Jamey Braden: SHE _________ THE _________

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Jamey Braden, "Cloaca," nd

mixed media

Opening Thursday, May 18, 8pm

Wednesday, June 14, 7pm: Artist's tour for UNIT/PITT members. Join Jamey Braden and Kay Higgins for a tour of the exhibition, and some bonus extras. To become a member, sign up here.

Friday, June 16, 7pm: A screening of Ulrike Meinhof's sole film production, Bambule. Set in a prison for young women, the screenplay was written by Meinhof based on an earlier radio drama she had written, and produced as a film to be screened on West German television. prior to the screening date, Meinhof went underground with the Red Army Faction and the film was quietly shelved. Running time is 90 minutes, and admission is free.

Friday, June 23, 7pm: a screening of Variety, a 1983 film directed by Bette Gordon, with a screenplay by Kathy Acker (based on a story by Bette Gordon). A young woman takes a job selling tickets in a porn cinema and becomes discomfortingly involved in the lives of patrons. When Variety was initially released, it appeared as a dark, problematic counterpoint to the celebratory character of Lizzie Borden's Born In Flames, which was also released that year. Running time is 97 minutes, and admission is free.

Friday, June 30, 7pm: Jamey Braden's book launch. We will be launching an artist's book, also titled SHE _________ THE _________, and we'll also have a closing party of sorts for the end of the exhibition.

Also: Watch street kiosks in Vancouver for poster-sized works by Jamey Braden during the next few weeks.

SHE ______ THE ______ is an exhibition of paintings from a feminist unconscious. Using automatic writing, and painting on unstretched, unsized canvas, Jamey Braden creates pointed statements that nevertheless admit a measure of ambiguity. The result is text-based works that simultaneously confront, confound, implicate, and involve the viewer.

Jamey Braden is an artist engaged with non-idiomatic improvisational making processes for creating material, text-based, and performative works.  Prioritizing impulse and surrealist principles of automatism, her works reach for release while often diverting into comedic territories. She received her MFA from the University of British Columbia in 2015.