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12.26 Los Angeles is pleased to present waiting on tenterhooks, a three-person exhibition that brings together Antonia Brown, Martina Cox, and Vera Iliatova.
waiting on tenterhooks explores the delicate tension between anticipation and transformation. The phrase, drawn from the now-antiquated use of hooked nails to stretch and hold cloth taut, evokes the nervous suspense of waiting – likened here to the simultaneous longing and confinement woven into the fabric of girlhood and womanhood for centuries. This feeling of anticipation is central to the presentation, as it reconciles the naïve yearning of adolescence, with the historical constraints imposed on the female body.
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Part of ‘Gum:Scale,’ a group show curated by Anna Frost, Jack Chiles Gallery, April 30th 2022
A polaroid camera is attached to the hem of a dress, creating a double meaning to the term ‘Flash Photography.’ This is the first experiment in an ongoing series of flash photography garments to be worn in various spaces: both public and private.
Part of ‘Merde!’ a gala and auction presented by Alyssa Davis Gallery
Made from a 19th Century Bustle, wire, beads
Viola Hart’s sweet little bottom feeder is made from a 19th Century bustle owned by the actress Viola Hart. A bustle is a padded undergarment coined as such and popularized in the second halfof the 19th century, and was used to support and hold up the many layers of heavy skirts required of women’s dress at the time. The bustle also created a pronounced hump shape at the woman’s rear that protruded to horizontal extremes by the 1880s (1)
(1) Eicher, Joanne Bubolz, ed. Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010 http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/767923552