Inspired by the feminist masterpiece The Dinner Party by Judy Chicago, this exhibition featured artists who have risen above the narrow roles imposed on women and whose work has challenged the status quo, particularly within the canons of art history.
Inspired by feminist artist Miriam Schapiro, Reimagining Femmage invites the artist to draw upon the tenets she established.
For the exhibition, Lara Schnitger will transform the gallery into the headquarters of «Suffragette City,» her traveling hybrid procession - protest piece
inspired by feminist demonstrations throughout history.
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Inspired by a true story, the crackerjack crowd - pleaser «Made in Dagenham» dramatizes the factory walkout she led, turning this forgotten page in
feminist history into an inspirational joy.
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This exhibition seeks to redress this gap in the history of American art through an exploration of Schapiro's signature femmages, the term she coined to describe her distinctive hybrid of painting and collage
inspired by women's domestic arts and crafts and the
feminist critique of the hierarchy of art and craft.
An artist and activist, her bold 1960s paintings were
inspired by the civil rights and
feminist movements.
The exhibit title is
inspired by the book, «My Secret Garden», published in 1973
by sex positive
feminist author Nancy Friday who was instrumental in addressing taboos revolving around female sexuality in the early 70s and an important figure of the
feminist sexual liberation movement.
Using a process
inspired by the renowned
feminist art critic, Arlene Raven, students examined the reasons and context of their artistic production in order...
Earlier
feminists tackled grim and unfunny issues such as sexual violence,
inspiring the Guerrilla Girls to keep their spirits intact
by approaching their work with wit and laughter, thus preventing a backlash.
It's fascinating to think of Schapiro,
inspired by the discourse she was helping to create, doing these pieces when she was able to return to her studio after the intense period of working with the
feminist program on the Womanhouse project in the fall of 1971 and early winter of 1972, but before she had a name for this work, before «femmage» and «pattern and decoration» became movements and personal brands, with their declarative power but sometimes restrictive effect on art practice.
Inspired by DIY political posters, the new drawings are from the artist's ongoing series of
feminist graphics on cardboard supports.
Inspired by the outreach work of the Black Panther Party focused on illiteracy, poverty, and hunger;
feminist consciousness raising; and radical self - care initiatives, these projects take a holistic approach to self - preservation, thus preserving people and culture for posterity.
The workshop was
inspired by the pedagogy of
feminist art historian Arlene Raven.
Inspired by a process originated
by the renowned
feminist art critic, Arlene Raven, students examined the reasons and context of their artistic production in order to...
Presented
by The Untitled Space and Indira Cesarine, LIFEFORCE is
inspired by Donna Haraway's
feminist science fiction essay, A Cyborg Manifesto.
Inspired by Donna Haraway's essay, A Cyborg Manifesto, the
feminist science fiction and Afrofurturists of the 1970s; the exhibit will feature performance, sculpture, painting, comics, and photography that aim to re code normative expectations celebrating the LIFEFORCE that is beyond human matter and closer to it's essence.
Among many, some works of note include textile portraits of Frida Kahlo and Angela Davis
by Jess De Wahls, a painting
by Tara Lewis entitled, High School, that acts as an ode to millennial
feminists, and multimedia paintings
by Nichole Washington,
inspired by 90s female hip hop artists, such as Queen Latifah and Missy Elliot.
The exhibit title is
inspired by the book, «My Secret Garden», published in 1973
by sex positive
feminist author Nancy Friday who was instrumental in addressing taboos revolving around female sexuality in the early 70s, and was an important figure of the
feminist sexual liberation movement.
-- Nikolay Oleynikov, Tsaplya Olga Egorova, Dmitry Vilensky, and others Claire Fontaine (fictional conceptual artist)-- A Paris - based collective including Fulvia Carnevale and James Thornhill CPLY — William N. Copley Diane Pruis (pseudonymous Los Angeles gallerist)-- Untitled gallery's Joel Mesler Donelle Woolford (black female artist)-- Actors hired to impersonate said fictional artist
by white artist Joe Scanlan Dr. Lakra (Mexican artist
inspired by tattoo culture)-- Jeronimo Lopez Ramirez Dr. Videovich (a «specialist in curing television addiction»)-- The Argentine - American conceptual artist Jaime Davidovich Dzine — Carlos Rolon George Hartigan — The male pseudonym that the Abstract Expressionist painter Grace Hartigan adopted early in her career Frog King Kwok (Hong Kong performance artist who uses Chinese food as a frequent medium)-- Conceptualist Kwok Mang Ho The Guerrilla Girls — A still - anonymous group of
feminist artists who made critical agit - prop work exposing the gender biases in the art world Hennessy Youngman (hip - hop - styled YouTube advice dispenser), Franklin Vivray (increasingly unhinged Bob Ross - like TV painting instructor)-- Jayson Musson Henry Codax (mysterious monochrome artist)-- Jacob Kassay and Olivier Mosset JR — Not the shot villain of «Dallas» but the still - incognito street artist of global post-TED fame John Dogg (artist), Fulton Ryder (Upper East Side gallerist)-- Richard Prince KAWS — Brian Donnelly The King of Kowloon (calligraphic Hong Kong graffiti artist)-- Tsang Tsou - choi Klaus von Nichtssagend (fictitious Lower East Side dealer)-- Ingrid Bromberg Kennedy, Rob Hult, and Sam Wilson Leo Gabin — Ghent - based collective composed of Gaëtan Begerem, Robin De Vooght, and Lieven Deconinck Lucie Fontaine (art and curatorial collective)-- The writer / curator Nicola Trezzi and artist Alice Tomaselli MadeIn Corporation — Xu Zhen Man Ray — Emmanuel Radnitzky Marvin Gaye Chetwynd (Turner Prize - nominated artist formerly known as Spartacus Chetwynd)-- Alalia Chetwynd Maurizio Cattelan — Massimiliano Gioni, at least in many interviews the New Museum curator did in the famed Italian artist's stead in the»90s Mr. Brainwash (Banksy - idolizing street artist)-- Thierry Guetta MURK FLUID, Mike Lood — The artist Mark Flood R. Mutt, Rrose Sélavy — Marcel Duchamp Rammellzee — Legendary New York street artist and multimedia visionary, whose real name «is not to be told... that is forbidden,» according to his widow Reena Spaulings (Lower East Side gallery)-- Artist Emily Sundblad and writer John Kelsey Regina Rex (fictional Brooklyn gallerist)-- The artists Eli Ping (who now has opened Eli Ping Gallery on the Lower East Side), Theresa Ganz, Yevgenia Baras, Aylssa Gorelick, Angelina Gualdoni, Max Warsh, and Lauren Portada Retna — Marquis Lewis Rod Bianco (fictional Oslo galleris)-- Bjarne Melgaard RodForce (performance artist who explored the eroticized associations of black culture)-- Sherman Flemming Rudy Bust — Canadian artist Jon Pylypchuk Sacer, Sace (different spellings of a 1990s New York graffiti tag)-- Dash Snow SAMO (1980s New York Graffiti Tag)-- Jean - Michel Basquiat Shoji Yamaguchi (Japanese ceramicist who fled Hiroshima and settled in the American South with a black civil - rights activist, then died in a car crash in 1991)-- Theaster Gates Vern Blosum — A fictional Pop painter of odd image - and - word combinations who was invented
by a still - unnamed Abstract Expressionist artist in an attempt to satirize the Pop movement (and whose work is now sought - after in its own right) Weegee — Arthur Fellig What, How and for Whom (curators of 2009 Istanbul Biennial)-- Ana Dević, Nataša Ilić, Sabina Sabolović, Dejan Kršić, and Ivet Curlin The Yes Men — A group of «culture - jamming» media interventionists led
by Jacques Servin and Igor Vamos
An international, cross-generational selection of artists reflect upon the nuances of the female «self» as constructed or
inspired by cinema and pop culture, printed media and fashion,
feminist notions, racial politics, cultural traditions and personal concerns.
Zanny Begg's The City of Ladies: Resistance, revisionism and reclamation For Nina Miall, the Australian artist's film (
inspired by Franco - Italian writer and «proto -
feminist» Christine de Pizan's 1405 novel) spotlights the many facets of feminism and the role collectives play in protest
While these women continue to be the black sheep who strayed from the established
feminist flock, today they provide essential performative, discursive, and iconographic precedents for a host of contemporary art practices that explore hardcore, sex - positive terrain — from Jeff Koons's «Made in Heaven» series to more recent porn -
inspired work
by John Currin.
Inspired by plant thinking,
feminist science studies, new materialisms and quantum physics, Kausalainen creates ambiguous works in the form of gestures and actions.
She was active in the Black
feminist and lesbian movements, often
inspired by African - American activists, artists and writers.
Her compositions encompass field recordings and found sounds and are
inspired by ideas and reflections on silence and absence, architectural urban spaces, and
feminist activism.
Known for her incredible 1970s story quilts, Ringgold's 2013 solo exhibitions at ACA Galleries in New York and the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C., introduced many to a little known foundation of her practice that began a decade earlier — a series of bold, dynamic paintings
inspired by black pride and the civil rights and
feminist movements.
Pharr is now working on a collaboration
inspired by Womanhouse, the 1970s
feminist installation and performance space organized
by Judy Chicago and Miriam Shapiro, with Atlanta artist Martha Whittington, another professor - mentor, and dancer Onur Topal.
«The City of Dreams» has a long and rich history of
feminist art practice and exhibition making, including LACMA's watershed attempt at inserting
feminist art history into the museum with Women Artists: 1550 — 1950, curated
by art historian Linda Nochlin and Ann Sutherland Harris in 1976, or, for example, Judy Chicago and Miriam Schapiro's
inspiring installation and performance space Womanhouse (1972).
Thomas, whose work was included in the Museum's 2013 presentation of «Posing Beauty in African American Culture» and 2009 exhibition «Undercover: Performing and Transforming Black Female Identities,» is
inspired by a range of sources including art history, popular culture and
feminist thought.
Bonneviot's second solo show at Wilkinson is full of etched sheer plastic body forms and odd sculptures embedded with washing up items and scrubbers
inspired by the work of
feminist artist Mierle Laderman Ukeles.
The McNay presents the fourth work in the series, Sexism, 1973, wherein Andrews,
inspired by his involvement with
feminist groups and activists, explores similar oppressions of women.
Micol Hebron, a Los Angeles - based artist, is
inspired by the work of Carolee Schneemann, a
feminist artist that made art history in 1975
by performing naked to protest gender inequality in the art world.
Inspired by the flow of natural elements and the cycle of the seasons, she links this wild energy in her work to her engagement in
feminist publishing and performance projects outside her studio.
The show, organized
by Leslie Brack and Suzy Spence, was
inspired by the 1972
feminist art project, «Womanhouse,» and featured work that... read more... «Suddenly, Mira Schor»
Long before she produced her classic work The Dinner Party and effectively invented
feminist art, Chicago lived in Los Angeles, where she made sculptural work
inspired largely
by the particular branch of Californian abstraction known as «finish fetish» and exemplified
by the work of artists like John MacCracken, Robert Irwin, and James Turrell.
Inspired by the 1973 book, My Secret Garden,
by Nancy Friday, a pioneering sex - positive
feminist, the exhibition unapologetically explores female sexuality and expression.
Nancy Robinson, a Minneapolis painter who will show her work in a related exhibit at Instinct Gallery, remembers being
inspired by the Guerrilla Girls in the 1980s, when she was a member of the
feminist artist collective WARM.
In December 2015 she co-organized a programme of
feminist events across the ICA, The Showroom, Raven Row and SPACE called «Now You Can Go,»
inspired by Italian feminisms of the 1970s and 1980s, exploring consciousness raising, affective withdrawal, and
feminist generation.
It first appeared in America and Britain, where various
feminist art groups were
inspired by the women's liberation movement, before spreading across Europe.
Inspired by demonstrations throughout history, from the Suffragettes to SlutWalk, FEMEN, and Pussy Riot, this evolving body of work provides a forum to discuss contemporary political and social issues, and tools to
inspire and embolden a new generation of
feminists.
Influenced
by the folk aesthetics and history of her surroundings, Norton's work employs music, video, mixed media, and performance as her country - music alter ego Ninnie, in a manner that combines
feminist thought with local and vernacular imagery
inspired by the cultural traditions of the rural South and specifically of her native Kentucky.