Sentences with phrase «installation by feminist»

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 first exhibition of The Dinner Party — a collaborative installation by feminist artist Judy Chicago consisting of a table with place settings for thirty - nine mythical and historical women — opens.

Not exact matches

Referencing past precedents of feminist art, installation, performance, and ideology, the artworks in the show present an expanded visual language that has resulted from a more inclusive art world, shaped in part by the social movements of the 1970's, thereby paying homage to a generation who has paved the way for contemporary female expression.

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.

Arcadia Missa, also in Peckham, showed a joint multimedia installation combining works by the American artist A.L. Steiner, of the collective Chicks on Speed, and the British feminist artist Phoebe Collings - James.

«Pussies,» Judy Chicago's first solo exhibition in San Francisco since her iconic installation The Dinner Party premiered there in 1979, presented paintings, drawings, and ceramic plates made between 1968 and 2004, many of which exemplified the feminist art practices pioneered by the artist in the 1960s and»70s.

Katarzyna Kozyra is feminist artist, widely known by her controversial installations Animal Pyramide, Blood relationship (1995), Olympia (1996), Bath House (1997 - 1999) in which she addresses taboo themes such as industry of animal killing, sexuality of the woman body affected by cancer, topics of intimacy or processes of societal gender construction and gender - related pop girls star style clichés.

I also included pieces by a few much older artists who made specifically feminist work in the 1970s: Alice Neel's portraits of Linda Nochlin and other figures from the movement, and a number of Louise Bourgeois» installation and performance works.

Women House is a sequel to the famous art installation Womanhouse developed in 1972 by feminist artists Judy Chicago and Miriam Schapiro.

299 Meserole was supposed to feature several exhibitions curated by local, as well as international galleries, feminist symposium / art installation Flower Garden and another Confronting Bushwick discussion panel.

Pharr is now working on a collaboration inspired by Womanhouse, the 1970s feminist installation and performance space organized by Judy Chicago and Miriam Shapiro, with Atlanta artist Martha Whittington, another professor - mentor, and dancer Onur Topal.

«The City of Dreams» has a long and rich history of feminist art practice and exhibition making, including LACMA's watershed attempt at inserting feminist art history into the museum with Women Artists: 1550 — 1950, curated by art historian Linda Nochlin and Ann Sutherland Harris in 1976, or, for example, Judy Chicago and Miriam Schapiro's inspiring installation and performance space Womanhouse (1972).

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.

A 48 - part photographic installation by radical Viennese feminist artist Renate Bertlmann is the centerpiece of the presentation.

That is exemplified by two series of paintings, which question (even mock) painterliness without abandoning it, and a wonderful installation that — perhaps in something of a feminist riposte — redistributes the poundage of Richard Serra's massive «Delineator» (1974 - 75).

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).

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.

The group show, curated by Ugochukwu - Smooth C. Nzewi, immediately evokes notions of Judy Chicago's radical installation Dinner Party (1979), but with its feminist message subverted to address the expanse of African culture and the continent's place within the global art scene.

In 1972, pioneering feminist artists Judy Chicago and Miriam Schapiro transformed a derelict Hollywood mansion into «Womanhouse,» a network of exhibitions, installations and performances by a vastly underrepresented subculture of American artists: women.

Judy Chicago (born 1939) was an American artist and activist best known for large - scale collaborative installation artworks — The Dinner Party and The Birth Project — both based on feminist themes and The Holocaust Project — based on the atrocities committed by the Nazi Party during World War II.

Zoe Leonard, an artist primarily known for her photography, sculpture, and site - specific installations, is also an influential feminist and queer activist who started working in New York City in the 1980s, an era marked by overwhelming loss during the AIDS epidemic.