Roopa Casudevan:  All-American Girls

“All-American Girls” is a series of cross-stitches depicting who women voted for in the 2012 United States presidential election. The project juxtaposes the very traditional and stereotypically feminine craft of needlepoint with evidence of increasing female activity in American politics.

The number of colored stitches in each candidate’s name corresponds to the exact percentage of women who voted for that candidate in the selected state. Each pattern was generated with processing, using data from CNN exit polls taken on election night (Nov 6, 2012). The final patterns were then stitched by hand.

(Source: The Huffington Post)

womenartists:

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

“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.

sfmoma:

collectcuratecreate:

Janine Antoni, ‘Lick and Lather’, 1993, Chocolate and soap.

SFMOMA, Summer 2011

See this work online here.

The Only Thing Greater Than Her Hate Was His Love, 1980, collage, 116 x 87.5 cm

Loving and inspired by the modern collage work of German artist Astrid Klein today…

“Ana Rajcevic created her conceptual collection ‘Animal: The Other Side of Evolution’ at the London College of Fashion’s MA Fashion Artefact Program. Animal forms appear as extensions of the human body, suggesting “strength, power, and sensuality.”

The pieces she has created have a double life: on the one hand, are fashionable adornments, playing upon features of the human face, and, on the other hand, when seen alone, are covetable sculptures. Working in fiberglass, silicone rubber and resin, Rajcevic set out to create a collection of pieces which wouldn’t fall under the traditional mold of jewelry or accessories, and to develop a new type of artefact; precious objects which can be worn or exhibited. “

(via explosionspace)

Shirley Tse, Bleeding Heart, 2011

Vital Organs and Other Stories, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, through Mar 24, 2012

Major new found love for artist NYC Aurel Schmidt.

“And who can keep it all straight when Ms. Schmidt has built a career out of assembling the detritus of her louche life — coffee, lipstick, Corona bottle caps, Winston cigarettes, crushed Modelo beer cans, Hershey Kisses, Klonopin capsules, Trojan condom wrappers — and turning it into art.”

-From Raw Energy With A Girly Side, NYTimes, 2011

artlog:

Natasha Bowdoin, Kaa, 2011, pencil and gouache on cut paper, 20×20″.

“Natasha Bowdoin’s sculptural collages are also transcriptions of literature, though the words are illegible and her authors of choice include Lewis Carroll, Jorge Luis Borges, and Herman Melville…

It’s one way of interpreting Whitman’s celebration of form and sensuality: “if the body were not the Soul, what is the Soul?” ”