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About the Gallery
MARCH is a curatorial platform and gallery operating at the intersection of visual art and social justice. Founded in October 2020 by Phillip March Jones, the gallery presents artworks in a variety of formats and settings — online, in collaboration with other institutions, and at off-site locations — with the aim of amplifying the voices and showcasing the talents of under-recognized artists.
About the presentation
MARCH’s solo exhibition focuses on drawings by the New Zealand artist Susan Te Kahurangi King. Susan Te Kahurangi King: Character Development presents a taxonomy of figures that appear in a single large multimedia work from 2017. The artist’s drawings of Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Bugs Bunny, Cruella de Vil, and Jiminy Cricket will be installed in dialogue with this larger work to demonstrate King’s use of classic characters as building blocks for decades of invention. Many of King’s works employ characters that she has dissolved, abstracted, dissected, and reconstituted over the years. The resulting drawings are familiar but private meditations on color, form, line, and identity.
Susan Te Kahurangi King, Untitled, ink on found paper, with pre-existing Disney transfers applied by sibling c.1970s, reworked June 16-20, 2017, 20 3/4 x 25 1/4 inches, courtesy the artist, MARCH, and The Susan Te Kahurangi Trust.
