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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE


THE THINGS WE DO FOR LOVE
New work from the Love Art Laboratory; Elizabeth Stephens and Annie Sprinkle

A multi-media installation at Femina Potens Art Gallery



November 10- November 29, 2006

Reception and opening: November 10th, 7 - 10pm



Femina Potens Gallery
465 S. Van Ness at 16th st

San Francisco,CA.

415-217-9340

www.feminapotens.com



San Francisco, California--Elizabeth Stephens and Annie Sprinkle are two artists in love who collaborate in the grand tradition of other artist couples such as Yoko and John, Sony and Cher, Gertrude and Alice, Sigfried and Roy and Matthew Barney and Bjork.



Concerned with the prevalence of violence, moral divisiveness, and the anti-gay marriage movement, Stephens and Sprinkle decided to offer society an alternative vision and to spread their love through art. On December 18th, 2004 they had an experimental performance art wedding where they committed to doing all kinds of art projects about love for seven years. Each of the seven years is based on the theme and color of a chakra. (A format offered by artist Linda Montano.) Thus they became each other's domestic partners, art muses and collaborators, and their "Love Art Laboratory" was born. They then began producing a wide variety of "Love Art" projects. Currently they are almost two years into their project.



On view at Femina Potens will be new art works, and ephemera from their live art events. Such as when they got breast cancer they created the world's first cancer erotica, Hairotica. They dressed up for chemotherapy and created a series of photos, the Chemo Fashion Show. They made collages from the radiation treatment plans and some old pin-up photos to create the Breast Cancer Ballet. Their Extreme Kiss can be viewed on multiple TV monitors. Their new art catalogue which can be enjoyed at a reading table. Orange Wedding Two's wedding costumes will be on display along with a 5-minute video of their wedding. Art fans can get a "love infusion" by sitting in the Love Infusion Center. New projects are developing at a rapid pace.

After two successful San Francisco runs of their theater piece Exposed; Experiments in Love, Sex, Death and Art last summer, which they wrote and performed together, they then turned their attentions towards making visual art. Femina Potens is their first solo exhibition of visual art from the Love Art Laboratory.





Elizabeth M. Stephens is an Associate Professor of Art at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Stephens is an intermedia artist who works in sculpture, video installation, photography, web based media and performance art. Her most recent works include the bronze sculptural installation, The Academic/Porn Star Panty Collection; the road trip performance piece Wish You Were Here; the video installation, Kiss; as well as her ongoing collaboration with Annie Sprinkle in the Love Art Laboratory. She has exhibited in museums and galleries throughout the United States, Europe and Russia. See more of her work at elizabethstephens.org
Annie M. Sprinkle, in a former life, was a porn actress, pin up model, and proud prostitute for twenty years. She then became a performance artist and toured one woman shows about her life in the sex industry to many countries. Her shows, Post Porn Modernist, and Annie Sprinkle's Herstory of Porn toured the world for years to great acclaim. She is often invited to lecture about her work at Universities. Annie Sprinkle is the first porn actress to earn a Ph.D. Her new book, Dr. Sprinkle's Spectacular Sex_Make Over Your Love Life was published by Penguin last year. See anniesprinkle.org for more juicy details.

The Love Art Laboratory, is the collaborative team of Stephens and Sprinkle. They been touring and performing in their theater piece, Exposed; Experiments in Love, Sex, Death and Art, in Europe and the USA. Their art works have been included in many group shows around the world. They live and work together in Bernal Heights with their black Lab, Bob and harem of Mormon girls. Sprinkle and Stephens share the progress of their seven years of love art with the public on their website www.loveartlab.org-- the virtual home of the Love Art Laboratory.

For additional information or interviews, please do call Elizabeth Stephens, or Annie Sprinkle. 10 AM til 9 PM. --415-550-7409

Check out their other web sites; and anniesprinkle.org.

Femina Potens is open Thursday - Sunday, 12:00 til 6:00.
tororo:
Best luck to Femina Potens gallery, and success for the installation!
Nov 11, 2006
fox:
Why aren't you coming to the sg sleepover this weekend?
Nov 15, 2006

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