Gayle Kells» paintings, drawings and mixed media work address
female identity issues using recurring images such as the dress, mannequins, undergarments, and the full - figured...
Not exact matches
«SELF REFLECTION is an intersectional approach to
issues of «gender,
identity, sexuality, body image, censorship, and self - liberation,» says The Untitled Space Gallery, and the artists involve use their own autonomy as a means of addressing «the personal as political via self - reflection and reinvention, tackling conventional notions of
female image and taboo.»
, focuses on images and myths that surround women's
issues and
female identity by drawing inspiration from Ukraine's culture, heritage, and historic symbols to confront modernity.
The questions of assumptions about male heroes and
female heroines, about the
issues of
identity politics and gender studies, coinciding with deconstructivist views of art history and more, are tackled in Kass's wide repertoire of silkscreened and painted imagery.
Unknown Heroine covers four decades of pioneering work against a background of political unrest, tackling
issues of
female identity, consumerism and historical amnesia.
Her practice grapples with
issues surrounding
female identity of her homeland while embodying a stoic poeticism and lyrical elegance.
Her unconventional representations of
female bodies address
issues of women's
identity, sexuality, and eroticism in an open and direct way.
Her use of multi-layered staging of paradoxical dualities within the theme of idealized
female imagery investigates the
issues of race, culture,
identity, and perception in today's pluralistic societies.
Touching upon many different struggles that women have to go through, Hershman Leeson's persona Roberta Breitmore is a telling representation of a
female identity and the
issue of not being seen caused by the politics of (in) visibility.
Her other works also explore
issues of gender and
female identity in contemporary Islamic culture.
Over the past decade, she has been exploring the theme of idealized
female imagery as a means to investigate the
issues of race, culture,
identity, and perception in today's pluralistic societies.
She felt she could get in touch with
issues of
female identity, the body, the fractured family, long before the art world and society considered them expressed subjects in art.
Lorraine O'Grady is an artist and critic whose installations, performances, and texts address
issues of diaspora, hybridity, and
female subjectivity; her Biennial work is an installation of photographs and photo - collage that deals with
issues of appropriation and cultural
identity.
The three fit neatly into three generations of black
female artists concerned with both
identity and the social
issues affected by systemic racism.
The exhibition will look at how performance is employed as a medium for addressing
issues of
identity and self - representation by
female artists from Pakistan.
During the 1970s Soltau held performances where she would bind herself and audience members in black thread, concealing their faces and confronting
issues surrounding the body,
female identity, censorship and silencing.
In honor of National Women's History Month, Los Angeles Modern Auctions (LAMA) spotlights five stellar women artists whose potent work and individual practices celebrate womanhood and
female autonomy, call into question responses to gender parity, and transcend traditional conceptions of gender
identity to address broader
issues surrounding diversity, inclusion, and tolerance for all humans.
At the beachside Untitled fair this week (December 6 - 10) are works by Deborah Roberts, who explores black
female identity (Fort Gansevoort gallery, $ 5,000 - $ 25,000), while imagined figures explore similar
issues in works by Amy Sherald, recently chosen to paint Michelle Obama's official portrait for the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery (Monique Meloche gallery).
The highlights include Conses / May Windows (After Mirage) from 1976, an installation she re-made in 2011; the iconic video Organic Honey's Visual Telepathy from 1972 which explores
female identity; as well as the installations Reanimation 2010/13, Stream or River, and Flight or Patter that address the
issues of climate change and animal extinction.
My clinical interest is providing sex therapy with individuals and couples to treat male and
female sexual matters, sexual dysfunctions, sexual disorders, sexual orientation, sexual expression and gender
identity issues.
Sex therapy can help address a number of
issues such as: lack of knowledge regarding sexual health; sexual
issues related to religion / spirituality, family values, culture, and / or ethnicity; communication barriers related to sexual intimacy; sexual and relationship
issues related to an affair and / or differences in sexual pleasure preferences; sexual health related to medical factors;
female orgasmic disorder;
female sexual interest / arousal disorder; erectile disorder (premature ejaculation); pain experienced during penetration; vaginismus; male hypoactive sexual desire disorder;
issues related to sexual orientation and / or gender
identity; lacking knowledge or relationship
issues related to a sexually transmitted infection and / or safer sex practices; risky sexual behavior related to substance use; sexual
issues or relationship
issues related to history of sexual abuse; and interest and / or lacking knowledge regarding BDSM, kink, and / or other sexual lifestyles.
Touches on abusive sex assignment surgery in infants and young children, debunking John Money's theories of gender as being purely socialization, and does a nice job of explaining the differences between homosexuality and gender
identity, transvestism and transsexualism, although winds up focusing heavily on the adult
issues of male - to -
female transsexualism.