Category Archives: Artists

Women in Migration

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Available to purchase, read or download here: https://openbookpublishers.com/product/840.

This book came out of conference in Florence, Italy that I was honored to be a part of. It is an incredible resource.

Introduction: Women and Migration[s]
Deborah Willis, Ellyn Toscano and Kalia Brooks Nelson

Part One: Imagining Family and Migration 11

  1. Between Self and Memory
    Ellyn Toscano
  2. Fragments of Memory: Writing the Migrant’s Story
    Anna Arabindan-Kesson
  3. A Congolese Woman’s Life in Europe: A Postcolonial Diptych of Migration
    Sandrine Colard
  4. Migrations
    Kathy Engel

Part Two: Mobility and Migration

  1. Carrying Memory
    Marianne Hirsch
  2. Making Through Motion
    Wangechi Mutu
  3. Strange Set of Circumstances: White Artistic Migration and Crazy Quilt
    Karen Finley
  4. Nora Holt: New Negro Composer and Jazz Age Goddess
    Cheryl A. Wall

Part Three: Understanding Pathways

  1. Silsila: Linking Bodies, Deserts, Water
    Sama Alshaibi
  2. My Baby Saved My Life: Migration and Motherhood in an American High School
    Jessica Ingram
  3. Visualizing Displacement Above The Fold
    Lorie Novak
  4. Unveiling Violence: Gender and Migration in the Discourse of Right-Wing Populism
    Debora Spini
  5. A Different Lens
    Maaza Mengiste
  6. Reinventing the Spaces Within: The Early Images of Artist Lalla Essaydi
    Isolde Brielmaier
  7. Swimming with E. C.
    Kellie Jones

Part Four: Reclaiming Our Time

  1. Kinship, the Middle Passage, and the Origins of Racial Slavery
    Jennifer L. Morgan
  2. Black Women’s Work: Resisting and Undoing Character Education and the ‘Good’ White Liberal Agenda
    Bettina L. Love
  3. Filipina Stories: Gabriela NY and Justice for Mary Jane Veloso
    Editha Mesina
  4. Women & Migrations: African Fashion’s Global Takeover
    Allana Finley
  5. What Would It Mean to Sing A Black Girl’s Song?: A Brief Statement on the Reality of Anti-Black Girl Terror
    Treva B. Lindsey

Part Five: Situated at the Edge

  1. Fredi’s Migration: Washington’s Forgotten War on Hollywood
    Pamela Newkirk
  2. Julia de Burgos: Cultural Crossing and Iconicity
    Vanessa Pérez-Rosario
  3. Sarah Parker Remond’s Black American Grand Tour
    Sirpa Salenius
  4. Making Latinx Art: Juana Valdes at the Crossroads of Latinx and Latin American Art
    Arlene Dávila
  5. Moving Mountains: Harriet Hosmer’s Nineteenth-Century Italian Migration to Become the First Professional Woman Sculptor
    Patricia Cronin

Part Six: Transit, Transiting, and Transition

  1. Urban Candy: Screens, Selfies and Imaginings
    Roshini Kempadoo
  2. Controlled Images and Cultural Reassembly: Material Black Girls Living in an Avatar World
    Joan Morgan
  3. Supershero Amrita Simla, Partitioned Once, Migrated Twice
    Sarah K. Khan
  4. Diaspora, Indigeneity, Queer Critique: Tracey Moffatt’s Aesthetics of Dwelling in Displacement
    Gayatri Gopinath
  5. The Performance of Doubles: The Transposition of Gender and Race in Ming Wong’s Life of Imitation
    Kalia Brooks Nelson

Part Seven: The World is Ours, Too

  1. The Roots of Black American Women’s Internationalism: Migrations of the Spirit and the Heart 
    Francille Rusan Wilson
  2. ‘The World is Ours, Too’: Millennial Women and the New Black Travel Movement
    Tiffany M. Gill
  3. Performing a Life: Mattie Allen McAdoo’s Odyssey from Ohio to South Africa, Australia and Beyond, 1890–1900
    Paulette Young
  4. ‘I Don’t Pay Those Borders No Mind At All’: Audley E. Moore (‘Queen Mother’ Moore) – Grassroots Global Traveler and Activist
    Sharon Harley
  5. Löis Mailou Jones in the World
    Cheryl Finley

Part Eight: Emotional Cartography: Tracing the Personal

  1. The Ones Who Leave… the Ones Who Are Left: Guyanese Migration Story
    Grace Aneiza Ali
  2. The Acton Photograph Archive: Between Representation and Re-Interpretation
    Alessandra Capodacqua
  3. Reconciliations at Sea: Reclaiming the Lusophone Archipelago in Mónica de Miranda’s Video Works
    M. Neelika Jayawardane
  4. Transnational Minor Literature: Cristina Ali Farah’s Somali Italian Stories
    Alessandra Di Maio
  5. Seizing Control of the Narrative
    Misan Sagay
  6. Migration as a Woman’s Right: Stories from Comparative and Transnational Slavery Histories in the North Atlantic and Indian Ocean Worlds
    Gunja SenGupta
  7. The Sacred Migration of Sister Gertrude Morgan
    Imani Uzuri

Now that you have seen the table of contents, you will really want the free download

The Radical Legacy of Hannah Höch

The Radical Legacy of Hannah Höch, One of the Only Female Dadaists
by Alina Cohen, artsy.net

Photomontages were the original remix. In the early 20th century, a group of European artists spliced together images they’d found in popular media, creating singular artworks via a strategy of sampling. The results show both individual statements by their makers and cross-sections of visual culture from a particular historical moment. While these creators called their movement by the nonsense word “Dada” (“DADA, as for it, it smells of nothing, it is nothing, nothing, nothing,” said artist Francis Picabia), their strange new artworks offered significant polemical ideas about gender, politics, and creativity during a particularly tumultuous era in Western history. 
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Hannah Höch, one of the few female members recognized by the movement, offered a refreshing antithesis to such macho constructions. Her own photomontages offer kaleidoscopic visions of German culture during the interwar era, often from a distinctly queer, feminist perspective.
READ entire article.

Meryl Meisler: Vintage 70s Self-Portraits 

Playing dress up and shooting self-portraits at her parents’ house in the suburbs coaxed Meryl Meisler out of the closet and into herself.

Vintage 70s Selfies Show an Artist Discovering Her Sexuality

“Growing up in Long Island during the 1950s and 60s, Meryl Meisler had the typical suburban life: girl Scouts, ballet and tap dance lessons, and prom. But while she loved her family and friends, she didn’t quite fit in. She quickly realized she didn’t want to be a housewife, teacher, nurse, or a secretary—pretty much the only options available to young women at that time…” [read more]

{They should be referred to as self-portraits! http://blogs.getty.edu/iris/whats-the-difference-between-a-selfie-and-a-self-portrait/}

How to Be an Artist, According to Louise Bourgeois

“Art is not about art,” Louise Bourgeois once declared. “Art is about life, and that sums it up.”

4 Art Lessons from Louise Bourgeois

  • Lesson #1: Make art about your life
  • Lesson #2: Find inspiration in all of nature, including spiders and maggots
  • Lesson #3: Revisit the same themes over and over again (but also keep experimenting)
  • Lesson #4: Never stop making art

read entire article

Doris Salcedo inspiration

One of my art heroes who continues to inspire me…

“The act of sewing together each piece of cloth in an act of reparation, of knitting our own peace and is especially important at this time of uncertainty,” -Doris Salcedo

Participants in an artistic intervention by Doris Salcedo at the Plaza de Bolívar in Bogotá, Colombia, Oct 11, 2016 Photo: Leonardo Muñoz/EPA

Participants in an artistic intervention by Doris Salcedo at the Plaza de Bolívar in Bogotá, Colombia, Oct 11, 2016 Photo: Leonardo Muñoz/EPA

DORIS SALCEDO, has covered Bogotá’s central plaza in a massive white shroud.

In an act of protest against a civil conflict that has raged for more than 50 years, the plaza was covered in a massive white shroud bearing the names of the war’s many victims.

The public statement of mourning by artist Doris Salcedo was temporarily installed as the country grapples with the rejection of a peace deal with leftist Farc rebels that would have ended the war. [read more]

More on the intervention in an article on Hyperallergic

Watch this video for more on/by Doris Salcedo >>

And even more on this great artist on Art 21

And her Guggenheim exhibition is a great resource.

Nam June Paik

Nam June Paik is considered by many to be the inventor of video art.

Electric Superhighway, 1995

Electric Superhighway, 1995

Nam June Paik links in honor of his exhibition at the Asia Society until Jan 4, 2015

Comprehensive list of works and full bio

VIDEO LINKS

Great short video discussing how Nam June Paik predicted the Internet Age

Good Morning Mr. Orwell
(Initially broadcast on New Year’s Day, 1984)
Nam June Paik’s rebuttal to Orwell’s dystopian vision of 1984, is the first international satellite installation by Video Art pioneer Nam June Paik. Paik’s transcultural satellite extravaganzas links different countries (France, Germany, US), spaces, and times in often chaotic but entertaining collages of art and pop culture, the avant-garde and television. Paik saw Good Morning Mr. Orwell as a rebuttal to Orwell’s dystopian vision of 1984.
>> More Info on project from Asia Society

MORE RESOURCES
Nam June Paik website has a good overview essay on Paik’s work, The Worlds of Nam June Paik by John Hanhardt, former film and video curator at the Whitney and Guggenheim and is now the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s video-art curator.

Nam June Paik on ubuweb

Nam June Paik and Modern Technology Timeline

TV Buddha, Buddha and video with live feed

Watchdog, TV robot

 

Cindy Sherman: ‘Why am I in these photos?’

Cindy Sherman: ‘Why am I in these photos?’| The Guardian

Photographer Cindy Sherman talks about a difficult childhood, her compulsion to dress up, growing older – and why she now prefers to live alone.

…”A flick through the photographs in her current retrospective exhibition in LA reveals her transformed into 20 kinds of matinee starlet, Hitchcock lead, pneumatic Monroe, terrified centrefold, crime-scene corpse, old master muse, cut-up sex doll, Republican wife, clown; both as determinedly absent and iconically present in her work as Andy Warhol once was in his.” [read entire article]

Cindy Sherman in front of her work at the Broad museum, Los Angeles, where a major retrospective of her work is taking place. Photograph: Dan Tuffs for the Observer

Lori Nix + Kathleen Gerber

The Photographer Who Captures Tiny Post-Apocalyptic Worlds

From Petapixel on the work of Lori Nix + Kathleen Gerber (Nix+Gerber).

“Since 2005, Nix has been working on an project titled “The City,” which shows various scenes from a post-apocalyptic world... Pretty much everything in each scene is created by the two artists, and each scene takes about 7 months to create and shoot, from start to finish.”

Excerpts from their project The City

The Drawing Room created a 8-minute mini-documentary about the work of photographer Lori Nix and Kathleen Gerber, a duo now known as Nix+Gerber.

Lori Nix website