Vaginal Davis, "HAG–small, contemporary, haggard"

Davis, the irrepressible performer, painter, independent curator, composer, writer and Queercore movement member, presents her first major solo exhibition of visual art. On view are paintings of "women trapped in women's bodies," done in tempera and makeup, as well as totemic bread sculptures the artist describes as a cross between the monuments of Easter Island and the paleolithic Venus of Willendorf. The show is a tribute to the HAG Gallery in Los Angeles, which Davis ran between 1982 and 1989, and which featured works by such nonartists as John Drew Barrymore, the alcoholic, drug-addled son of stage and screen star John Barrymore and father of Drew Barrymore.