The five-female artist I will be writing
about are Wangechi Mutu, Eunice Golden, Ebony G. Patterson, Annie Leibovitz,
and Alyssa Monks. These women are powerhouse artists that use their life experiences,
race and other things that women face as struggles in our society.
The first artist is Ms. Wangechi Mutu who is a
Kenya born artist, she is a sculptor mostly and she also dose collages. She is
living and working in Brooklyn NY, also in her work the themes are about race,
gender, and colonialism. Her work Hundred Lavish Months of Bushwack is a
powerful piece, which illustrate a hybrid humanoid being hold up by a small figure.
They both have facial features of African descent. Furthermore, this piece is
about race and has a deep underline psychological value of how people of color
are seen or pixelated in paintings, books and other medias. This piece shows
how the colonizers and race dehumanize colored people has creatures and savages
because of language barriers and religious beliefs.
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| Wangechi Mutu, Hundred Lavish Months of Bushwack, 2004 |
Ebony G. Patterson
The
Studio Museum's Project Space will feature a new site-specific, mixed-media
installation by Ebony G.
Patterson on the subject
of violence committed against young people of color (including deadly police
actions) and the fears that focus on these same young people, who in the eyes
of too many people appear as threats rather than victims. In the artist’s
words, “These children are often described as adults. Their blackness overrules
the presumption of innocence.”
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. . when they grow up . . . will
present images of black youth in hand-embellished, large-scale, photo-based
wall works, juxtaposed with a variety of elements associated with childhood and
race. The installation will be designed so that visitors will negotiate the
space as if experiencing it from a child’s height. “I am hoping to create a
moment of beauty, 'sainthood,' and humanity,” Patterson states, “and to call
into question the stereotypes that are projected about black youth.
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. . when they grow up . . . is the
artist's first solo exhibition at the Studio Museum. Her work was previously
included in the group exhibition Caribbean: Crossroads of the World (2012). Patterson currently divides
her time between Kingston, Jamaica and Lexington, Kentucky.
Ebony
G. Patterson: . . . when they grow up . . . is organized by Lauren Haynes, Associate Curator, Permanent
Collection.
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| Ebony G. Patterson. . . they were just boys (. . . when they grow up . . .), 2016 |
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| Ebony G. Patterson, Swag Swag Krew (revised) from the out and Bad Series, Detail, 2011-13 |
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| Ebony G. Patterson, Brella Krew- From the Fambily Serie, Detail, 2011-13 |
The complexity of Ms. Ebony G.
Patterson’s work is phenomenal and the way she addresses classicism in her work
is unique because of the play on Jamaican Dancehall culture, which present in
the pieces I’d shared.
Annie Leibovitz
Annie
Leibovitz, considered one of America's best portrait photographers, developed
her trademark use of bold colors and poses while at 'Rolling Stone.'
QUOTES
“I sometimes find the surface interesting. To say that
the mark of a good portrait is whether you get them or get the soul - I don't
think this is possible all of the time.”
—Annie
Leibovitz
Photographer
Annie Leibovitz was born on October 2, 1949, in Waterbury, Connecticut. In 1970
she landed a job at Rolling Stone and went on to create a
distinctive look for the publication as chief photographer. In 1983 she began
working for the entertainment magazine Vanity Fair, continuing to
produce images that would be deemed iconic and provocative. Having also worked
on high-profile advertising campaigns, Leibovitz's images have been showcased
in several books and major exhibitions around the world.
Video: That's Continental | On The Road With Annie Leibovitz.
Ms. Leibovitz is a photographer which I consider
to be a feminist; in her work’s she not only captured the subject matter but
also the essence of the person in the photos. She also documented the effect of
war in the beginning of her career. The reason why I stated that Ms. Leibovitz is a feminist
art is because most of her work is about empowering women. She made many books
but one of her books have powerful women in the art world and other fields, the
book is a calendar. The Pirelli Calendar is the name of the book which feat
artist like Yoko Ono and others representing their birth month, also the photos
are in black and white, and was made in 2016.
Eunice Golden
Ms. Golden is an expressionism, figurative and abstract artist. She is a feminist painter from NYC. She best known work is about the exploring sexuality using the made nude, female gaza. Her work is not only painting its photograph and film making. her artwork is painting about the nude man body as a landscape painting have change the man gaza to the female gaza #girlpower.
Alyssa Monks
Ms. Monks is a super realism artist that because of the passing of her mother changed her life and art work. She is from N.J. her work beginning as painting about human figure in water. The loss of her mother made her art into landscape, abstract. She refunds herself and made super realism naturalistic. Her new art style is landscape portrait even though, Ms. Monks is not a feminist artist but all or most of her work is about women faces and in the woods. The video I shared is on the evolution of her work.
Eunice Golden
NEW YORK, NY
USA
Born in New York City, Eunice Golden departed from her early
studies in psychology at the University of Wisconsin to focus on her artwork.
As a figurative expressionist, she eschewed pop and minimal art, and explored
sexuality depicting the male nude. In the 1960’s, as her marriage was
dissolving, Golden’s dramatic artwork converged with and paralleled the ideas
expressed by the women’s liberation movement USA
Ms. Golden is an expressionism, figurative and abstract artist. She is a feminist painter from NYC. She best known work is about the exploring sexuality using the made nude, female gaza. Her work is not only painting its photograph and film making. her artwork is painting about the nude man body as a landscape painting have change the man gaza to the female gaza #girlpower.
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| Eunice Golden, “Landscape #160”©1972 |
Ms. Monks is a super realism artist that because of the passing of her mother changed her life and art work. She is from N.J. her work beginning as painting about human figure in water. The loss of her mother made her art into landscape, abstract. She refunds herself and made super realism naturalistic. Her new art style is landscape portrait even though, Ms. Monks is not a feminist artist but all or most of her work is about women faces and in the woods. The video I shared is on the evolution of her work.
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