The connections between patriarchy, violence and war which were first
explored by feminist pacifists in the first decades of the 20th Century have been revived today.
Other artistic disciplines
explored by feminists include photography (Cindy Sherman, Laurie Simmons, Nan Goldin), Photomontage (Anita Steckel), installation art (Judy Chicago), as well as design - especially graphic art (Sheila Levrant de Bretteville, Barbara Kruger), and word art (Jenny Holzer).
Not exact matches
This gives womanist scholars the freedom to
explore the particularities of black women's history and culture without being guided
by what white
feminists have already identified as women's issues.
Having conducted dozens of interviews with victims and academics, she considers the very real damage (including suicides) caused
by weaponizing the word slut (often
by teens), while also
exploring attempts to reclaim slut
by those willing to embrace it with everything from cheeky humor to
feminist rage.
The film — which focuses on three women
exploring their sexuality and experiencing gender inequality in New York City — was made
by an all - female crew and co-directed
by Kate Millett, a prominent
feminist activist and writer who is best known for her 1970 book Sexual Politics.
Organized
by the Brooklyn Museum, this exhibition is presented as the first - ever to
explore the perspectives of women of color «distinct from the primarily white, middle - class mainstream
feminist movement — in order to reorient conversations around race, feminism, political action, art production, and art history in this significant historical period.»
Sex - Work is a new section for Frieze London 2017, curated
by Alison Gingeras,
exploring feminist art and radical politics
Girl is a collaboration between a South Asian and an African American artist that
explores the societal baggage borne
by women of color who are frequently excluded from both
feminist and racial - justice conversations.
Be sure not to miss booths
by Benrubi Gallery from New York, a leading gallery with a focus on 20th Century and contemporary photographs; Blindspot Gallery from Hong Kong, a gallery with a primary focus on contemporary image - based works; Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery from New York, a gallery with a major commitment to representing new media artists who are
exploring the intersection of arts and technology; Dittrich & SCHLECHTRIEM & V1 from Berlin, a gallery representing emerging, mid-career and established artists from around the world; Fraenkel Gallery from San Francisco
exploring photography and its relation to other arts; Gagosian Gallery from New York, Hong Kong, Beverly Hills, Athens and Rome; Hamiltons Gallery from London, one of the world's foremost galleries of photography; Galerie Lelong from Paris focusing on an international contemporary art and representing artists and estates from the United States, South America, Europe, and the Asia - Pacific Region; Magda Danysz from Paris, Shanghai and London dedicated to promoting and supporting emerging artists and favouring a larger access to contemporary art on an international level; Mai 36 from Zurich focusing on trading and presenting international contemporary art; Pace Prints / Mac Gill, a publisher of fine art prints and artist editions affiliated with the Pace Gallery; Richard Saltoun Gallery from London specialising in post-war and contemporary art with an interest in conceptual,
feminist and performance artists; Roman Road from London; Rosegallery from Santa Monica, an internationally recognized gallery of 20th and 21st century works on paper; Taka Ishii Gallery from Paris, Tokyo, and New York devoted to
exploring the conceptual foundations and implications of contemporary (photo) graphic practice; White Space from Beijing; and Yumiko Chiba Associates from Tokyo, among others.
On Sunday, Schnitger further
explores feminist speech
by inviting filmmaker Kerri Koch to share her work, Don't Need You: A Herstory of Riot Grrrl; followed
by a screening of Inez Milholland: Forward Into Light, a short film
by Martha Wheelock on the preeminent suffragette; and a talk on contemporary witchcraft and closing ceremony
by Amanda Yates Garcia, the Oracle of Los Angeles.
London show will
explore works
by nine radical
feminists whose creations were once considered too explicit to be shown
Several of the trailblazing female artists represented
by P.P.O.W. (E03) embraced the grid as a conceptual and
feminist tool, subverting the art - historical status quo — from Dotty Attie's gridded canvases
exploring the gendered gaze and Martha Wilson's photo - and - text - based representations of embodied personas to Carolee Schneemann's 1980s photo grids comprising images of isolated lips, nostrils and nipples, or her interactions with her beloved cat.
Other works in the exhibition include Jorge Pardo's handcrafted wooden palette and modernist designed furniture that question the nature of the aesthetic experience; pioneering conceptual artist Joseph Kosuth's discourse on aesthetics in neon, An Object Self - Defined, 1966; Rachel Lachowicz's 1992 row of urinals cast in red lipstick, which delivers a
feminist critique of Duchamp's readymade; Richard Pettibone's paintings of photographs of Fountain; Richard Phillips» recent paintings based on Gerhard Richter's highly valued work; Miami artist Tom Scicluna's neon sign, «Interest in Aesthetics,» a critique of the use of aesthetics in Fort Lauderdale's ordinance on homelessness; the French collaborative Claire Fontaine's lightbox highlighting Duchamp's critical comments about art juries; Corey Arcangel's video Apple Garage Band Auto Tune Demonstration, 2007, which tweaks the concept of aesthetics in the digital age; Bernd and Hilla Becher's photographs, Four Water Towers, 1980, that reveal the potential for aesthetic choices within the same typological structures; and works
by Elad Lassry and Steven Baldi, who
explore the aesthetic history of photography.
This exhibition is led
by her writing, which will act as a prism through which to
explore feminist perspectives on landscape, domesticity and identity in modern and contemporary art - with works
by over 70 artists.
South of Pico is broad in scope, tracing the narratives of oft - neglected artists,
exploring the contributions of women artists and
feminist visual theory, and highlighting the history of collecting
by Hollywood movie stars and entertainers.
-- 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
Jesse Harrod's artistic practice is guided
by a fundamental commitment to
exploring the dense political entanglements of material history, queer -
feminist survival, and craft practice.
Among the galleries
exploring feminist issues, Salon 94 (New York) will feature works
by three women artists — Huma Bhabha, Francesca DiMattio, and Katy Grannan — offering commentary on issues of race, gender, class and sexuality; and Galleri Magnus Karlsson (Stockholm) will present a thematic stand curated around the question of what it means for works of art to be designated as «female».
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.
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.
The godmother of
feminist art, Kelly is known for her provocative films and large - scale narrative installations that
explore notions of sexuality, work, power, and politics
by tapping into the more visceral aspects of daily life... «Kelly is one of the most important female Conceptual artists of our time,» says L.A. gallerist Susanne Vielmetter, who represents the artist along with New York — based Mitchell - Innes & Nash, and Pippy Houldsworth Gallery of London.
Inspired
by the 1973 book, My Secret Garden,
by Nancy Friday, a pioneering sex - positive
feminist, the exhibition unapologetically
explores female sexuality and expression.
The exhibition includes a site - specific installation
by feminist pioneer Mary Beth Edelson, part of an ongoing series of collage projects initiated years after her renowned collage posters of the 1970s; a series of preparatory collages
by Marlene McCarty produced for her large - scale drawings of young women who committed patricide; and a series of mixed - media collages
by veteran
feminist artist Anita Steckel that places the artist within drawings
by Tom of Finland,
exploring the possibility of alternate forms of cross-gender desire and visual pleasure.
The contributions also consider such specific works as Kelly's Interim (1984 — 1989), the subject of a special issue of October; Gloria Patri (1992), an installation conceived in response to the first Gulf War; The Ballad of Kastriot Rexhepi (2001), an extensive project including a 200 - foot narrative executed in the medium of compressed lint and the performance of a musical score
by Michael Nyman; and two recent works, Love Songs (2005 - 2007), which
explores the role of memory in
feminist politics, and Mimus (2012), a triptych that parodies the House Un-American Activities Committee's 1962 investigation of the pacifist group, Women Strike for Peace.
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.
Playing on
feminist themes that Chicago has
explored throughout her career, local artists Niomi Fawn, Thais Mather and Lucy Madeline will illuminate the continued vitality of the powerful social movement that was bolstered
by Chicago's artworks and activism.
Sex - Work is a new section for Frieze London 2017, curated
by Alison Gingeras,
exploring feminist art and radical politics The section at Frieze London will be dedicated to women artists working at the extreme edges of
feminist practice since the 1960s, and the galleries who supported them, including: Galerie Andrea Caratsch presenting Betty Tompkins; Blum and Poe presenting Penny Slinger; Richard Saltoun presenting Renate Bertlmann; Salon 94 presenting Marilyn Minter; and Hubert Winter presenting Birgit Jürgenssen.