“MIMI lights a cigarette on the stove. Sex kitten half-naked. 22. Alcoholic. Contemporary conwoman. Maintains her lazy lifestyle through freeloading. Always looking for a way in and a way out.”

-Character Description by Lauren Cook

Marking the conclusion of Michelle Uckotter’s BOFFO Residency, she will present Coney Island, an exhibition of new paintings, video, and installation at the historic Carrington House in the Fire Island Pines. Coney Island will be on view Saturday, May 30th & Sunday, May 31st from 12 – 6pm. Please join BOFFO and the artist for a reception on Saturday May 30th from 6 – 8pm. To visit the exhibition enter the Carrington House from the gate located at the corner of Ocean Walk and Sandy Walk. The exhibition and reception are free and open to the public. Please RSVP.

Michelle Uckotter is an artist working within painting, sculpture, and video. Her work explores the boundaries of the femininity as sites of both desire and destruction. In her world, femininity is unstable, slipping between performance and erasure, violence and becoming. Like the experience of womanhood itself, her scenes resist resolution, caught in the tension between transformation and the structures that seek to contain it. The structure is on the verge of collapse.