Vagina Cake

I want a cake like this for my birthday! <3

Just some art...

Lynn Randolph... all i have to say is that she is one amazing female artist...











The Coronation of Saint George













Scenes From Hell

WACK

WACK: ART AND THE FEMINIST REVOLUTION: 1965-1980

http://www.moca.org/wack/













This exhibition is going to be amazing! From March 4th until July 16th 2007 the Geffen Contemporary at MOCA will be hosting a wide arrange of events and lectures. Lectures include Lucy Lippard (author of Pink Glass Swan: Selected Feminist Essays on Art), Lorraine O'Grady, and a book signing with Judy Chicago, an amazing feminist artist and was also featured in this season's "Bitch" magazine. On March 3rd the opening consisted of a performance by JD Samson and Johanna Fateman of Le Tigre! So if you're in Southern California you don't want to miss this. If you can't make it to the exhibition, at least check out the website. It has plenty of videos and podcasts and photographs of the artworks. ENJOY!

During the late 1960s and early ’70s, feminism fundamentally changed contemporary art practice, critiquing its assumptions and radically altering its structures and methodologies. WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution is predicated on the notion that gender was and remains fundamental to the organization of culture, and that a contemporary understanding of the feminist in art must necessarily look to the late 1960s and ‘70s. While the American feminist art movement coalesced in the late 1960s in the United States and is embedded within the exhibition, this international survey of 120 artists, activists, filmmakers, writers, teachers, and thinkers necessarily moves beyond the now-canonical list of American feminist artists to include women of other geographies, formal approaches, socio-political alliances, and critical and theoretical positions. This exhibition argues for simultaneous feminisms internationally that together and retrospectively can be viewed as the most influential movement in postwar contemporary art.

The exclamatory title of the exhibition is intended to recall the bold idealism that characterized the feminist movement during its second wave, as well as the acronyms of activist groups that protested institutions of all kinds beginning in the late 1960s. For many of the artists in WACK!, feminism often coexisted with political engagement on other fronts such as race, class, and sexual orientation that, at times, superseded feminism as the dominant discourse within which they preferred to situate their work. Many artists’ imagery is explicitly feminist in its foregrounding of the body, personal narrative, and biography. While some artists embraced a conceptual idiom, others explored family histories and narratives of subjugation; still others worked abstractly and obliquely exploring themes of gender. For artists working in cultural contexts where there was no language of feminism or feminist art, their work can retrospectively be read in feminist terms.

The themes that structure the exhibition and publication were imagined in various ways. Some function historically while others are formally inspired, some according to the ways that women artists organized in order to maximize the impact of the statements they were trying to make. This brochure is intended as a guide, providing one narrative through the exhibition and a tool for organizing the artwork you will see and experience.

Big Ups to Brooklyn

hello fine peoples,

I don't have much but check it out yo!

Brooklyn Museum recently opened the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art with an exhibition entitled Global Feminisms. I particularly like this photography piece entitled Bind by Ryoko Suzuki.

From the artist:

"The idea of "pig is cute" was implanted in me by adults through a cartoon, the "Three Little Pigs." However, breeding pigs I saw at a pig farm, when I was a child, were so huge and ferocious that I could never find any cuteness in them. That was the first time I realized that the fairytale world was far from the reality, and I felt betrayed by adults. That is why I employ the "Three Little Pigs" as a symbol of lies and fictions given by adults, which become exposed sooner or later in the process of a child's growth.

The "Bind" series expresses my inner self; a grown-up who left the world given by my parents and other adults and acquired my own thinking, and a woman who has to deal with the female sexuality. In the series, I bound myself with pigskin, which has been soaked in blood as a symbol of womanhood, as a symbol of the given world. I was thinking of my life, in which I had transformed from a child who just took what adults provided, to a woman who led her own life, while I wrapped up my eyes, nose, mouth, and ears with the pigskin. The series is a record of this action."
—Ryoko Suzuki

Check out more exhibition highlights:

http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/exhibitions/global_feminisms/

Any thoughts?

Peace and Love.