Episode 32: Penny Slinger, Tuesday, April 5th, 2022
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Penny Slinger, photo: Bill Brown
Penny Slinger (b. 1947, London, UK) is a Los Angeles-based artist who has been exploring feminism, eroticism and mysticism in her art for over fifty years. Her early work was inspired by Surrealism, she went on to study and incorporate Tantra into her life and work. In her years in the Caribbean she studied and portrayed the pre-Columbian indigenous culture of the region. She continues to work in many mediums including collage, photography, drawing, sculpture/assemblage, performance arts and video, focusing on the liberation of the feminine.
Solo exhibits include: Set design Dior Haute Couture show, Avenue Montaigne, Paris, Tantric Transformations, Richard Saltoun Gallery, London, Penny Slinger, Blum & Poe Gallery, Tokyo, Penny Slinger, Blum & Poe Gallery, Los Angeles, Self Impressions, Hear What I Say & A Photo Romance Riflemaker Gallery, London, Exorcism Revisited, Broadway 1602 Gallery, New York, Inner Vision, Patrick Seale Gallery, London, Opening & Penny Slinger, Angela Flowers Gallery, London.
Group exhibits include: The Enchanted Interior, Guildhall, London, Cut and Paste – 400 Years of Collage, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, Scotland, Visible Women, Norwich Castle Museum & Art Gallery, Norwich, Virginia Woolf: An Exhibition Inspired by Her Writings, Tate St Ives, Cornwall, Dreamers Awake, White Cube Gallery, London, Room, Sadie Coles, London, Sex Work: Feminist Art & Radical Politics, curated by Alison M. Gingeras, Frieze London, Blum and Poe, The Feminist Avant-Garde of the 1970s Hamburg Kunsthalle, History is Now: 7 Artists Take on Britain, Hayward Gallery, London, Woman, Bozar Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels, Lips Painted Red, Trondheim Kunstmuseum, Trondheim, Norway, The Dark Monarch, Tate Gallery, St Ives, Angels of Anarchy, women Surrealists, Manchester Art Museum, Young and Fantastic, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London.
She is currently represented by Blum and Poe, LA and Richard Saltoun, London.
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