Tag: Feminism
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Joy Gregory: Catching Flies with Honey
This survey show, spanning four decades, brings together more than 250 works from this innovative Black British artist
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Elaine Shemilt – interview
An artist and researcher, Elaine Shemilt is known for her pioneering work in feminist video in the 1970s. She talks about growing up during the Troubles in Northern Ireland, using her own body in her videos and why she sees…
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Futuristic feminist propositions read through the work of Wangechi Mutu
The third in a series of four essays that relate visual art and literature; here interlacing the works of Octavia Butler, Orlan, Valentine de Saint Point, and Mary Shelley to orient thoughts on the transhistorical power of Wangechi Mutu’s sculpture…
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Haptic Vision: Rosa Lee and Jo Bruton
Inspired by the American Pattern and Decoration Movement, Lee and Bruton emerged in the 1980s and cut through male-dominated preconceptions of what abstract art should be
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52 Artists: A Feminist Milestone
How has feminism changed in the past half century? This show revisits Lucy Lippard’s historic show and adds 26 new artists to the mix to create a carefully woven tapestry of conceptual crossovers and historical reverberations
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Joan Semmel – interview: ‘I was simply not excluding those who did not conform to any preconceived notions of beauty’
With a retrospective at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts covering 60 years of work, from her early abstracts to her nude self-portraits, Semmel looks back at her career and explains why she chooses to paint her own body…
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Billie Zangewa – interview: ‘I realised that I had chosen to embody the most disempowered human form’
Johannesburg-based Billie Zangewa, whose work is currently on show at Lehmann Maupin in New York, talks about her collages of domestic life, which advocate for self-preservation and the demystification of black women
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Kate Mieczkowska – interview: ‘I have always loved being in front of a big painting. It’s like a duvet, it wraps around you, and you’re lost in it’
The artist talks about the development of her art practice and her curatorial debut, Goddess Now
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Tamsyn Challenger: Free the Pussy!
The artist-curator Tamsyn Challenger talks about Free the Pussy!, the exhibition she has curated to showcase works made in response to Pussy Riot’s arrest in 2012, and the more general need for women to speak out, take control and reclaim…
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Zoë Buckman: ‘One role of feminism is to address and reframe how we construct masculinity’
The London-born, New York-based artist known for incorporating highly personal motifs, such as embroidered underwear, in her work, discusses feminism and the role women play within her art
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