“Why have there been so few great male artists?” Canon in Drag imagines a Western art canon that evolved in a fictional world where the patriarchy never existed. It includes a series of paintings in the styles of iconic works, subverted through gender flipping and altered narratives. It asks: what would our world look like if we grounded it in a different set of origin stories? In response, it evokes a dramatic and self-conscious performance of gender and a re-envisioning of the so-called “Canon” of art history.

SLAG & RX Galleries are pleased to announce an exhibition of artwork by the late South Carolina artist Jerry Walden. This exhibition will feature four hard-edged minimal and one figurative acrylic painting from the early 1970s and 15 hard-edged acrylic on canvas or panel paintings of the artist's late career from the 2010s.