GIRLS’ NIGHT OUT
INTERNATIONAL GROUP OF ARTISTS EXPLORE NEW PERSPECTIVES ON FEMALE IDENTITY

September 14, 2003 – January 25, 2004
ORANGE COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART

Central to Girls' Night Out is the idea of “the girl," which reflects another generational shift. In a culture in which significant gains in gender equity have been achieved, strict adherence to the feminist ideology of the past has given way to new portrayals of women. The artists in the exhibition focus on girls and women in self-conscious and transcendent moments irrespective of “political correctness.” ....next>>>

foto: Katy Grannan. Dee, Redhook, NY, 2003
Gelatin silver print. 20 x 16 inces (50.8 x 40.64 cm). Courtesy of the artist and Artemis Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, New York

Katy Grannan creates portraits that engage a variety of related fields, including fine art, journalism, and fashion. With sitters she finds through small-town newspaper ads, Grannan’s portraits are remarkably sensitive and intimate, staged in the collaboration with the sitter, with an approach that has been described as “pseudo-documentary.”