By Tucker Neel
Zackary Drucker is a dynamo, who, at the young age of 29, has created an insightful body of films, photographs and performances challenging gender normativity. Her work, which always intersects with her own transsexual identity, postulates queer alternatives to the status quo. She has staged performances inviting audience members to perform [...]
By Michele Robecchi
Without questioning the sacrosanct necessity of security measures, especially when it comes to protecting a massive, crowded and potentially vulnerable event such as the Olympics, the recent news of missile batteries installed on rooftops of Bethnal Green and many other neighborhoods surrounding London’s Olympic Park have raised a few eyebrows. Battered [...]
By Paco Barragán
It’s always tempting to search in the archives of “post-modernity” for the authentic sense of our times. For some writers and scholars, post-modernity has gone out of fashion, for others it’s simply dead, and for a third party it’s still alive and kickin’ (as the song says).
Be it discontent or fervor, the fact [...]
By Anne Swartz
Some feminist artists have used pornography as source material and made it a central part of their works. Such artists as Sylvia Sleigh, Annie Sprinkle, Lisa Yuskavage and E.V. Day have considered and engaged pornography as a liberating force in their works. Indeed, there is an appetite for images of sex [...]
By Jennie Klein
Feminist artists have not always been interested in motherhood. Helen Million Ruby, one of the founding members of the activist group Mother Art and a student at the Feminist Studio Workshop in the Los Angeles Woman’s Building, was told by Judy Chicago that she couldn’t be a mother and an artist-the [...]
Since 2002, Angela Strassheim’s photographs have probed female identity, family, religion, and memory with unflinching grit. Her inclusion in the 2006 Whitney Biennial: Day For Night was a break-out moment that launched her career and a media buzz about her work. Her photographic prints have been featured in half a dozen other museum [...]
Since 2005, Los Angeles-based artists Audrey Chan and Elana Mann have been revitalizing feminist practice with their collaborative projects that engage historic models of first- and second-wave feminist strategies fused with contemporary relational aesthetics and social engagement.
Chan is an artist, writer and educator whose work addresses civic discourse, rhetoric and the feminist construct [...]
By Maria Buszek
The inelegant but exceedingly apt term “authenticism” has been making the rounds in cultural criticism as of late, relating to a permutation of postmodernism evident in emerging artists’ reclamation of emotional, personal themes in their work. Fed up with the jadedness, irony and mean-spiritedness of much late postmodern art, it seems [...]
By Carla Acevedo-Yates
Can art instigate social change? What can previous attempts to produce activist art teach us? It is a difficult task to assess the social and political impact of activist art. But perhaps the questions that arise with the proliferation of these practices are more important than any answers we can find.
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Susan Silton’s art sneaks up on you where you least expect it, often in public, on power boxes, billboards and fumigation tents, in postcards and posters, in whistling crowds and on Facebook. Silton’s work is all about communication (and lack thereof) and power (and lack thereof). Silton has cultivated a thriving practice with her [...]
