explored how identity is not just self-defined or projected, but also negotiated. This survey exhibition encompasses forty years of her activities as an artist creating performances, videos, and photographs; her position as the founder and director of the non-profit space Franklin Furnace; her collaboration with other women to form the art/rock group, DISBAND; and her key role in the activist feminist art group, the Guerrilla Girls. A concurrent exhibition "The Personal is Political: Martha Wilson and MKE" will be on view at the Portrait Society Gallery, opening today, June 7, with an artists reception that Friday from 5 to 8 p.m., with an artists talk at 7 p.m.

Martha Wilson is a traveling exhibition organized and circulated by Independent Curators International (ICI), New York. Guest curator for the exhibition is Peter Dykhuis. The exhibition, tour and catalogue are made possible in part by the National Endowment for the Arts, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, The Cowles Charitable Trust, the ICI Board of Trustees and ICI Benefactors Barbara and John Robinson.

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Location: 2155 N. Prospect Ave., Milwaukee, WI. Gallery Hours: Wednesday-Sunday 12-5pm and Thursdays 12-8pm.