Many women artists demonstrate themes and different styles
or techniques of art within their work. The women described in this post have
been chosen to display their work at the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center located on
the 4th floor in the Brooklyn Museum.The exhibition titled agitprop, connects
modern art dedicated to social conformity tied together with many memorable
moments in history. It is stated that many artist use their work to reflect on
issues to try and create political changes as well. Not only in art, these
artist demonstrate their world through short films,songs, public
demonstrations, banners such as (flyers, signs, etc), websites and also films.
The basis behind this exhibition this would also be that it highlights social
justice from the pinpoint transition of the twentieth century. The artist I
have chosen would be Cecilia Vicuna, Nancy Buchanan,Jenny Polak, Laurie Jo
Reynolds, and Andrea Bowers. These contemporary female artist all demonstrate
different styles of their craft. Anywhere from women’s suffrage, anti lynching,
human rights, enviromental advocacy, and people who intend on protesting
against the war.
Cecilia
Vicuna is a poet, artist,filmmaker and activist from Chili who mainly discusses
ecological destruction, homogenization, and economic disparity. Born in
Santiago de Chile since the 1970’s been in exile since the murder of the newly
elected president. Her work is displayed within the Museo Nacional de Bellas
Artes de Santiago, the Institute of Contemporary Arts. Art in General, The
Whitechapel Art Gallery located in London, The Whitney Museum of American Art,
and the Museum of Modern Art in New York. along with that she has published
sixteen books as well. Some of her books would be Saborami (1973), The
Precarious/Precario (1983), Cloud Net (2000), and Split Temple (2010).
Nancy
Buchanan is an American artist known for her work in performing arts and video
art. She is known for her important role during the feminist art movement
throughout the 1970’s in Los Angeles. Her works are displayed within many major
Museums including the Museum of Mordern Art and the Centre Pompidou. She
creates videos that mix political aspects along with personal. At the peak of
the feminist art period she started including autobiographical and fictional
examples. Her work from her clashes with stereotypes by her unique style of
narrative genres. Alonside Paul McCarthy and John Duncan, she was a producer
for Close Radio. She also founded many art organizations including F Space
Gallery in California, Grandview Galleries at the Woman’s Building in Los
Angeles, and Double X.
Jenny Polak
was mainly a visual artist with several works displayed within The Lodge
Gallery as well as Franklin Street Works. She comes from England and contains
many migration stories that often fuel her work and drive to work at her full
potential. Her work has even been purchased at auctions such as “The Macedonian
Woman which sold at Lawsons. She has exhibited a lot in the UK as well as the
United States and has worked on projects for the Griffiths International
Sculpture Garden, the Rotunda Gallery and the Soap Foundation for Advanced
Study of Visual Art, as well as residences in Northwestern University, Newark
Museum, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council and the Lower East Side Tenement
Museum.
Laurie Jo Reynolds coming from Atlanta, Georgia is an
artist, researcher and a policy advocate whose work focus on the negative
perception of prisoners in today’s society as well as the past. Her works take
shots at the government and how they run the system in many different
departments. She has been doing a study for almost a decade on Tamms
Correctional Center, which is the supermax prison of Illinois which was made
for “sensory deprivation”. She states that it is the main representation of how
punitive and cruel the criminal justice system displays itself. She is well
known for her work in social practice as well as policy as stated before. She
has received several awards such as the Creative Time Annenberg Prize, Creative
Capital award for emerging fields. Open Society Foundation Soros Justice
Fellowship, Blades of Grass Fellowship for Socially Engaged Art,and the Opportunity Agenda Fellowship.
Andrea
Bowers is an artist from Los Angeles who focuses on a variety of media
including video, drawing, and installation. Her work most of the time catches
the perception of contemporary political issues, American history, and protest.
Her work is often very political but at times focus on the collective within.
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