Open Call: Maryam Hoseini and Phoebe Derlee

JUN 19 – AUG 25, 2019
A curatorial project conceptually framing the work of Suzanne Valadon, one of the most famous female painters of 19th-century France
Maryam Hoseini and Phoebe d’Heurle, She Models for Her, 2019. Photo: Lily Wan.
An installation photo of Maryam Hoseini and Phoebe d'Heurle's commission for Open Call
Maryam Hoseini and Phoebe d’Heurle, She Models for Her, 2019. Photo: Lily Wan.

About this commission

In She Models For Her, Hoseini and Derlee imagine a way of engaging with other artists across time by bringing together artworks by artists from today and past decades. She Models For Her contextualizes the work of Suzanne Valadon—a 19th-century French painter who began as a model and became one of the most famous female painters of her time—with work by Hoseini and Derlee and other historical and contemporary paintings, photographs, and sculptures from artists Emma Amos, Anne Cousineau, Zackary Drucker + A.L. Steiner, Hadi Fallahpisheh, Rosa Loy, Lucas Samaras, Diane Simpson, and Dorothea Tanning. In juxtaposing these works, She Models For Her explores the complex entanglements between representational art and daily life.
Biography
Maryam Hoseini and Phoebe d’Heurle are artists living and working in Brooklyn. Their collaborative work troubles the boundaries between fixed genres and set authorship.

Location and dates

This event takes place in Level 2 Gallery.

Acknowledgments

The artists would like to thank Emma Amos, Anne Cousineau, Hadi Fallahpisheh, Rosa Loy, Lucas Samaras, Diane Simpson, A. L. Steiner. They would also like to thank Mary Ryan Gallery, Kohn Gallery, Pace Gallery, J.T.T. Gallery, and The Destina Foundation. They would also like to thank Allison Cooper, Pam Johnson, Erin Dorn, and Catherine Lord for their support and guidance.
In The Works