Opening night of “Sex. Money. Race. Gender.” will involve coloring, games, on-camera interviews, and revising historical documents. At least that’s what the audience will be doing. The artists, all members of the Ladydrawers Comics Collective, will be hula hooping, performing stand-up comedy, collaborating on a mural, and acting out a live-action comic.
The work in “Sex. Money. Race. Gender.,” Moore says, ranges from “didactic to weird.” It includes Cash Kitty, a photography project by Melissa Gira Grant in which sex workers take pictures of the money they make alongside their pets; captions contain information on what the money was spent on. Throughout the month the show is up, four Chicago artists (Polly Yates, Elliott Junkyard, Danielle Chenette, and Sarah Bell) collaborate on The Wall of the Unknown, a mural that explores sex and gender. Labor, an installation in the gallery’s front window by Elizabeth White, documents ways in which the collective’s artists supported themselves while preparing work for the exhibit, such as child care, retail, and sex work.
Reception Thu 6/27, 5-8 PM. Through 7/27, A+D Gallery, Columbia College, 619 S. Wabash, colum.edu/ADGallery. Free.
