Parallel Practices: Joan Jonas & Gina Pane : THE CONTEMPORARY ARTS MUSEUM HOUSTON

23 March - 30 June 2013

Parallel Practices: Joan Jonas & Gina Pane brings together a selection of works by two artists born a short time apart who are renowned for their foundational contributions to the field of performance art. Jonas and Pane were proto-feminist artists, working in New York and Paris respectively, who worked multidisciplinarily at a time when many of their peers focused their attentions on a single medium. Through selections of their sculpture, photography, video, drawing, installation, and live arts, Parallel Practices celebrates the shared and complementary aspects of Jonas’ and Pane’s art, and highlights the differences that characterize their unique bodies of work. Parallel Practices also marks the first comprehensive exhibition of Gina Pane’s work in the United States.