Sally Brown Deskins Art

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New Website!

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New Website

Please See my New website! This one is now old!

https://sallydeskins.wixsite.com/feministart

THANKS!

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Another show!

Will have a pop-up this Friday in Morgantown at the Spring Arts Walk!:

Lots and lots of new drawings and prints...

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Saturday, April 6, 2019 at 7 PM – 9 PM The Black Cat Market5171 Butler Street, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15201

Bringing my art back to Pittsburgh! 

Come join us for our April art opening! Every month we will host local artists and their work. This month we will be featuring art from Sally Deskins! "Artist Sally Brown Deskins shares her recent body prints and small figurative drawings honoring feminist artists who came before her. In her body prints, Deskins, inspired by Yves Klein’s Anthropometries but with feminist intent as model, director and artist, prints her womanly body in various hues and scripts quotes from feminist artists over and around them, in order to remember their contribution. In an act recognizing their potential ill fate to history and the fact that just this artwork will not be enough (as other artists have attempted as well), she erases the quotes. Their names are left in the titles with open-ended parenthesis for hope. In her smaller, unassuming drawings, her line self-portraits are coupled with small mini-replications of famous feminist artworks, as art-within-art, paying tribute to feminist artists before her in a subtle, cool way. Deskins will also show some of her works from her What Will Her Kids Think? Series of drawings and body prints on motherhood and the body." https://www.instagram.com/sallery_art/ Doors at 7PM / drinks will be available for purchase. Unlimited cat room time during the event can be purchased for $5. If you're interested in displaying your art in the future, please email [email protected]

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She Came Before Me: Solo Show in Morgantown

I’m super stoked about showing my prints and drawings at Morgantown Art Party opening March 8 (International Woman’s Day) - to boot, live music by Haley Slagel will be happening too! Come join the fun!

https://www.facebook.com/events/2133900270020170/

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My art in IDK Magazine

Honored to be one of the featured artists in Issue 5 of IDK Magazine! It’s super cool, check it out!

http://www.idkmagazine.com/idk-issue-5/

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She Came Before Me: Solo exhibit at Biddle’s Escape, Pittsburgh

Super excited to show some of my new work, small drawings and body prints, dedicated to women and feminist artists at Biddle’s Escape in Pittsburgh. I’ll also bring some of my work from What Will Her Kids Think? series exploring motherhood and the body.

From the Biddle’s Escape FB Page: Biddle’s Escape, 401 Biddle Ave, Wilkinsburg, PA Feb. 2-March 2, 2019

Opening Reception Feb 2, 12-1pm

Artist Sally Brown Deskins shares her recent body prints and small figurative drawings honoring feminist artists who came before her. In her body prints, Deskins, appropriating Yves Klein's 'Anthropometries' as model, director and artist, prints her womanly body in various hues and scripts quotes from feminist artists over and around them, in order to remember their contribution. In an act recognizing their potential ill fate to history and the fact that just this artwork will not be enough (as other artists have attempted as well), she erases the quotes. Their names are left in the titles with open-ended parenthesis for hope. In her smaller, unassuming drawings, her line self-portraits are coupled with small mini-replications of famous feminist artworks, as art-within-art, paying tribute to feminist artists before her in a subtle, cool way. Deskins will also show some of her works from her What Will Her Kids Think? Series of drawings and body prints on motherhood and the body.

Body art (Tribute to Yayoi Kusama, work in progress, pencil and watercolor marker on paper, 2019

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I am on Instagram!

I made an Instagram page for just my art. Follow me if interested!

@sbd_body_art

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My zine in Duke & Columbia Libraries

In 2013, I collaborated with artist and zinemaker Scott Blake to create a zine around my series that year, “What Will Her Kids Think?” around motherhood, the body and womanhood. I know, super cool and honored to work with this amazing artist on this. He does stellar, provocative important work both solo and with several other amazing artists.

I just realized our zines are now in the Columbia University and Duke University Libraries collections--amazing! We only made 20 and they went quick, but you can check them out at these national collections. 

Some of my other books--Intimates and Fools, Leaves of Absence, and Les Femmes Folles, are also included in various Libraries. As “What Will Her Kids Think?” is an intimate and very significant work of mine I’m truly honored to have it in such fine collection.

The zines, before they were gone! in 2013. Covers were each originally body printed.

Some old press on it: https://thereader.com/visual-art/what_will_her_kids_think_new_work_by_sally_deskins/

https://www.omaha.com/momaha/blogs/motherhood-what-will-her-kids-think/article_c69dd7d6-cf74-5667-a3d8-a6e728c463d1.html

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BARE form exhibit @ MAC

Super excited to be participating again in the Monongalia Art Center’s annual BARE form exhibit, Nov. 2-30. I submit one of my most recent drawings in my continued “Art Time Mama” series of collaborations with my kids. My most recent ones have unfinished lines, pointing to an unfinished life. I like how it looks, the beauty of the unfinished, add your own lines, and it adds to my raw style and life.

Here’s the link to the exhibit!:  

https://www.facebook.com/events/278682072763929/

Sally Brown Deskins: “Art Time Mama (Infinity, Unfinished)”, watercolor, pencil and ink on paper, 2018, with H. Deskins

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Desperate Artwives at Platform 1 Gallery

Super stoked to have two of my “Art Time Mama” series in the upcoming Desperate Artwives pop-up exhibit at Platform 1 Gallery during the Wandsworth Open House in the UK in October! Here’s one of them. Super fun!

Sally Deskins: Art Time Mama (Devious Plan), with H. Deskins, 2016

https://wandsworthart.com/

http://www.desperateartwives.co.uk/

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Thrilled to have this collaborative mixed media “Art Time Mama (Infinity)” accepted into Women of Appalachia Art Project’s traveling exhibit series this fall/spring~

My work is nontraditional, raw and seemingly unfinished--though this is half purposeful (motherhood and artistry are always unfinished; and against the tradition of the pristine large realistically rendered “art” which most people think of) and half due to my reality of raw and unfinished-ness. I can work artworks to death but they still give off this feeling. It is not for everyone and I’m honored Women of Appalachia appreciated it, and honored to have art alongside so many tremendous Appalachian artists who happen to be women - https://www.womenofappalachia.com/exhibit-artists

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Student reaction to guest lecture on feminist art... #whyilovewomenartists

I wrote about guest-lecturing for a feminist theory class a few weeks ago, with regard to fluid feminist art (http://femmesfollesnebraska.tumblr.com/post/172271515522/whyilovewomenartists-fluid-feminism).

As mentioned, I got to talk feminist art with Women’s and Gender Studies students who weren’t necessarily well-versed on art and feminist art (to me they go hand in hand!). Not only had they not heard of Judy Chicago’s The Dinner Party, but not Womanhouse, either. (If you aren’t familiar, either, please, click on the links and be awakened ;) For a summary of my view on The Dinner Party read my article for Artslant.)

The professor kindly just sent me a student response from the end-of-semester course survey, which, after a quiet class who didn’t seem to respond to my presentation/discussion, made it soo worth it! :

The class about The Dinner Party excited me…because I had never heard of Judy Chicago or her feminist art before (fun fact-Judy Chicago is one of Time magazine’s 100 most influential people this year). I became temporarily obsessed with The Dinner Party and learned everything I could about it, read critiques of the work, and looked at all available photos of the plates. This taught me about awesome feminist art! Something that struck me during that discussion was when our speaker said that a vast majority of nude images are female, but the renowned artists that depict the nude female body are male.

Someone listened and even did their own research!! Thanks to Judy Chicago and all the feminists artists who make work to discuss and inspire. For this post I’ll show some images from Womanhouse… All text and images from womanhouse.net.

Womanhouse (January 30 – February 28, 1972)  organized by Judy Chicagoand Miriam Schapiro, co-founders of the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) Feminist Art Program. PIctured here, cover of the original exhibition catalog designed by Sheila de Bretteville. 

LINEN CLOSET

Sandy Orgel

As one woman visitor to my room commented, “This is exactly where women have always been—in between the sheets and on the shelf.”  It is time now to come out of the closet.

- Sandy Orgel

THE KITCHEN

Robin Weltsch

The soft skin of a kitchen pink Is openers, strainers, blenders Is cups, pots and hot ovens Is boxes, cans and glass packages Is faucets and nippled knobs A toaster, juicer and waffler All pink skinned How would you like your eggs done this morning?

- Robin Weltsch

BRIDAL STAIRCASE

Kathy Huberland

When I was young I had a belief that the White Knight would come and carry me off to eternal protected bliss.  I lived with this fantasy and did not think too far beyond a dreamy white wedding day.  My piece deals with the not so dreamy reality that, for most women, lies beyond that wedding day.  The bride is portrayed as an offering—encased in gaiety, in lace, in flowers, in dreamy sky blue.  As the bride descends the stairs the blue slowly changes to gray and the bride’s failure to look clearly at where she is going leaves her up against the wall.

- Kathy Huberland

CROCHETED ENVIRONMENT

Faith Wilding

Our female ancestors first build themselves and their families round-shaped shelters.  These were protective environments, often woven out of grasses, braches or weeds.  I think of my environment as linked in form and feeling with those primitive womb-shelters, but with the added freedom of not being functional.

- Faith Wilding

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Please visit http://www.womanhouse.net to see and read more about all of the artists and rooms from the 1972 experience.

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Les Femmes Folles is a volunteer organization founded in 2011 with the mission to support and promote women in all forms, styles and levels of art from around the world with the online journal, print annuals, exhibitions and events; originally inspired by artist Wanda Ewing and her curated exhibit by the name Les Femmes Folles (Wild Women). LFF was created and is curated by Sally Deskins.  LFF Booksis a micro-feminist press that publishes 1-2 books per year by the creators of Les Femmes Folles including the award-winning Intimates & Fools (Laura Madeline Wiseman, 2014) , The Hunger of the Cheeky Sisters: Ten Tales (Laura Madeline Wiseman/Lauren Rinaldi, 2015 and Mes Predices (catalog of art/writing by Marie Peter Toltz, 2017).Other titles include Les Femmes Folles: The Women 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2016 available on blurb.com, including art, poetry and interview excerpts from women artists. A portion of the proceeds from LFF books and products benefit the University of Nebraska-Omaha’s Wanda Ewing Scholarship Fund.https://www.facebook.com/femmesfolles/ instagram: @lesfemmesfollesart femmesfollesnebraska.tumblr.com lesfemmesfollesbooks.tumblr.com

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Stellar review by Linda Rosefsky for SECAC Online Reviews, of an exhibit I’m currently included in alongside artists Martyna Matusiak and Kelly Keifer at The Diamond Shop in Morgantown. She writes: 

“Sally Deskins’ playfully sensual Working Mother(Reflecting on Silliness, Three Bodies in Air to Infinity) (2017) features impressions of the artist’s body in black and magenta acrylic on Mylar (Full Disclosure: Deskins is volunteer managing editor for SECAC Online Exhibits Reviews.). Thighs, bellies, and breasts appear to soar against a reflective silver ground. Is Deskins inviting us to shed the restraints of the past and question how we view our own bodies? “

Thanks Linda!!

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I am so honored to be a part of the Women of Appalachia Fine Art exhibit this fall/winter/spring! I have three pieces in the traveling exhibit which is currently at the Parkersburg Art Center in Parkersburg, WV through Dec. 24; then on to Ohio University in Athens in January and so on (schedule here - https://www.womenofappalachia.com/events)...

I was thrilled to hear my body print, above left, “Tribute to Wanda Ewing (Being a woman artist...” was sold on the opening night in Parkersburg!

Just a reminder I’m open to body print commissions with colors, themes, etc. and any other ideas!  Get in touch. [email protected]. 

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Artist focusing on womanhood, motherhood, gender and the body with a sense of humor. Blog at femmesfollesnebraska.tumblr.com, art sallydeskins.tumblr.com. I tak Sally Brown Deskins

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“The Dinner Party”—beloved and maligned as it is—has long been misunderstood. Two new exhibitions look back to its creation to recontextualize the iconic work.

LFF editor Sally Deskins writes for Artslant today about the feminist controversies around Judy Chicago’s The Dinner Party, in light of the 2 new exhibits around the installation up now at Brooklyn Museum and National Museum for Women in the Arts.