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...exhibit also contains works which are more ambiguous, such as Amy Wilson's photograph of "Gynecare," in which a woman holds up a mirror to reflect the medical instruments protruding from a patient's vagina. In fact, an explicitly genital theme dominates thee exhibit, as manifested by Leone MacDonald's depiction of sexual organs in "Clitoris," "Vagina," and "Labia" with simple lines made with a branding iron...
...political element of this exhibit reaches full expression in many of these works, which set up the standard women-as-victim-of-male-objectification stereotype and critique it simultaneously. Mary Rhinelander's "Alphabet" challenges what it perceives to be womens' ingrained domestic and cosmetic roles with the sardonic statements "K is for Kitchen; L is for Lipstick." Lorna Simpson's screenprint of two high-healed shoes, entitled "Cure/Heal," and Debra Olin's Good Girl Measure Her Waist" also address this theme...
While "Power, Pleasure, and Pain" professes to represent a multiplicity or perspectives on femininity today, this exhibit nevertheless seems one-sided...
...strident attempt to assert the validity of more "alternative" definitions of feminity, the exhibit certainly lacks a perspective which addresses more "standard" sources of feminity such as motherhood or heterosexual love...
Rather than only featuring works which treat the female in isolation or in the negative terms of what she rejects in society, the exhibit would truly live up to its pluralistic billing if it included perspectives which explore the reconciliation to or integration of "femininity" into contemporary society...