Tag Archives: feminism
Judy Chicago: Early Work at the Brooklyn Museum
Recently I had the pleasure of seeing “Chicago in L.A.: Judy Chicago’s Early Work, 1964-74,” at the Brooklyn Museum. Chicago, who is arguably one of the most influential feminist artists of this time, gained international notoriety for her installation The Dinner Party, which is permanently housed at the Brooklyn Museum. The pairing of these early […]
Re: Purpose at FiveMyles
Featuring: Pamela Council, Patrice Renee Washington, Sara Jimenez, Sondra Perry Re: Purpose April 12 – May 4, 2014 FiveMyles 558 St. Johns place Brooklyn fivemyles.org
The Necessary Magician: Irena Jurek Talks Work With Artist Evie Falci
Irena Jurek: When I look at your work I think about how it’s in dialogue with ancient ideas and the origins of abstraction. Kandinsky is often accredited with having invented abstraction, but it’s existed for so much longer than that. Evie Falci: If you look at Paleolithic art, it’s filled with spirals and dot work, […]
Close to the Tower of Silence: Shirin Neshat by Nina Zivancevic
Shirin Neshat, originally from Iran, is a woman artist of an international repute. She always challenges the notion of femininity in her video work, her films, and her installations. Many things have already been written about her much awarded film Women without Men in which we see women, with or without men, who question all forms […]
