Self-Portrait in Rice Paper, acquired by the Feminist Art Collection and exhibited as part of WE WON'T COMPETE, at the Art Gallery of Windsor (April 23 – September 21, 2014). 

Artists included: Abstract Random, Sonja Ahlers, Eleanor Bond, Allyson Clay, Erika DeFreitas, Servulo Esmeraldo, Andrew Harwood, Jesi The Elder, Hannah Jickling, Margaret Lawrence, Rita Letendre, Johnson Ngo, Bodo Pfeifer, Adee Roberson, Arthur Secunda, Fiona Smyth

What FAG is:
FAG is a response, a process, a site, a protest, an outcry, an exhibition platform, an economy, a framework, and an opportunity. We host, we fund, we advocate, we support and we claim. FAG is located in Toronto, Canada and is run by artists Allyson Mitchell and Deirdre Logue.

WE WON'T COMPETE is the second articulation of FAG's Feminist Art Collection and is comprised of collected art works as well as materials and documentation from social sculptures and happenings at the FAG over the past four years.

WE CAN'T COMPETE/WE WON'T COMPETE
WE CAN'T KEEP UP/WE WON'T KEEP DOWN

These statements are an acknowledgement of the dilemmas of feminist and queer cultural participation and describe the all too familiar push/pull of working across discourses and converging dialogues. - Deirdre Logue and Allyson Mitchell (excerpted from their curatorial text. For more, click here).

Installation images by Frank Piccolo