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“The first truth is the form,” instructs a deadpan, disembodied male voice in Suzy Lake’s 1975 video The Natural Way to Draw, in which the artist, caked in a layer of white paint, shades lines and contours across her face, pausing briefly to take puffs of her cigarette.
Read MoreOne of the first things Suzy Lake did after moving to Montreal in 1968 from her native Detroit—a city whose fiery upheavals had recently jolted her into political consciousness—was enroll in mime school at the Théâtre de Quat’Sous.
Read MoreSuzy Lake, who was born in Detroit in 1947 and emigrated to Canada in the late 1960s, works with video and photography to confront feminist issues.
Read MoreThis influential feminist artist, who moved from Detroit to Canada in the late nineteen-sixties, makes her New York solo début with a powerful show of performance-based photographs and videos.
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Read MoreSince the early 1970’s Suzy Lake has been at the forefront of Canadian art, forming a prolific corpus that blends photography, conceptualism and performance.
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