Icelandic Artist!

Oh my god I love this woman. Her name is Sigga Bjorg Siggurdardottir.
Say that five times fast.

She lives and works in Glasgow and Reykjavik, and has been doing art since 2002. And that's all I can find on her.

To me her artwork is almost those adorable frightening creatures from your dreams...

their little outfits, gaping mouths, leaking faces, missing limbs, humorous actions, pointed feet... love it.
check out her website, super awesome.

anya liftig subverts marina abramovic

check out this interview with an artist who dressed up and totally infiltrated another artist's performance piece over the weekend! too cool.

amy cutler rocks my socks

Amy Cutler is super cool: brooklyn artist, does very narrative / folktale and detailed paintings

"While I absorb references through the media there are always underlying personal meanings in my paintings. Often it will be a year or more before I feel like I fully understand why I selected certain images and painted them the way I did".

http://www.tonkonow.com/cutler.html

Jennifer Linton!

http://www.jenniferlinton.ca/

So this wonderful artist, Jennifer Linton is definitely worth mentioning on this blog.

The images you see are from her recent alphabet series in pencil crayon (2007), which works off of the concept of the children's alphabet book as translated for adults, focusing on issues related to emotion and politics, from a personal, feminine perspective.

I really hope you check out the rest of her series on her web-portfolio, as well as her other work, it's really fab.

Other topics she explores in her other work include menstruation, pregnancy, gay and queer imagery, religion, consumerism, and the expression of emotion.

She harkens back in her imagery to symbols such as pomegranates, apes, and severed heads which tend to remind me of both Frida Kahlo and Artemisia Gentileschi.

She works mainly in pencil crayon, but also has some ties to printmaking techniques.

But I could talk all day, check her out for yourself...

Just for some Painful Laughs...

The Advantages of Being a Woman Artist:

Working without the pressure of success.

Not having to be in shows with men.

Having an escape from the art world in your 4 free-lance jobs.

Knowing your career might pick up after you're eighty.

Being reassured that whatever kind of art you make it will be labeled feminine.

Not being stuck in a tenured teaching position.

Seeing your ideas live on in the work of others.

Having the opportunity to choose between career and motherhood.

Not having to choke on those big cigars or paint in Italian suits.

Having more time to work when your mate dumps you for someone younger.

Being included in revised versions of art history.

Not having to undergo the embarrassment of being called a genius.

Getting your picture in the art magazines wearing a gorilla suit.

(This list was taken from http://www.arthistoryarchive.com/arthistory/feminist/)

new & improved

thanks so much for all your help, ladies - here's the new & improved version. i'm way happier with this one :)

sorry, so many posts!!!

new introduction to write-up, tell me what you think!

Our objective in our presentation is to address extreme feminist art through a specific dialogue: the revulsion and disgust of the audience. From shock to distaste, extreme feminist art ignites ideas, uncertainities, and repressed thoughts to the viewer. Our title, “Feminist Aesthetics of Disgust” emphasizes the importance of the viewer and their reactions to art work. The definition of disgust is a “strong repugnance, aversion, or repulsion excited by that which is loathsome or offensive” (OED). Michelle Meagher, an Albertan professor on feminist cultural studies, calls disgust “…a habituated emotion linked to and reflective of cultural paradigms…disgust is an attempt to render oneself distinct from that which disgusts”. Extreme feminist art involves the intimate, personal, and fragile thoughts and ideas that is present in the viewers' life: if the viewer acknowledges this presence, the viewer will become vulnerable. We chose to examine four different artists who, through their own (dis) taste, create disturbance and cross boundaries.