Brooklyn Museum
Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art
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Untitled 2 (from Note to Self)
American Artist Mary Coble born 1978.
Untitled 2 (from Note to Self) was mad with inkjet print in 2005.
She had the first names of 438 lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender victims of hate-crime murders all over her body without ink.
She also has a ink tattoo, a rainbow-hued chain of figures symbolizing a diverse community.
The artist’s found out that anti-gay words were carved into some of the victims’ skin. She also discovered that there is not a lot of information on hatecrime statistics, since individual states are not required to report hate-crime deaths.
Untitled (Guanaroca [First Woman})
By Ana Mendieta
Ana Mendieta is a Cuban artist.
Ana was good at blending photography, body art, earth art, and performance art. She used her skills to express her feminism.
Mendieta drew her silhouette using materials such as crushed flowers, sculpted mud, or ignited gunpowder. She would take pictures or video tape them.
She also carved fertility figures into the beaches, caves and cliffs in Cuba. Ana called them, Rupestrian Sculptures. The Untitled (Guanaroca [First Woman]),is made of Gelatin silver Photograph. It was named after a indigenous goddess. Her work represents ancient traditions of goddess worship presence and identity.
Degrade’
By Ghana Amer
Heather’s Degrade’ is an abstraction of naked bodies of women performing sexual acts,over lapped and outlined in red.
This piece is made of Embroidery and gel medium on canvasin 2006.
Through the Large Glass
By Hannah Wilke
In The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even (The Large Glass) was made in 1976.
Wilke wore a fedora and a man’s white satin suit, performs man poses showing off the style of 1970s fashion. She uses herself to represent of women in art history and popular culture.
By Dara Birnbaum
Technology/Transformation: Wonder Woman 1978/9
Dara is a Video artist.
In Wonder Woman she repeats the character’s signature movements that she considers as the power of transformation.
The medium used is NTSC Digi-Beta Master (color, stereo sound).