VANESSA GERMAN is a visual and performance artist based in the Pittsburgh neighborhood of Homewood. Homewood is the community that is the driving force behind German’s powerful performance work, and whose cast-off relics from the language of her copiously embellished sculptures. As a citizen artist, German explores the power of art and love as a…
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“Land: Zhang Huan and Li Binyuan” at MoMA PS1
Zhang Huan is the subject of a two-artist exhibition at MoMA PS1, Land: Zhang Huan and Li Binyuan. This exhibition juxtaposes videos and photographs of the early performances of Zhang Huan with those of recent performances by Li Binyuan to examine performance works by two Chinese artists of different generations that address the relationship between the…
DIAMOND STINGILY
Stingily’s work explores various themes of racial identity and feminity, memory and childhood, iconography, surveillance and paranoia as well as freedom. Much of her work is in direct response to her “social and economic background” growing up in West Chicago. Critics have reviewed her first two exhibitions favorably….
FEMINIST ART
Michele Pred was selected along with nineteen other artists for a special exhibition organized by Arts Westchester called, Give Us The Vote. The inspiration was the centennial anniversary for the women’s right to vote in NYS. State of the Arts NYC wanted to spotlight one of the…
ART FEMINIST SUPPORTS REFUGEES
According to The UN Refugee Agency, women and girls make up around 50 per cent of any refugee, internally displaced or stateless population, and those who are unaccompanied, pregnant, heads of households, disabled or elderly are especially vulnerable. In 2015, more than 21 million people were forced to leave their homes in order to…
