Tearjerker: Brokeback Mountain
Tearjerker: Brokeback Mountain is a special exhibition created by Ucross Fellow Natalie Woodlock and is on view at the Raymond Plank Center by appointment.
Originally from Australia, Natalie is a printmaker who explores queer temporality, subculture, and representation within popular culture in her work. In this exhibition, she explores the impact a piece of media can have on one’s emotions. Tearjerker films are designed to evoke sadness and create ritual spaces for catharsis and release. This can transform spaces, such as cinemas, into a site of communal exchange between audience members.
For Tearjerker: Brokeback Mountain, Natalie showed a series of screenings of Ang Lee's 2005 film Brokeback Mountain, adapted from the 1997 short story by Ucross Fellow — and Pulitzer Prize winner — Annie Proulx. During the film, audience members were given handkerchiefs for their tears and asked to write down the scenes that made them cry. This exhibition merges screen-printed illustrations of these scenes and the handkerchiefs embroidered with the names of those brought to tears by this film that tells stories about love, repression, money, and mortality.
If you are interested in purchasing any of Natalie's pieces, please contact the Ucross Art Gallery Associate, Lacasa Michelena, at [email protected] or 307-737-2291. Delivery and pickup options are available.
The Ucross Art Gallery is open Monday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Originally from Australia, Natalie is a printmaker who explores queer temporality, subculture, and representation within popular culture in her work. In this exhibition, she explores the impact a piece of media can have on one’s emotions. Tearjerker films are designed to evoke sadness and create ritual spaces for catharsis and release. This can transform spaces, such as cinemas, into a site of communal exchange between audience members.
For Tearjerker: Brokeback Mountain, Natalie showed a series of screenings of Ang Lee's 2005 film Brokeback Mountain, adapted from the 1997 short story by Ucross Fellow — and Pulitzer Prize winner — Annie Proulx. During the film, audience members were given handkerchiefs for their tears and asked to write down the scenes that made them cry. This exhibition merges screen-printed illustrations of these scenes and the handkerchiefs embroidered with the names of those brought to tears by this film that tells stories about love, repression, money, and mortality.
If you are interested in purchasing any of Natalie's pieces, please contact the Ucross Art Gallery Associate, Lacasa Michelena, at [email protected] or 307-737-2291. Delivery and pickup options are available.
The Ucross Art Gallery is open Monday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
