Gallery 101 proudly presents: Finding Ana A solo exhibition by Elise Rasmussen Curated by Laura Margita Opening, premier screening of Variations and roundtable discussion Saturday January 4 from 2 – 5pm Finding Ana investigates the complexities of Ana Mendieta’s personal and professional life. For the round table discussion we will discuss why this history is important now. Threads of discussion will address the continued disproportionate representation of women in art institutions, the documentary image as art object and issues of defining authorship. Elise Rasmussen, Clara Halpern and Erin Stump will participate in the discussion. Elise Rasmussen received her BFA from Ryerson University (2004) and her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2007) as a Merit Scholar. Elise has had solo shows at the Elizabeth Sackler Center for Feminist Art at the Brooklyn Museum (NY), Agape Enterprise (NY), Night Gallery (LA), AC Institute (NY) and ESP (Toronto). She has exhibited in group shows at the CCS Bard Hessel Museum (Annandale-on-Hudson), Galerie Articule (Montreal), Standpoint Gallery (London), Mulherin Pollard Projects (New York), Werkschauhalle Gallery (Leipzig), the Chicago Cultural Center (Chicago), Gallery 400 (Chicago) and ThreeWalls Gallery (Chicago). The artist wishes to gratefully acknowledge the support of the Canada Council For the Arts for this project. Clara Halpern is a curator and writer based in New York and Toronto, who received an MA from the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College. She has been a visiting critic at Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture and Hunter College’s MFA program, and was part of the team for Sarah Sze's "Triple Point" at the U.S. Pavilion of the 2013 Venice Biennale. Recently, she was a Critical Writing Fellow at Recess and she is a regular contributor to Modern Painters. Erin Stump: http://www.erinstumpprojects.com/