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
