Mary Beth Edelson, Loving Justice (Gena Rowlands), 1983–93; silk screen, transfer, oil paint gesso, acrylic paint, pencil, watercolor, gauche, ink, fringe and fabric; 12 x 10 inches
RE: Let’s Write Stories For These Illustrations
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Our deadline for the Tiny Book of Tiny Stories Vol. 2 is coming up, so now it’s time to focus in on some ILLUSTRATIONS THAT NEED STORIES!
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Resident Director wirrow has some direction for all you WRITERS out there:
There have been some insanely cool illustrations contributed so far. You can check out the “illustrations that need tiny stories” album. Go through the album, find an illustration you like, and WRITE A STORY!
After all, how can you leave them there without a story? That would be just… sad.
Thanks!
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Wanna know how you can contribute to our next volume of THE TINY BOOK OF TINY STORIES? Check this out!
If it inspires you…….
“Prune Nourry is a multi-disciplinary artist who finds pleasure in contradiction, whether in bioethics, mythology or even artistic materials. Although she hails from Paris and works in New York, for the past three years Nourry’s mind has been in India. She is currently wrapping up a three part project on gender selection in India entitled “Holy River.”
The title references the Ganges River, which is worshipped as the Hindu Ganga deity and deemed sacred through and through….Yet in reality the Holy River is one of the most polluted in the world, hazardous not only to those who bathe in it but to the surrounding ecosystem….
A similar paradox surrounds gender; while the female cow is praised for her fertility women are devalued and denied freedom. Gender selection began worsening the sex ratio in India in the 1980’s, and is estimated to create 25 million surplus males in India by 2020. After learning from academics, sociologists and scientists, Nourry presents us with the bizarre practices that worship a symbol while leaving a reality to drown.”
What a beautiful exhibition.
Vija Celmins.” Gun with Hand #1”. 1964
See this work on MoMA’s website here.
Adoration for Vija Celmins. She is not always talked about as a seminal CA artist in the 60s. I love the subject matter and graphic nature of all of her paintings. Still so modern.
Jenny Liz Rome
Wow thanks tumblr. I love her.
RIP Donna Summer, last dance will always be for you…
9001 Plays
Go see Cindy Sherman @ the MoMA. 11 West 53rd Street.
Runs through June 11.
…and it comes to SFMOMA on July 14!
So glad this exhibit is coming to the SFMOMA! Excellent news for the west coasters.
Opens Saturday, May 19, 6-8p:
”TWISTED SISTERS”
curated with Janet Phelps
DODGE gallery, 15 Rivington St., NYC
Twisted Sisters is an exhibition of works that are made by women artists and depict women as the subjects. Inspired by 1960’s performance works wherein women turned to the body as the site of creation and content, the exhibition casts the body as protagonist. - thru June 24
Interview: Kiki Smith and Jenny Holzer
SMITH: I remember when I first saw your work outside. For me it was really strange because, as an artist, I never thought about making things outside. Other artists were working with language, but it felt really radical to put it outside at the time.
HOLZER: I wasn’t sure I was an artist, so I thought maybe I just was throwing ideas out for people to consider. That took some of the pressure off. [laughs] The first street pieces were black-and-white posters with the Truisms, one-liners on many subjects written from multiple points of view. I went around late at night to paste these posters downtown. I put the next series of posters outside, too, the Inflammatory Essays.
Read more: Interview Magazine.
Tracey Emin
LEGS IV
2008Part of the “The Female Gaze: Women Look At Women” group exhibition at Cheim & Read.
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