Female artists have often been overlooked ever since the 1500's Renaissance. As styles change, women still face the same obstacles. Techniques and styles have changed from modernism to abstract to post modernism to now contemporary. However, obstacles have not changed much. Women still strive to get recognized. If asked to name famous painters, the first couple of names that come to mind would probably be male artists. As talented as women are, their work were put to the side, to say the least. If asked to name five female artists, who would come to mind?
Jordan Casteel
Jordan Casteel has always been aware of her surroundings during her school life and acknowledged more than just sights. She acknowledged problems and issues in society. Being raised as a black women in a black neighborhood, Casteel wanted to touch on what she was passionate about in the black community. Her art style unique because she uses bright colors to paint characters. Her paintings were also very large and painted on a canvas. She started to paint black men in "their natural habitat". She describes it as "black men simply being black". Casteel liked to paint portraits of people she was close with in her community such as family members and even her crush. Graduating from Yale gave her many opportunities as a painter such as featuring her work in a group show at HOME in Manchester, England. Casteel states, “Harlem and the people who occupy its streets have become the protagonist,” referring to the subject of her paintings. She now has a studio in New York City which brought her closer to her dreams of painting as a career.
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| Jordan Casteel, Miles and Jojo, 2015 |
Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum
Pamela Sunstrum told stories or responded to stories through her artwork.She was specifically interested in the human body when it came to telling or responding to stories. Sunstrum was a painter and performer; painting or drawing the human body and performing by getting her message across through her body was her talent. Since she was a dancer with trainer earlier in her life, she would draw or paint her figures strategically with technicalities. Sunstrum states, “I’m curious about how arms can hang, how knees can bend, how a back can twist—to suggest an entire identity or history even if it’s an invented one”. Sanstrum had many unanswered questions in life such as "where did we come from", and portrayed her adventurous mind through her artwork.
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| Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum – Panthea 02, 2016 |
Amy Sherald
Amy Sherald was interested in racial matters all throughout her life and portrayed this in her paintings. She painted scenes that depict her personal experiences and history that she was fond of. She went to school in Baltimore and received her MFA at Maryland Institute College of Art in 2004. As her career started, she became more interested in life around her and how far the African American rights have came. Sherald states, "These paintings originated as a creation of a fairy tale, illustrating an alternate existence in response to a dominant narrative of black history”, referring to the paintings that were featured in exhibits.
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| Amy Sherald, The Bather, 2015 |
Hayv Kahraman
Hayv Kahraman did not receive any professional training. She was self taught. Extremely interested in using her body as words she states, “I come from a diasporic culture where I’ve had to navigate being an Iraqi refugee in Sweden, Italy, and now the United States, so finding a common denominator, the body, became the perfect medium.” Kahraman had her own unique techniques to create her work. She's first start off by photographing herself, specifically in "Renaissance - like" poses. She'd then make drawings from those pictures and lastly paint them on a canvas. This was because Kahraman was inspired by Renaissance paintings and this was her way of portraying her own. Her art is now available at Jack Shainman Gallery’s The School in Kinderhook, New York.
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| Hayv Kahraman, Migrant3, 2010 |
Louisa Gagliardi
Louisa Gagliardi is a contemporary artist who specializes in graphic design. Being talented in many different types of art, Gagliardi digitally produced masterpieces. In order to make money and have a successful career, she had day to day jobs designing publications and advertisements for exhibitions and luxury brands. As she worked her way up to her private work, she called it "robotic figurative work". She states, “Even in my recent work, the subjects aren’t male or female, more avatars”. Gagliardi was interested in peoples most intimate thoughts, which she portrayed in her paintings. She was all about entering peoples thoughts, life, and soul. A technique she used to portray such ghostly images was her color palate. it was as if it was the "negative" of an image.
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| Louisa Gagliardi, Whispers in the Shade |
Sources:
http://www.jordancasteel.com/about/
https://www.artsy.net/artist/pamela-phatsimo-sunstrum
http://www.amysherald.com/
http://www.hayvkahraman.com/
http://www.artspace.com/magazine/interviews_features/qa/louisa-gagliardi-interview-vitamin-p3-54396
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