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            <text>January 30 - March 12, 2016</text>
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            <text>&lt;a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/143"&gt;Dillon de Give&lt;/a&gt;</text>
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            <text>Jacqueline Hoàng Nguyễn</text>
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            <text>Leisure (Meredith Carruthers &amp; Susannah Wesley)</text>
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            <text>Lise Haller Baggesen</text>
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            <text>The Let Down Reflex is an exhibition that attempts to recognize the complexities of parenting in the art world, and asks if a better alternative for families can exist. Calling out a slippage in today’s feminist art world, the curators summon a group of artist-parents to contribute to a springboard for re-imagining an art world where “Mom” is not a demeaning characterization, where childcare is factored in for participating artists at art spaces, and where artists aren’t forced to choose between home and work because of a lack of parental leave. The “let down reflex,” a term referencing the involuntary reflex that causes nursing mothers to produce breast milk, takes on a double meaning in this exhibition, referring here to the reflexive tendency of letting down parents, and particularly mothers, within the flawed labor system of the art world.</text>
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            <text>&lt;a href="http://www.projectspace-efanyc.org/the-let-down-reflex/" target="_blank"&gt;http://www.projectspace-efanyc.org/the-let-down-reflex/&lt;/a&gt;</text>
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