Beaver is a multi-disciplinary exhibition event with video screening, performance, and discussion delving into contemporary feminist perspectives on po*******hy, gender performance, and female s*xual self-expression. This exhibition event, curated by artist Naomi Elena Ramirez with curatorial input from Kristen Korvette of the s*x positive feminist site Slutist.com, seeks to create discourse, awar
eness, and community. Through open calls for artists, each iteration of the Beaver exhibition brings together a different group of artists and individuals and has included readings by s*x workers, films about the stereotypes forced onto women of color, and visual art works that explore representation of the female form. Commitment to diverse representations of race, s*x, gender, s*xuality, and class is an essential component of our curatorial practice. Diversity extends to the multidisciplinary events, which include a variety of mediums and discussion, recognizing the various methods through which we communicate our differing perspectives on embodied experience. This exhibition event was inspired by artist Naomi Elena Ramirez’s work of the same name which interrogates p**n culture and female s*xual expression through dance and visual scores for the body. Curators:
Naomi Elena Ramirez is a multidisciplinary artist whose work embraces and fuses visual art, performance art, video art, and contemporary dance, and the process by which the different mediums can inform each other. As a visual artist, Naomi uses photography and drawing to record and choreograph movements and gestures of the body. Naomi has an MFA in Visual Art from Vermont College of Fine Arts and a BA in Dramatic Art/Dance from the University of California at Berkeley. Her work has been exhibited by Nurture Art Gallery, BRIC Contemporary Arts online exhibitions, Wallplay Gallery, Onomatopee Gallery, Eindhoven, the Netherlands; Arts@Renaissance; The Situation Room, Los Angeles; Gallery 107, North Adams, MA; Arte Nuevo InteractivA, Mérida, Mexico, Eugene Lang College, Northwestern University’s Graduate Student Performance Studies Conference In Bodies We Trust, New Voices in Live Performance at The Center for Performance Research, Movement Research, and Chez Bushwick, amongst others. She produces and curates Beaver an exhibition, performance, and discussion event that delves into contemporary feminist perspectives on po*******hy, gender performance, and female s*xual self-expression. She lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. www.naomielenaramirez.com (b. Hermosillo, Mexico)
Kristen Korvette is the founding editor of Slutist, a s*x positive feminist site that aims to uncover and undress the intersections between s*x, gender, s*xuality and feminism in art, pop culture, and politics. Previously, she served as Gallery Officer at Japan Society, and oversaw the installation of six contemporary and classical shows, including 2011’s Bye Bye Kitty!!! Art Critics Association Award for Best Show in a Non-Profit Gallery. She also teaches a class on 4th Wave Feminism at The New School.
