Sentences with phrase «black female subjectivity»

Lorraine O'Grady presents a reading of Olympia's Maid: Reclaiming Black Female Subjectivity as part of the Future Feminism show at The Hole, New York.

Lorraine O'Grady presentation of Olympia's Maid: Reclaiming Black Female Subjectivity as part of the Future Feminism show at The Hole in New York reviewed by Katie Cercone in Posture.

I've been thinking about black female subjectivity in my work for a long time and I think about how black women often use this term «tenderheaded» to describe other black women.

A number of artists in the exhibition — including Mequitta Ahuja, Zoë Charlton, Firelei Báez, Christina Quarles, Tschabalala Self — deconstruct black female subjectivity by reassembling disparate iconographic materials and motifs into fragmented portraits.

Simone Leigh is a New York — based artist and curator exploring issues surrounding Black female subjectivity.

Trained as a professional dancer at the Alvin Ailey school, Narcissister's performance work explores black female subjectivity in a manner referencing the loaded historical trajectory of American burlesque, and as of late, is making a case for radical self - love as a political act.

But there's no real home - place for black female subjectivity as represented in painting.

The result is a surreal counter-narrative to American history that re-centers black female subjectivity.

While the body appears in a literal sense in Antoni's works, most notably as a vehicle for creation, Leigh contemplates its representation through investigations into black female subjectivity and constructed archetypes.

Often employing her own autobiography to consider black female subjectivities and identity construction within the social and political structures of art and the world at large, O'Grady brings sharp focus to the experience of aging.

The New York — based artist describes her practice as an object - based ongoing exploration of black female subjectivity.

In addition to her work as a visual artist, she has also made innovative contributions to cultural criticism with her writings, including the now canonical article, «Olympia's Maid: Reclaiming Black Female Subjectivity».

What we forget is that just as Chicago and Miriam Schapiro (co-founders of the Cal Arts Feminist Art Program) opened Womenhouse, a 1972 site - specific work in a Los Angeles house, artists like Betye Saar and Senga Nengudi were also engaging in discussions of black female subjectivity and oppression.

There have since been 25 dinners that have explored themes like Baltimore, Race, and Identity (in honor of Freddy Gray); the 2016 shootings in Orlando and the need for sanctuary spaces; Black Female Subjectivity; Black Male Subjectivity; and Racial Subjugation in Latin American History.

Working in ceramics, sculpture, video, installation, and social practice, Simone Leigh (b. 1967, Chicago) examines the construction of black female subjectivity and economies of preservation and exchange.

Working across ceramics, sculpture, video, installation, and social practice, Simone Leigh examines the construction of black female subjectivity and economies of self - preservation and exchange.

As an interdisciplinary artist, Leigh works in ceramics, performance, and installation to investigate what she refers to as «black female subjectivities.»

One of their key concerns is to make visible the work of black women artists and black female subjectivities, to counteract forces that seek to make them and their community invisible or unseen.

The exhibition seeks to explore the possibility of different, critical engagements with geography through the lens of black female subjectivities and feminisms.

Lorraine O'Grady (b. 1934) is an artist and critic whose installations, performances, and texts address issues of diaspora, hybridity, and black female subjectivity.

ICA Announces Group Exhibition by Four Intergenerational Women Artists Exploring Issues of Geography, the Environment, and Black Female Subjectivities

Lorraine O'Grady is an artist and critic whose installations, performances, and texts address issues of diaspora, hybridity, and black female subjectivity.

Through a convergence of interest in anthropology, science fiction, black female subjectivity and women's work, her art explores the humor and fantasy involved in self - making within diasporic societies, which have an ability to live with cultural ambiguities and use them to build psychological and even metaphysical defenses against cultural invasions.

Simone Leigh's practice focuses on an exploration of black female subjectivity, informed by her interest in African art, ethnographic research, feminism and performance.

Simone Leigh's practice is an object - based ongoing exploration of black female subjectivity.

Simone Leigh's practice incorporates sculpture, video and installation, all informed by her ongoing exploration of black female subjectivity and ethnography.

«A destiny to change and adapt, seems the perfect metaphor to describe my involvement with sculpture as an ongoing exploration of black female subjectivity,» Leigh says.

Over the course of more than three decades, artist and cultural critic Lorraine O'Grady has won acclaim for her installations, performances and texts addressing the subjects of diaspora, hybridity and black female subjectivity.