Opening Reception: Friday, June 13, 5-8pm
Evan Feldman
Director
efeldman@gpgallery.com
Gerald Peters Contemporary is pleased to present its first exhibition of the 2025 summer season, Material Girl: Pop Culture and the Female Gaze. Bringing together six female artists working across media, the exhibition will highlight the connections between the artists’ personal histories and social, political, and cultural realities of today.
Anchored in Pop Art, the exhibition explores how these artists use the genre’s vocabulary of familiar imagery, bold colors, and ready-made objects to examine socio-political concerns. Probing gender, sexuality, materialism, and commodification, these works offer profound personal introspection and keen societal awareness.
Angela Ellsworth (b. 1964) is a multidisciplinary artist based in the southwestern United States, working primarily in painting, drawing, sculpture, and performance. Her solo and collaborative works engage diverse subjects including physical fitness, endurance, illness, social ritual, and religious tradition—examining how ritual, myth, and tradition move across cultures and generations.
Spanning historical research and contemporary themes, Ellsworth draws on personal history to highlight both mystical and physical forms of knowing. Her work navigates bodily and metaphysical realms, referencing rituals passed down through generations alongside her Utah upbringing to expand notions of the invisible and unknown.
As a feminist, Ellsworth reimagines groups of women from her polygamist ancestry as a lens through which to explore her own contemporary homosocial experiences. She is particularly interested in the convergence of art and everyday life, where public and private experiences collide in unexpected and transformative ways
Angela Ellsworth
Stand Back, Untitled 1 (Still from performance Stand Back), Phoenix Art Museum 2011
archival pigment print
29 3/4 × 44 3/4 inches
Photographer: Troy Aossey
Angela Ellsworth
Untitled 3 (Still from Performance, Stand Back), 1/5 2011
archival pigment print
29 3/4 × 44 3/4 inches Photographer: Troy Aossey
Angela Ellsworth
Leaving Loves Company 2011
Cowhide, rabbit fur, steel, and graphite on wood
48 x 108 x 60 inches
Angela Ellsworth
Lady Ties for a Line Dance 2011
Linen, thread, brass, and artificial hair
96 x 84 inches (installed dimensions)
Angela Ellsworth
Lady Ties for a Line Dance (detail) 2011
Linen, thread, brass, and artificial hair
96 x 84 inches (installed dimensions)
Angela Ellsworth
Untitled (Tools of Translation, Still from Performance Compounded), 1/5 2009
archival c-print, 8 x 10 inches
Angela Ellsworth
Untitled (Hair Closer to God, Still from Performance "Compounded"), 1/5 2009
archival c-print, 8 x 10 inches
Angela Ellsworth
Untitled (Strap-On Braids, Still from Performance "Compounded"), 1/5 2009
archival c-print, 8 x 10 inches
