The Huffington Post shares a list of eight radical
feminist artists from the 1970s who shattered the male gaze.
I don't separate great
feminist artists from great non-feminist artists like Lynda Benglis or Y Pants.
Often underrepresented in the art world, a need for rebalancing has been recognised by Frieze itself this year and a specially curated section showcases work by
feminist artists from the 1970s and 1980s.
Jenny Holzer continues tradition of
feminist artists from 1970s, dealing with the complex visual narratives and inscription of the women into language.
Nancy Spero is one of the most influential American
feminist artists from the 20th century; however, her large - scale 2007 installation Maypole: Take No Prisoners has so far never been exhibited at her home country.
So were Jenny Snider and Amy Snider, her sister, who got me an internship at Heresies magazine, an experience that was incredibly important in terms of my own introduction to
feminist artists from the older generation as well as my own.
Gingeras is an independent curator as well as holding an adjunct curatorship at Dallas Contemporary, where she most recently curated Black Sheep Feminism: The Art of Sexual Politics, which examined the work of four radical
feminist artists from the 1970s: Joan Semmel, Anita Steckel, Betty Tompkins, and Cosey Fanni Tutti.
The artwork was placed in the room which presented
feminists artists from such distanced parts of the world as Cuba (Ana Mendieta) and former Yugoslavia (Sanja Ivekovič).
Not exact matches
When details of her self - titled 2013 album were originally leaked earlier that year under the moniker Mrs. Carter, it was panned by some critics for its foreshadowed embrace of the
artist's still - new identity as hip - hop mogul Sean «Jay - Z» Carter's wife rather than the trailblazing
feminist icon who coined powerful female anthems like Irreplaceable, Single Ladies and Independent Women
from her Destiny's Child days.
No such luck for the other Lebowski, his bimbo wife, or his affected daughter (Julianne Moore, in a nasty parody of a
feminist artist), all loosely derived
from The Big Sleep; a sleek pornographer (Ben Gazzara) even more loosely derived
from Chinese Bookie; or the seven assorted thugs injected periodically into the action, each one a separate gag or cliche.
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It's definitely a mix, but of course most of the lectures on campuses are attended by students and faculty
from the queer /
feminist studies and art departments, with a smattering of local cartoonists and
artists.
Grants to poets, fiction and nonfiction writers, visual
artists, and for a mixed - genre category (illustration and text) to
feminist women in the arts; amount ranges
from $ 500 to $ 1,500.
Artists from all over the country flocked to New York in the»70s to live in its cheap lofts and to show in its new breed of art spaces —
from the Kitchen to the Clocktower Gallery to
Artists Space to A.I.R., the first
feminist art gallery.
Bluestone Babe, the renowned
artist and
feminist, will be flying over
from Brooklyn to tattoo a series of her designs for the weekend event.
Such attempts, whether undertaken
from a
feminist point of view, like the ambitious article on women
artists which appeared in the 1858 Westminster Review, 2 or more recent scholarly studies on such
artists as Angelica Kauffmann and Artemisia Gentileschi, 3 are certainly worth the effort, both in adding to our knowledge of women's achievement and of art history generally.
This, on the surface of it, seems reasonable enough: in general, women's experience and situation in society, and hence as
artists, is different
from men's, and certainly the art produced by a group of consciously united and purposefully articulate women intent on bodying forth a group consciousness of feminine experience might indeed be stylistically identifiable as
feminist, if not feminine, art.
From a
feminist perspective, Collins's «70s work, which consists almost exclusively of films and photographs of the
artist staring at attractive young women, can look like one long, unapologetic, unredeemable celebration of the male gaze.
Feminist scholar Lisa Tickner argues that
feminist art freed
artists from the Oedipal narrative of art history, which she interprets as generations of (male)
artists reacting to and rejecting the work of their «art fathers.»
As the title suggests, the exhibition casts a wide net, capturing everything
from cultural artifacts (
feminist literature, earthenware) to graphic design (exhibition posters, bakery business cards), to unique
artists» works influenced by graphic novels, Girl Scout badges, stock photography, and other bric - a-brac.
6 Johannes Vogt's themed booth invites viewers to examine aspects of
feminist philosophy, with a particular stand out
from artist Monika Bravo, who's wall piece Bild - Objekt layers materials to create solid forms.
From the seminal performance work by Rachel Rosenthal, the early queer video work of EZTV, boundary breaking art installations by Barbara T. Smith, the pioneering media explorations by Electronic Café International, to the
feminist media interventions of Suzanne Lacy and Leslie Labowitz - Starus, these five influential and often overlooked
artists and collaborative arts groups were fundamental to charting the course for the
artist space movement and its vision of egalitarian artistic production and reception.
The anthology includes 68 titles by more than 60
artists, and is curated into eight programs ranging
from conceptual, performance - based,
feminist, and image - processed works, to documentary and grassroots activism.
Recent publications explore the work of
artists previously marginalised
from art discourse and institutions including Otherwise: Imagining queer
feminist art histories (Manchester, 2016); Seeing Differently: A History and Theory of Identification and the Visual Arts (Routledge, 2012); The Feminism and Visual Culture Reader (Routledge, new edition 2010); and Irrational Modernism: A Neurasthenic History of New York Dada (MIT, 2004); and numerous articles.
She is an
artist whose self - image paintings
from the 1970s have become iconic
feminist works of art.
It ranges
from the NMWA's women only collection and exhibition - programme to an entire wing of the Brooklyn Museum being dedicated to
feminist art; there's also The Metropolitan Museum of Art's decision to show work by lesser - known
artists like Helen Torr and Elizabeth Catlett that has never been on view in «Reimagining Modernism: 1900 — 1950» (the rehang of their modern art collection); and there's the recent acquisition by the Tate of a painting by Mary Beale, who is regarded as Britain's first professional female
artist.
Los Angeles - based
artist and writer Maya Gurantz talks about: Getting out of the staid confines of where she grew up, and what it was (and is) like being an angry
feminist from an early age; her «accountability group,» a group of women
artists...
Nearly 50
artists are featured,
from feminist icons like Betty Tompkins and Joan Semmel to emerging names fighting the same fight those women did against censorship and taboos decades ago.
Stout rattled off a long list of
artists already lined up for solo shows whose output explore subjects ranging
from feminist to queer identities, while others have anti-capitalist motifs.
How she's teaching younger
artists from a younger generation and building these communities that are cross generational, building these communities that are about marginalized communities, these
feminist collectives.
In North America,
artists from the older
feminist guard also took to the web.
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.
But I would say I was a black
artist more readily than a
feminist artist because the political angle in my work has been stronger
from that point of view.
Inspired by DIY political posters, the new drawings are
from the
artist's ongoing series of
feminist graphics on cardboard supports.
This is distinctly different
from the earlier generation of women
artists such as Frankenthaler, Grace Hartigan, and Joan Mitchell, who bristled at the idea of being called a
feminist.
From protest at the lack of inclusion of women
artists in galleries and museums, to resuscitation of the degraded languages of decorative and craft - based arts, the first phase of
feminist art making was activist, passionate, and especially concerned with altering art history.
The
artist explores African and African American ritual
from a
feminist perspective.
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.
She is a key voice
from the first generation of American
artists to base their practice in
feminist issues, and she has shown her paintings, collages, installations, and photographs worldwide.
Highlights this year include curated gallery sections dedicated to discovery and radical
feminist practice, Frieze Projects» non-profit programme featuring commissions
from 11 international
artists and for the first time this year, Frieze Sculpture, London's largest free showcase of major outdoor works.
The
artist best known for pulling a
feminist tract
from her vagina in 1975 always has more tricks up her....
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.
As an
artist,
feminist and lifelong activist, Nancy Spero researched the obscured histories of women to create a figurative cast of characters, a kind of repertory company, culled
from many eras and cultures.
Before Kali has a wide range of references,
from Indus Valley figurines, to ancient Indian Rasa theory that deals with art and aesthetics, to premodern sculptures, current political events, references to Western art history and contemporary
feminist artists such as Louise Bourgeois and Maria Lassnig.»
From prescient
feminist Lynn Hershman Leeson to Cuban
artist - activist Tania Bruguera to the female - led collective Futurefarmers to social practitioners Suzanne Lacy and Andrea Bowers, YBCA champions women who are creating new civic imaginaries and redefining what it means to work in the public realm.
This month the legendary
feminist artist will turn 75, and the Tri-state area is about to explode into a trio of celebrations of the Los Angeles
artist, including a survey called «The Very Best of Judy Chicago» at Jersey City's Mana Contemporary and another one displaying her early paintings, videos, and sculptures
from the 1960s and»70s at the Brooklyn Museum.
The
feminist art movement emerged in the 1960s with women
artists taking an interest in how they differed
from their male counterparts.
Supported by an Art Fund Jonathan Ruffer curatorial grant, it brings together work by
artists including Louise Bourgeois, Claude Cahun and Woolf's sister Vanessa Bell, and invites us to view them
from feminist perspectives.
Jill turned Rochdale art gallery
from a staid northern backwater into a force to be reckoned with, known for exhibitions celebrating the oppositional stance of some of the most significant
feminist, black and working - class
artists of the 80s.
Women,
from contemporary
artist Lisa Yuskavage to modernist painter Frances Strain, are on show at Jeffrey Deitch's recreation of the late
feminist artist Florine Stettheimer's studio.