Erica Rutherford, a groundbreaking transgender painter, filmmaker and writer, is the first Prince Edward Island artist to ever be selected for the prestigious Venice Biennale art show.Erica Rutherford in her studio around 1970. A map of Prince Edward Island is posted on the left upper corner of the wall. Erica Rutherford — a groundbreaking transgender painter, filmmaker and writer — is the first Prince Edward Island artist to ever be selected for the prestigious Venice Biennale art show.
Rubber Maids by Erica Rutherford, from 1970. It is one of the paintings being exhibited at the Venice Biennale. "It was a lifetime preoccupation for her, feeling that she was not living the right gender," she said."I think they're her imagining herself becoming a woman. And she's posing often in sort of very glamorous outfits," Wendt said.Seeing those gender identity issues reflected in Rutherford's work is not a surprise, said Erika Warren, a transgender artist living in Charlottetown.
The paintings in the Biennale are done in a pop art style, he said, and feature hard edges and saturated colours. "She was an artist who was kind of a restless explorer of herself, really. She used her work as a way of working through her own issues and her relationship to the world."
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