Not exact matches
While grappling with her place in a male
dominated art world, the artist also lovingly explores the unrealized
artistic career of her mother, an aspiring amateur artist who suffered from Bipolar Disorder throughout her adult
life.
Stieglitz's initial support of the young artist Georgia O'Keeffe resulted in their marriage and then eventual separation as O'Keeffe found a new passion in her
life, which
dominated her time and influenced her
artistic language for decades: the light and landscape of the American Southwest.
In an age in which social media has
dominated our public and private
lives, and issues of identity and representation abound, performance is a contemporary mode of
artistic practice.
Weems and Holzer use text to interrogate power through self - expression, creating new narratives for cultural and political resistance, while Katchadourian voices the frustrations of everyday
life while inserting her
artistic identity into the male -
dominated history of portraiture.