Dora Maar’s photomontages and Nan Goldin’s photo diary “The Ballad of Sexual Dependency” at Tate Modern, Cindy Sherman’s identity puzzles at the National Portrait Gallery, celebrate women as ...indomitable pioneers in photography. Berlin-based Candice Breitz’s video installation about refugees (Tate Liverpool); Zanele Muholi, who photographs South Africa’s LGBTQ community (Tate Modern); Korean installation artist Haegue Yang, who explores “non-binary artistic languages” (Tate St Ives); and the black British figurative painter Lynette Yiadom-Boakye (Tate Britain). Magnificently, the unknown 35-year-old Lithuanian artist Lina Lapelyte took the Golden Lion for her lyrical, inclusive, original performance installation “Sun and Sea (Marina)” about climate change, co-created with the director Rugile Barzdziukaite and the writer Vaiva Grainyte.
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The Wall Street journal. Eastern edition,
06/2010
Newspaper Article
In a May 17 Leisure & Arts story, "Fantastical Images of Dance-A Surrealist's Work for George Balanchine Goes On View After 50 Years," Mr. Littman said he had met Ms. Tanning before visiting her ...archive, had seen a costume drawing of a squid atop a pile of other drawings at the archive, and while there saw almost all the drawings included in the subsequent show.
Mr. Wood's still-life interiors often include rows of striped and speckled pots and planters that echo Ms. Kusaka's ceramics. Los Angeles dealer David Kordansky, who also represents the artist, said ...that Mr. Wood gives his works a conceptual edge by using the Internet, books and pop culture to appropriate source images for his paintings before blending these images with family photos or objects in his studio--a combination that makes the final product appear realistic but slightly off.
Mr. Wood's still-life interiors often include rows of striped and speckled pots and planters that echo Ms. Kusaka's ceramics. Los Angeles dealer David Kordansky, who also represents the artist, said ...that Mr. Wood gives his works a conceptual edge by using the Internet, books and pop culture to appropriate source images for his paintings before blending these images with family photos or objects in his studio--a combination that makes the final product appear realistic but slightly off.
Early on she survived by illustrating Macy's ads--sketching handbags, clouds of perfume, sylphs in fur hats or bathing suits--work she disliked but that bore connections to her uncanny canvases of ...girls with flying hair and writhing garments.
According to Lassnig, to be aware of your body does not mean to paint it as you see it, but as you feel it, as the object and subject of your introspection (Maria Lassnig: The Pen Is the Sister of ...the Brush, Steidl/Hauser & Wirth, 2010, 29). Promoted by the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism with the Uffizi Gallery, the Albertina in Vienna, the Maria Lassnig Foundation, and Firenze Musei, the Palazzo Pitti exhibition Maria Lassnig: Woman Power recognized her legacy as an artist who persisted over a long career and who celebrated the female body by making visible the sensations of her own body in the world. The exhibition showed that she criticized art history’s gendered stereotypes about the female body by offering a procedural look at that body’s ambiguous rapport with architecture, technology, domesticity, and the other material aspects of the nonhuman world.
The Shape-shifter Elkin, Lauren
Tate etc,
04/2019
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Magazine Article
Dorothea Tanning was an American painter, sculptor, writer and poet whose seven-decade career ranged from powerful early paintings that were heavily influenced by surrealism to extraordinary ...stuffed-textile sculptures. Here, we trace the trajectory of the artist's life and her compelling work. Born in Galesburg, Illinois in 1910, Dorothea Tanning was initially expected to become an actress; a series of photographs of her at age seven shows she had quite a flair for mugging and pulling faces: a born shape-shifter. But it was visual art that drew her, and she announced early on her intention to become a painter. When she was 15 she scandalised her parents by painting a naked woman with leaves instead of hair: they realised, to their horror, that their daughter was a 'bohemian'. It was 1942's Birthday, however, that would secure Tanning's future. That year Peggy Guggenheim was organising an all-female exhibition for her gallery, Art of This Century
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