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<a href="http://www.wantuchart.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.wantuchart.com</a>
<a href="https://www.instagram.com/anna.wantuch.performer/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.instagram.com/anna.wantuch.performer/</a>
Topic
motherhood
mess
exhaustion
chaos
breastfeeding
social expectations
Medium
choreography
performance
video
photography
Artist Statement
In her works, she deals with the visibility of motherhood and parental themes. She is the author of a series of video performances MOT/HER KC in which she observed bodily changes during pregnancy. She presented the latter work at the Parallel Festival in Vienna, at the Cracow Art Week KRAKERS festival and many others. This work was shortlisted for the only international competition for caring artists, the Mother Art Prize, and was shown at a group exhibition in London in March 2023. Author of the performance Mothersuckers: A production about reproduction concerning the issue of motherhood, breastfeeding and being a mother artist.
Together with her husband, Filip Wańtuch, she explores the aspects of the interpenetration of what is private with what is public, as well as the threads of everyday life and home space with children. In the photo project Lovers they remix images of lovers from famous paintings, "putting" them into their bodies and the space of their own home. Since 2012, she has been experimenting with the movement of an adult with a child
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Anna Wańtuch
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Anna Wańtuch
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clarapistner.com
Topic
pregnancy
breastfeeding
identity
carework
Medium
video
super 8
drawing
painting
Artist Statement
Since my pregnancy in 2020 i started to very much concentrate my artistic work on my state of being and becoming. I begun a quite extensive research on artists and writers who did works about pregnancy, motherhood, birth, care work. Shocked by the invisibility of these subjects in the art context and at the same time convinced by their importance, also from a political and feminist point of few i got more and more obsessed. Finding bit by bit and above all finding very touching and strong pieces i got totally dedicated. I made an artist book containing all the art works, poems and text fragments i found combining my own works i did during my pregnancy, reflecting all the parallels, kinships and the very wide range of feelings and life realities and their expressions.
In the first few months after the birth of my daughter in February 2021, I reduced my artistic practice mainly to drawing. However, it became a constant with which I reflected extensively and profoundly on this unique and intense stage of my life. The few hours, rather minutes, of daily drawing became my very personal time of concentration on myself. Feelings, perceptions, needs, situations of everyday life - I just start drawing, quickly, while the child is still sleeping; see what's going on inside me - make me aware, show me what's on my mind. In terms of content and practice, the boundaries between diary and drawing, diary and art merge - which is why I basically call my practice of diary writing a part of my artistic practice and my artistic work my diary.
Different forms of diary have become infinitely valuable and fundamental for me and an incredibly satisfying, insightful practice that delighted, amused, surprised, amazed and confirmed me.
Since i always worked a lot with video, I also made several videos that describe the everyday life with my child. The simultaneity of being a mother, a caretaker and an artist who is striving to continue working and needing to process questions of identity, feelings of (inter-)dependency, tasks, responsibilities, ambivalent feelings, different roles, strong and also gradual changes of the self, and many more.
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clara pistner
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Clara Pistner
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Leah DeVun
Website
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<a href="https://www.leahdevun.com/in-the-age-of-mechanical-reproduction#14" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.leahdevun.com/in-the-age-of-mechanical-reproduction#14</a>
Topic
breastfeeding
birth
designed maternity objects
breast pumping
Medium
film photography
Artist Statement
I'm an associate professor at Rutgers University, where I teach in the departments of History and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. My scholarship, artwork, and curatorial practice reflect my interest in queer and trans history, science and technology, archives and collectives, and feminist activism. I'm the author of three books and edited volumes: The Shape of Sex: Nonbinary Gender from Genesis to the Renaissance (Columbia University Press, 2021); "Trans*historicities" (with Zeb Tortorici), a special issue of the journal TSQ (Duke, 2018); and Prophecy, Alchemy, and the End of Time (Columbia, 2009). My essays and reviews have appeared in Wired, Spot, Radical History Review, GLQ, WSQ (Women's Studies Quarterly), Osiris, ASAP/Journal, postmedieval, Journal of the History of Sexuality, and a number of books. I've lectured internationally and received grants and residential fellowships from the National Science Foundation, University of Wisconsin-Madison, UCLA, the Huntington Library, and the Stanford Humanities Center, among others.
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bex ya yolk
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Leah DeVun
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<p><a href="http://www.celiarocha.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.celiarocha.com</a></p>
Medium
drawing
photography
installation
social practice
Location
The location of the interview
Santa Ana
California
Artist Statement
<p>I am a Portuguese interdisciplinary artist living and working in Southern California. My lived experience and my interest in activism are the driving forces in my creative process. I use my artwork as a tool for activism, drawing on social issues that have affected me on a personal level, such as my experience of motherhood, the politics of childbirth or sexual violence. My artwork explores universal issues of gender and collective identity, culture, memory and loss, while it is imbued with the feeling of saudade, a typically Portuguese trait roughly translated as a nostalgic longing or yearning of someone or something of the past.</p>
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<p>I have used a wide range of media - including painting, installation, social practice, video and sound - but drawing and photography remain at the core of my practice. Influenced by Vija Celmins's drawings, Andrea Bowers use of text and activism and Suzanne Lacy’s commitment to social justice, my work examines inequality and is borne out of a desire to call attention to the often invisible and overlooked issues that affect primarily women.<br /><br />@celiarochastudio</p>
Topic
parenting
caretaking
pregnancy
labor
childbirth
motherhood
maternal
c-section
cesarean section
natural birth
home birth
feminism
breastfeeding
baby clothes
babies
children
maternal mortality
Exhibitions
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2021 <a href="https://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/606" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Maternochronics</a> | Virtual exhibition | maternochronics.com
2018 Maternal Matters | Bolsky Gallery | Otis College of Art and Design | Los Angeles
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Célia Rocha
babies
baby clothes
breastfeeding
c-section
California
caretaking
cesarean section
childbirth
children
drawing
feminism
home birth
labor
maternal
maternal mortality
motherhood
natural birth
parenting
photography
pregnancy
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<a href="http://www.kasiecampbell.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.kasiecampbell.com</a>
Medium
photography
Location
The location of the interview
Edmonton
Alberta
Canada
Topic
breastfeeding
nursing
care taking
motherhood
parenting
breastmilk
pumping milk
newborn
newborn care
postpartum
postpartum anxieties
grief
mourning
Covid-19
pandemic
Exhibitions
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<a href="https://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/606" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Maternochronics</a>
Artist Statement
<p>It almost feels like I have spent the past two years in isolation. I’ve been consistently trying to navigate my <span>artistic</span> practice through intense waves of grief over the loss of my mum, infertility/miscarriage, and a fear of dying. Things have shifted in the last 4 months, with added postpartum anxieties, healing associated with childbirth, obsessive tracking of my baby’s feeds, breastfeeding struggles and COVID 19. With the COVID pandemic, there were increased anxieties surrounding my newborns health. Will my baby be okay? What if my baby gets sick? What about check-ups? Am I feeding my baby enough? what if my milk dries up and I can’t feed my baby? What if I get sick and can't feed my baby? Am I spending adequate time with my oldest child?</p>
<p>As a way to ease my anxieties, I started pumping breast milk. I would pump at 5:00 every morning after our first feed. I began writing thoughts or worries along with the date on each bag of breastmilk. I would then photograph the bags of breastmilk as a way to document life postpartum, anxieties about mumhood and life in COVID19. The act of pumping breastmilk and freezing was a ritualistic and meditative way for me to cope and eased anxieties around getting sick and not being able to feed my baby.</p>
<p>Postpartum anxieties are exacerbated by the times we are living in.</p>
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Kasie Campbell
breastfeeding
breastmilk
Canada
care taking
Covid-19
grief
motherhood
mourning
newborn
newborn care
nursing
pandemic
parenting
photography
postpartum
postpartum anxieties
pumping milk
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Emily Zarse
Website
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<a href="https://www.emilyzarse.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.emilyzarse.com/</a>
Topic
mothering
maternal body
intergenerational connection
exhaustion
postpartum
breastfeeding
care
matrescene
maternochronics
Medium
fiber
natural dyes
found objects
Artist Statement
Cloth has a memory like the body. I create fabric installation that explore the precarity of the postpartum body. Residue of physical and emotional trauma are captured on the surface of the floating maternal forms. Color from foraged plants and “saddened” with iron and calcium, records the depletion of energy and essential nutrients used to grow new life.
Emily Zarse is an installation artist working with the language of natural dyes and fiber processes to explore the maternal body and matrescence. She received a degree in Costume and Textile History from Cornell University and is currently a MFA candidate at Indiana University.
Location
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Bloomington
Indiana
USA
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Emily Zarse
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Emily Zarse
breastfeeding
Care
exhaustion
fiber
found objects
intergenerational connection
maternal body
maternochronics
matrescence
mothering
natural dyes
postpartum
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<a href="https://www.lesliefandrich.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.lesliefandrich.com/</a>
Topic
bodies, pregnancy, the womb, breastfeeding, dependance, family relationships, domesticity
pregnancy
the womb
breastfeeding
dependance
family relationships
domesticity
Medium
textiles
fabric
found objects
sculpture
collage
mixed media
Artist Statement
My feminist, interdisciplinary art practice considers the interplay between subject and object and the liminal nature of our bodies. I create objects and spaces that may allow the viewer to re-experience and recall moments of transformation from childhood. I am interested in the boundaries of our bodies and how we are in relationship to our domestic spaces and to each other. I am interested in the pregnant/nursing/mothering body and how it holds and cares for other bodies and how our bodies change, age and need repair.
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Leslie Fandrich
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Leslie Fandrich
Bodies
breastfeeding
collage
dependance
domesticity
fabric
family relationships
found objects
mixed media
pregnancy
sculpture
textiles
the womb
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<a href="http://www.Mpetersonart.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mpetersonart.com</a>
Medium
photography
Artist Statement
<p><b>I focus on reclaiming the iconic image of the nursing mother through a photographic series of 35 continuous frames documenting the last time I nursed my infant titled </b><b><i>Jamie’s Last Breast. </i></b><b>In the images my child is clothed while I am disheveled and openly processing the intense loss that this moment signifies. The images highlight the contrasting experiences of the mother and child. The unfiltered documentation of this process is meant to be a rebuttal and a resistance to the traditional and often religious representation of the relationship between the mother and child in which the emotional experience of the mother is negated.</b></p>
Topic
nursing
weaning
breastfeeding
Location
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New Hampshire
USA
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Michelle Peterson
breastfeeding
nursing
photography
weaning
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<a href="http://www.Theartofhintz.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Theartofhintz.com</a>
Topic
breastfeeding
motherhood
growth
Medium
painting
oil
gouache
Artist Statement
I am a painter working primarily with oils and gouache creating abstractions with saturated colors, geometric patterns, and natural forms. Art making, particularly painting, has long been an integral part of my identity. I've chosen to hold space and time in my life for painting repeatedly because it functions as a vehicle for introspection, meditation, and exploration. Making patterns by repeating simple shapes requires patience, commitment, and faith in many small gestures to build the whole. I use recurring motifs inspired by personal experience, Judeo-Christian religious spaces, and mother nature herself. Often my pieces will start from direct observation like a moonrise, a meadow in late fall, or the wind moving grasses. As the paintings grow, I intuitively add layers of abstraction and symbolism such as the flower of life, the star of David, and phases of the moon. My painting has explored the intersection between my desire for the familiarity and community of organized religion and being drawn to a more solitary spiritual practice rooted in nature. Currently my work is turning to explore themes of motherhood, breastfeeding, and creating life.
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Jen Hintz Eggers
breastfeeding
growth
motherhood
-
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<a href="http://monyarowegallery.com/artist.php?aID=259" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://monyarowegallery.com/artist.php?aID=259</a>
Medium
acrylic on panel
Location
The location of the interview
Brooklyn
New York
USA
Artist Statement
<div class="field two columns alpha">I make paintings centering around my daily life. I paint what I know or think I know about the everyday experience of being alive. The paintings tend to explore the intimacy of domestic space The quieter familiar and private moments at home or abroad. I paint self portraits and portraits of my husband and child. They reflect part of the ritual or routine of life. This is the world of my home, wherever that maybe. I work from photos but also from the memory of those moments. It is what is there and sometimes from what I want to be there. Like any work from life there are a lot of truths and untruths.</div>
Topic
birth
pregnancy
breastfeeding
domestic life
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Polina Barskaya
acrylic
birth
breastfeeding
domestic life
pregnancy
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<a href="http://www.jenniferlugris.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.jenniferlugris.com</a>
Topic
motherhood
family
marriage
child
breastfeeding
identity
BIPOC
immigration
multiculturalism
biracial
family history
ancestors
California
Uruguay
South Korea
North Korea
Medium
painting
Artist Statement
I grew up in a house where asado was eaten with kimchi and where dinner conversations seamlessly shifted from English to Spanish to Korean and sometimes even Galego. My Korean, Uruguayan, Spanish, and Portuguese backgrounds lead to multi-cultural, idiosyncratic, ill-fitting puzzle pieces that make up who I am. Likewise, my multi-panel paintings are intensely fractured, creating conflict upon close inspection of the juxtaposed illusionistic and abstracted, flattened and textured forms. I disrupt the continuity from one piece to the next, as well as, push and pull on figure and ground to play with how front-to-back are perceived. Growing up, I received many quizzical looks as individuals attempted to understand and piece together my varied, ethnic background. I wish to recreate that same experience in my paintings by provoking the audience to question and work to find connections that pull the piece together. Comparable to the oddly placed blocks in the paintings, which are linked through composition and color palette, I too, am linked by a unified body made up of mixed traditions and ancestries.
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Jennifer Lugris
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Jennifer Lugris
ancestors
BIPOC
biracial
breastfeeding
California
child
family
family history
identity
immigration
marriage
motherhood
multiculturalism
North Korea
South Korea
Uruguay
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<a href="http://www.milkdiaries.weebly.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.milkdiaries.weebly.com</a>
Portfolio: <a href="http://www.manabette.weebly.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.manabette.weebly.com</a>
Topic
motherhood
breastfeeding
parent-child mutual dependence
learning from the child
collaboration of mother and child
inclusion in the family
mother's aim to sustain herself from art making
Medium
writing
painting
photography
collage
drawing
natural fibre
singing
dance
Artist Statement
<span>I choose to celebrate my art through motherhood, and my motherhood through art. My work will promote inclusion and equanimity and will connect me to my child and my self.</span>
Location
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Lithuania
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Agnieszka Olszewska
breastfeeding
collaboration of mother and child
collage
dance
drawing
inclusion in the family
learning from the child
mother's aim to sustain herself from art making
motherhood
natural fibres
painting
parent-child mutual dependence
photography
singing
writing
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<a href="http://www.gracecross.net" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.gracecross.net</a>
Location
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Cape Town
South Africa
Artist Statement
Grace Cross (b. Harare, Zimbabwe 1988) is a material painter who draws symbols about motherhood, home, belief structures, and land; making shipting recipe's rooted in feminism, history, performative archaeology and African cosmology, to reflect her experiences of cultural transmission. Her painting practice, since the birth of her daughter, focuses on female storytelling, spirituality, and mining symbols of motherhood in her lush and colourfilled canvases. Her paintings seek to represent a cosmological world, where paint weaves images together to work as spells or incantations. The painded symbols thread ideas together, daming and mending, compositionally sewing the symbolic into the real, tethering the objects to one another. She traces a history of laboring women, their bloodline, their red thread of fate, through her paintings - <em>placenta red, metnrual red, nipple-suked-raw red. </em>This is the tie that binds - an umbilical cord - the maternal line. The thread is fine buth strong; it will not come undone; even as it unspools, running from the distant past to the present, from one canvas to another. Cross lives and works as a mother and painter in Cape Town
Topic
motherhood
parenting
breastfeeding
gender-based violence
play
caretaking
symbolism
fertility
nutrition
latch
food
storytelling
matriessence
babies
pregnancy
archaeology
feminism
psychic trauma
womb
birth
awakening
child's play
language acquisition
poetry
burdens
reproduction
patterns
textiles
women's work
domesticity
labour
performative
painting
spirituality
bloodline
Exhibitions
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<em>Mother is a Drum, </em>2019, Smith Studio, Cape Town
<em>Atlas is a Woman, </em>2020, The Vault, Zeitz Silo Hotel, Cape Town
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Grace Cross
archaeology
awakening
babies
birth
bloodline
breastfeeding
burdens
caretaking
child's play
domesticity
feminism
fertility
food
gender-based violence
labour
language acquisition
latch
matriessence
motherhood
nutrition
painting
parenting
patterns
performative
play
poetry
pregnancy
psychic trauma
reproduction
spirituality
storytelling
symbolism
textiles
womb
women's work
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Exhibition Archive
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Exhibition Title
motHER/child
Exhibition Website
<a href="https://www.michaelinesander.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.michaelinesander.com</a>
Gallery
Sander Design and Art Consulting // SDAC
Location
The location of the interview
Richmond
Virginia
USA
Curator
Michaeline Sander
Curatorial Statement
SDAC is excited to share with you a group exhibition, celebrating the art of six local women and their works inspired by motherhood. motHER/child will be shown online from June 22, 2020- August 14, 2020, at www.michaelinesander.com. As we move this show online in what was previously planned as an in-person experience, we want to find ways in which the audience can connect to the imagery digitally. Feel the fabric of the soft sculptures by Sarah Dolan, see the details and layers in the collages by Shantell Lewis and be able to process the content of the works by all the artists in this show without being physically in front of the pieces in an alternative gallery setting where we normally would meet you.
motHER/child is a very important show that we have been putting together for over a year to bring to our audience. We want to share stories through the artwork about the journey to and through motherhood. Everyone has their own experiences and struggles some heartbreaking and some full of joy. All of these stories are important and should be heard. We are here creating a space for discussion and to share in the admiration of motherhood for all of those who are mothers, were mothers, or are still trying to become a mother.
Through experiencing these women’s artwork, we hope to open up the conversation about this experience in life - how it doesn’t all go according to plan, how it’s not all perfect social media approved photos. This is life, and this is the real documentation of that. Please share, please ask questions, please listen to your bodies - women are amazing and so strong- we created this show as a celebration of that.
Artists
<a href="https://artistparentindex.com/items/show/347" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sarah Dolan</a>
Paris Brower
Olivia Phare
Shana Blakely
Amanda Ryan Tucker
Shantell Lewis
Duration
Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.)
June 22- August 14
Topic
TTC
loss
postpartum
change
joy
infertility
motherhood
breastfeeding
pregnancy
birth
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Title
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motHER/child
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Artist Parent Index
Person
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Website
The Artist's website
<a href="http://www.carrascoart.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">carrascoart.com</a>
Topic
birth
postpartum
newborn
breastfeeding
stretch marks
postpartum body
black mother
Mexican mother
breast milk
multipara
natural birth
Medium
oil on canvas
Artist Statement
I paint what I know. Sometimes it involves communicating perceptions, relationships, and feelings too difficult for me to put into words. I'm inspired by depth, continuity, love, faith, and multi-generational connections, the most meaningful things we have, and sometimes what we lose. There is a certain forgiveness of myself I must practice each time I paint. Raising a family with six children at home and caring for a mentally ill parent means that painting sessions are reduced to blocks of time lasting an hour or less. Painting in this manner reflects my current life circumstances in hurried brushstrokes and imperfections that reveal my most authentic voice.
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Lupita Carrasco
Title
A name given to the resource
Lupita Carrasco
birth
black mother
breast milk
breastfeeding
Mexican mother
multipara
natural birth
newborn
oil on canvas
postpartum
postpartum body
stretch marks
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Title
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Artist Parent Index
Person
An individual.
Website
The Artist's website
<a href="http://www.anadiaknox.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.anadiaknox.com</a>
Topic
breastfeeding
nurturing
postpartum body
sexuality
motherhood
parenthood
Medium
performance
sculpture
installation
video
photography
Artist Statement
My most recent body of work utilizes themes relating to body, identity and time, from the perspective of a mother, partner and individual. I am interested in the ways that nurturing and caring for a child translates as occupational labor, and how this makes common cause with the working class by exploring the laborious nature of parenthood. I approach these ideas through various methods, including casting, construction and performance. While the different series in this body of work investigate separate ideas relating to roles of the postpartum body, a shared use of material can be seen throughout. Construction materials such as wooden pallets, 2x4s and scaffolding reference blue collar workforce, while breast milk storage bags and nursing pads suggest the time-consuming and repetitive notions associated with motherhood. The series in this body of work evolves as my role as a caretaker evolves, and aims to question how modern society values parenthood.
Location
The location of the interview
Loris
South Carolina
USA
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Alexandra Knox
Title
A name given to the resource
Alexandra Knox
breastfeeding
installation
motherhood
nurturing
parenthood
performance
photography
postpartum body
sculpture
sexuality
video
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Title
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Artist Parent Index
Person
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Website
The Artist's website
<a href="http://www.alisonchen.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.alisonchen.com</a>
Medium
video
photography
performance
Location
The location of the interview
Los Angeles
California
USA
Artist Statement
Through video, performance, photography, and text, I explore the complexities and confusions<br />that surround the act of love and the dynamics of vulnerability. What are the areas where our<br />preconceived notions fall short. How do we hold on to beauty amidst fear and failure? My work<br />approaches motherhood from within this framework as I process the ramifications of the<br />transformation into “mother” and the simultaneous shift in her relationship to time and mortality.<br />Ultimately, the work explores the concurrent existence of bliss and fear, birth/life and death,<br />resistance and acquiescence.
Topic
motherhood
loss
miscarriage
breastfeeding
postpartum body
Exhibitions
Exhibitions in the Index that an artist has participated in. The two entries will be linked.
Color: Coded, New Art Center, Newton, MA
<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/495">Painting at Night, Fort Houston Gallery, Nashville, TN</a>
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Title
A name given to the resource
Alison Chen
breastfeeding
loss
miscarriage
motherhood
performance
photography
postpartum body
video
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Title
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Artist Parent Index
Person
An individual.
Website
The Artist's website
<a href="http://www.diabassett.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.diabassett.com</a>
Medium
fiber
found objects
performance
painting
Location
The location of the interview
San Diego
California
USA
Topic
parenting
caretaking
breastfeeding
dyad relationship
microbiomes
touch
nurturing
napping
sleep
babyhood
toddlerhood
pregnancy
postpartum
anxiety
hapiness
physiology
nature
biology
Artist Statement
<span> I use distorted and erratic renditions of drawing and fiber techniques such as crocheting, weaving, and wrapping to build sculptural installations varying in size. My process begins when I encounter fabrics that are sourced from family and friends. The tactile experience of touching the fabrics can lead to an intimate, thoughtful meditation when I ponder the history of a garment. Who wore or used this? Where were they going or what were they doing when they used it? I may cut the fabric into long continuous thread, draw onto it, or sew it into a wearable sculpture. Dense forms and linear elements take shape as I let the qualities of the materials guide me. The improvisational aspect of my practice allows unpredictability to prosper.</span><br /><br /><span>Inspired by my own experience of entering motherhood, I want to show the power of the mother’s body and how she influences the infant physically as well as emotionally, intellectually, and spiritually. Sometimes my work takes shape as figurative drawings of the nursing relationship I have with my daughter. I incorporate repetitive text into the drawings that speak to the ever-changing mental space of becoming a mother—the anxiety and worry, the joy and gratitude. Other times my work becomes sculptural, utilizing the curvealinear forms found in nature and women’s bodies. Looking at nature’s processes of decay, entropy, rupture, and unraveling, I find an ever-increasing affinity to my body. Becoming a mother has begun to transform the art I make as I see the kinship to nature more clearly. I want viewers to reconnect with their own vulnerability as well as their strength, as motherhood has required I do so in a more profound way. Within this state of vulnerability and power, I believe we can access the sensitivity that will facilitate our collective empathy.</span>
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Title
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Dia Bassett
anxiety
babyhood
biology
breastfeeding
caretaking
dyad relationship
fiber
found objects
happiness
microbiomes
napping
nature
nurturing
painting
parenting
performance
physiology
postpartum
pregnancy
sleep
toddlerhood
touch
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Title
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Artist Parent Index
Person
An individual.
Website
The Artist's website
<a href="http://www.clairegreenshaw.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">clairegreenshaw.com</span></a>
Medium
drawing
sculpture
Location
The location of the interview
Toronto
Canada
Artist Statement
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Working from a feminist perspective and employing images and materials from daily life, Claire Greenshaw engages with the tensions that arise from the ambiguity of representation. She channels this into humorous and idiosyncratic poetic gestures that provoke questions around perception, the complexities of history and systems that create and enforce the values we live by.</span></p>
Topic
parenting
motherhood
labor
time
humor
art history
breastfeeding
gender
Exhibitions
Exhibitions in the Index that an artist has participated in. The two entries will be linked.
Mother Tongue, Clint Roenisch Gallery, 2017<br /><br /><a href="Mother%20Tongue, Clint Roenisch Gallery, 2017. https://clintroenisch.com/archive/2017-2/mother-tongue/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://clintroenisch.com/archive/2017-2/mother-tongue/</a>
<p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Artist’s Studio is Her Bedroom, Contemporary Art Gallery, 2020.</span></i></p>
<p><a href="https://www.contemporaryartgallery.ca/exhibitions/the-artists-studio-is-her-bedroom/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">https://www.contemporaryartgallery.ca/exhibitions/the-artists-studio-is-her-bedroom/</span></i></a></p>
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Title
A name given to the resource
Claire Greenshaw
Canada
drawing
sculpture
Toronto
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Artist Parent Index
Person
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Website
The Artist's website
<a href="http://www.catherinereinhart.com/#/topography-of-dwelling/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://www.catherinereinhart.com/#/topography-of-dwelling/</a>
Topic
care economy
artist/mother studio
breastfeeding
Topography of Dwelling
socially engaged art
drawing
hair
braiding
acts of care
fiber art
Medium
fiber art
video
sculpture
drawing
found textiles
socially engaged art
Artist Statement
Topography of Dwelling seeks to make visible the invisible labor of caregiving through intentional record keeping and the collection of domestic detritus. This body of work includes drawings, rubbings, sculpture, fiber works, and video. Tending to one’s home and family takes copious amounts of time dealt out across tedious and repetitive efforts. This work, often done by women, is incalculable and undervalued. Tasks such as laundry, braiding, and lawncare serve as fodder for works exploring the themes of tending, labor, and time. The use of hair is central. The ritual of braiding is a powerful act of care enacted daily on a disinterested beneficiary, my daughter. Using recorded data from these sessions and topographic maps from the Midwest, I make drawings that map both my home and natural landscapes. For Maternal Studies |Material Studies, I collect hair from my children and ancestors in glassine envelopes. Stratums of dyed fiber and rubbings taken from discarded textiles reference sedimentary layers and the state of my laundry pile. Taking an anthropologist’s gaze, I attempt to illustrate my experience as a home[maker]. This is a gaze which includes objects and artworks, similar to exhibitions found in a natural history museum. This body of work is a study in the accretion of the domestic life and a catalogue of its labors. As an artist/mother, my role is that of archivist and field hand. My aim is to show the value of such labors and the futility inherent in pursuing them.
Location
The location of the interview
Iowa
USA
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Contributor
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Catherine Reinhart
Title
A name given to the resource
Catherine Reinhart
acts of care
artist/mother studio
braiding
breastfeeding
care economy
drawing
fiber art
found textiles
hair
sculpture
socially engaged art
Topography of Dwelling
video
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Title
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Artist Parent Index
Person
An individual.
Website
The Artist's website
www.billieireland.co.uk
Topic
birth
breastfeeding
breastfeeding multiples
twins and motherhood
Medium
mixed media
Artist Statement
This recent body of work charts my experience of pregnancy and motherhood. As a recent mother to twin boys and a daughter I document this alien state, with all its mystery and ambivalence, both physical and emotional. I explore the meanings of two very different experiences of pregnancy, birth and nurturing. Pregnancy and birth stirred up the loss of my own mother, loss of myself and the stark reality of my own mortality.
I want my images to embody and echo the inherent contrasts of strength and beauty with loss and conflict. The cycle of birth and death, light and dark appear obliquely and more obviously, interwoven with intergenerational and universal experience. The works evoke deep dichotomies and the eternal cycle. Carrying and feeding identical twins meant naturally creating symmetry in images. It also calmed and created space to meditate on my acts of feeding and my physical positioning. In contrast the organic visceral nature of the more abstract paintings attempt to visualise the unseen workings of the birthing body and beyond.
It is always fundamental that I grapple with materials and processes, creating images that capture a spiritual dimension through the use of ancient and traditional techniques. The time intensive preparation of gesso grounds, carved and layered, permanently record these fleeting moments. I draw using hair fixed with wax and egg yolk. I burn into paper and use fluid paint and intense mark making.
The work includes humour, a necessary component to creating artwork against the background of the constant demands of three very young children. Their contribution is an exciting and essential part of the work, both materially and emotionally. Without them this work would not exist.
Exhibitions
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<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/449">The hormone, the hermit, and the hairy moon</a>
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Contributor
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Billie Ireland
Title
A name given to the resource
Billie Ireland
breastfeeding
breastfeeding multiples
mixed media
twins
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Title
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Artist Parent Organization Database
Service
An organization supporting artist parents.
Location
The location of the interview
Baltimore
Maryland
Topic
maternal form
maternal body
motherhood
postpartum
maternal relationship
mother-child relationship
identity
race
pregnancy
form
weight
postpartum body
abstract
figurative
magazine
publication
visual art
photography
creative writing
breastfeeding
milk
maternal experience
fruit
About
Containing an intentionally curated body of work, conceptually driven, and visually
focused, MILKED is a new publication that focuses on the undertones of the maternal figure.
Styled like a newspaper, and published as a book, this full color, 8.5” x 14” publication features
76 pages of visual art, photography and written word by international, female artists. MILKED is
an independent project, initiated and curated by Lee Nowell-Wilson and designed by Darin
Michelle. Both artists. Both mothers.
Organization Website
<a href="http://www.leenowellwilson.com/milked-magazine" target="_blank" rel="noopener">leenowellwilson.com/milked-magazine</a>
<a href="http://www.milkedmagazine.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">milkedmagazine.com</a>
Organzation Director
Lee Nowell-Wilson (founder, editor, and curator)
Darin Michelle
(creative director and designer)
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Title
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MILKED
abstract
breastfeeding
creative writing
figurative
form
fruit
identity
magazine
maternal body
maternal experience
Maternal form
maternal relationship
milk
mother- child relationship
motherhood
photography
postpartum
postpartum body
pregnancy
publication
Race
visual art
weight
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Title
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Artist Parent Index
Person
An individual.
Website
The Artist's website
<a href="http://www.lexmarie.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.lexmarie.com</a>
Medium
acrylic
acrylic on canvas
Location
The location of the interview
Maryland
USA
Artist Statement
As a contemporary artist, I create based on visuals concepts of the imagination and real life. Including abstract techniques in my portraits and other pieces, allows room for the audience to connect to each body of work and identify themselves somewhere in the storyline. Uniquely I chose to opt out of outlining as done in my previous works, and focused on using bold color choices. My art represents my story, but I know it’s a story many know well. <br /><br />In my Mother and Son series, I hope to reflect the honesty and beauty of motherhood, the ugly too. It’s far from perfect for any parent. No matter what walk of life you come from, this series is personal, it’s transgenerational, it’s ours. Mother and Son is a reminder that I’m not alone in this everchanging journey and makes light of precious fleeting moments along the way.
Topic
parenting
art
motherhood
artist/mother
artists with children
breastfeeding
son
children
everyday
everyday life
single mother
single mothers
women artists
Exhibitions
Exhibitions in the Index that an artist has participated in. The two entries will be linked.
Artist Mother Studio x Project for Empty Space
Publications
A catalog or monograph published by the artist
Maternal Journal #2
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Title
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Lex Marie
acrylic
acrylic on canvas
art
artist/mother
artists with children
breastfeeding
children
everyday
everyday life
Maryland
motherhood
parenting
single mother
single mothers
son
USA
women artists
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Exhibition Archive
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Exhibition Title
Of Printbearing Age
Gallery
Second State Press
Location
The location of the interview
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Curator
Sarah Pitrus
Curatorial Statement
Of Printbearing Age examines the work of mother artists whose printmaking and child-rearing are contemporaneous.
Duration
Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.)
October 10 - November 30, 2019
Topic
printmaking
motherhood
breastfeeding
Artists
<div>Tina Arsenault</div>
Alexandra Blom
Kristy Cavaretta
Amy Cruz
<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/347" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sarah Dolan</a>
Jennifer Farrell
Piper Groves
Jess Hill
Martha Knox
Deborah Maris Lader
Lisa Lofgren
Kelda Martensen
Jocelyn Mathewes
Erin Maurelli
Rachel Schlothan
Aftyn Shah
Sarah Shearer
Anne Smith
Jillian Sokso
Raychel Steinbach
Amy Torgeson
Miriam Tribe
Kim Van Someren
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Title
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Of Printbearing Age
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Title
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Artist Parent Index
Person
An individual.
Topic
motherhood
birth
blood
womb
yoni
breastfeeding
children
sex
grandmothers
symbolism
myth
feminism
Medium
acrylic
ink
collage
watercolor
mixed media
fiber
wheatpaste
Artist Statement
Tiana Traffas is currently creating a series titled Arcana Ma. Arcana meaning secrets or mysteries, Ma as in mother or motherhood: mysteries of motherhood. This ever unfolding body of work explores the taboos and experiences of motherhood through archetype, personal experience, mythology and symbolism from the ancient goddess cultures to modern-day mamas. It also includes work that views the other phases of womanhood, maiden to crone, and the life-death-rebirth cycle through the len of motherhood. Arcana Ma only exists because of her daughter's birth. The artist's initiation into motherhood cracked her wide open into a psychedelic and potent transformation, leaving her reborn on an emotional and spiritual level. The act of birth and the continuous trip of motherhood is the inspiration for this series.
Location
The location of the interview
La Crosse
Wisconsin
USA
Exhibitions
Exhibitions in the Index that an artist has participated in. The two entries will be linked.
<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/439">WHY MOM</a>
Website
The Artist's website
<a href="https://tianatraffasart.bigcartel.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://tianatraffasart.<wbr />bigcartel.com/</a>
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Tiana Traffas
Title
A name given to the resource
Tiana Traffas
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Title
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Artist Parent Index
Person
An individual.
Website
The Artist's website
<a href="http://www.kasiaozga.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.kasiaozga.com</a>
Topic
pregnancy
motherhood
birth
breastfeeding
Medium
works on paper
Artist Statement
My work begins and ends in the human body. Our remnants (what we cast off and leave behind in the form of waste, trash, memory etc.) ground and connect us to the earth. My work asks where the things in our lives come from and where they go once we’ve used them. By representing and re-animating remains, I explore the potential of materials to ask questions and to evoke larger environmental relationships. <br /><br />I treat the products of our culture as physical remains of our bodies and explore how we generate objects as physical extensions of ourselves. With man-made forms, materials, and processes, I extend, inhibit, and modify elements of the human body. I reuse, up-cycle, and revalue regular, standardized, and mass-produced materials into something one-of-a-kind and special to invert the associations we make with different types of detritus. My raw materials are manufactured products with a particular use history and product life cycle. Whether bastardized industrially produced goods in the white cube or surreal interventions in public spaces, my work explores the limits of functionality and worth.<br /><br />I give a human dimension to physical sites by foregrounding their historical/narrative aspects and input human features into sterile goods by cutting, breaking, gluing, and carving them into forms that evoke the human body. These artworks are at once physical things and conceptual spaces. Through the physical labor and limitations of my own body, I questions which bodies are present and missing in political and cultural discourses. I explore the anatomical potential of the female body as a material metaphor for our actions that ask viewers whether our current situation is fixed or not and how change can emerge.
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Kasia Ozga
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Kasia Ozga
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Artist Parent Index
Person
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Website
The Artist's website
<a href="http://www.toritinsley.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">toritinsley.com</a>
Topic
motherhood
breastfeeding
caregiving
hugs
Medium
painting
Artist Statement
My paintings and sculptures explore the all-consuming love in caring for another. Hugging bodies, dark humor, and the use of exaggerated facial features allow for the expression of the layered emotions experienced in such close proximity; feelings including joy, fear, anxiety, and adoration. These works not only serve as enduring monuments to the fleeting moments between two reliant beings, but they also highlight how painting can expose the essence of such intimacy.
Location
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Atlanta
Georgia
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Tori Tinsley
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Tori Tinsley
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Website
The Artist's website
<a href="http://Www.jilllavetsky.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Www.jilllavetsky.com</a> Instagram @jilllavetsky
Topic
breastfeeding
early motherhood
caring for an infant
mother baby bond
Medium
watercolor
Location
The location of the interview
Florida
USA
Exhibitions
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<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/495">Painting at Night, Fort Houston Gallery, Nashville, TN</a>
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Jill Lavetsky
Title
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Jill Lavetsky
breastfeeding
caring for an infant
early motherhood
mother baby bond
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Artist Parent Index
Person
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Website
The Artist's website
<a href="https://kiaelena.format.com">https://kiaelena.format.com</a>
Topic
early parenthood
identity
accidents
adulthood
anxiety
art making
artist mother
motherhood
baby
birth
breastfeeding
building
caregiving
domestic object
everyday
exhaustion
daily routine
guild
feeding the family
humor
loss of self
Medium
photography
Artist Statement
Nothing can prepare you for parenthood is a phrase often shared with a knowing half-smile that belies the over-exhaustion in the wake of superiority (or is it pride?) . Replying with hollow grins, I secretly wanted to smack every single person who uttered that phrase. And yet, they were right. For the record, also totally justified in their self-satisfaction. It turns out that something as ubiquitous and ‘natural’ as growing, giving birth to, and caring for your progeny has a long adjustment period. It’s not just the changing diapers, the schedules, the meal times, the money, the dressing, the undressing, the endless battle for sleep. It’s not just the negotiation of how your time is spent, and how to best care for your family, your home, and your future. A year in, and I still don’t feel like I’ve joined the ranks of those we call “parents” or “mothers.” This series, made from moments stolen during the odd nap or distraction, is a reckoning and a tool. It’s an attempt to connect who I was with who I have become, now that my life is filled with the incessant though profound mundanity of clearing scraps of food from a high chair, finding matching socks, nursing, teaching, exposing, loving–performing the theater of life to an awed audience of one.
Location
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Providence
Rhode Island
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Kia Elena Petrovic Davis
Title
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Kia Elena Petrovic Davis
early parenthood
identity
photography
Providence
Rhode Island
USA
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Exhibition Archive
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Exhibition Website
<a href="https://www.masseyklein.com/the-end-the-beginning">https://www.masseyklein.com/the-end-the-beginning</a>
Gallery
Massey Klein Gallery
Location
The location of the interview
New York
USA
Curator
Ryan Massey
Curatorial Statement
<span>Massey Klein is pleased to present </span><em>The End & The Beginning</em><span>, a two-person exhibition exploring themes of life and death through works on paper by Alice Gibney and Sarah Irvin. </span><br /><br /><span>Alice Gibney’s illustrations in </span><em>The End & The Beginning</em><span> are humorous explorations of humanoid and animal figures. Her characters twist, rise, dance, and praise; their movement captured through frames as if they are sequences in a stop-motion film. The charcoal, color pencil, and ink on paper drawings range in scale from 1:1 ratio of human proportions to small, intimate sketches.</span><br /><br /><span>Gibney’s works were created in response to a sudden and unexpected loss of a loved one. Her figurative drawings began to blur and erode as the artist’s emotional life and identity spread itself across the paper in a performative gesture of mourning and reflection. Celtic myths, slapstick humor, and Samuel Beckett became the beacons of light that shifted the artist’s perspective and made room for grief to evolve into a new tale. And so these characters were born to tell a new story: one wrought with paradoxes and clumsiness. They belong to a world that is not ours, but has the flavor of somewhere familiar. A tent, a child’s playtime sculpture, synthetic wigs, and exaggerated clothing cover their frames and become their bodies.</span><br /><br /><span>Gibney is a Canadian artist who lives and works in Berlin, Germany. This is her second exhibition with the Gallery.</span><br /><br /><span>Sarah Irvin’s graphite drawings on paper record the experience of new life and motherhood. At various times while breastfeeding, the artist created drawings that codified her daughter's action of eating. Loops go up with a suck and round down with a swallow, transcribing the unreadable language of a baby at the breast. Also while breastfeeding, Irvin used a digital program to track the start time, breast side, and duration of each feeding. From this immense amount of data, the artist created an interactive sculpture resembling a card catalogue that allows the viewer to not only review different sessions, but physically acknowledge the significant amount time and energy needed for an often unacknowledged task. </span><br /><br /><span>In the artist’s rocking chair series, the act of caring for a baby is codified as a form of mark-making. Pieces of graphite hung from the underside of Irvin’s glider rocking chair and created marks on a piece of paper attached to the stationary base. The series began when her daughter was born and was completed the day she turned one. Anyone who used the rocking chair during the first year of the child’s life participated in the creation of the works. In addition to the original works on paper, the Gallery will release a limited print edition of the first and last breastfeeding and rocking chair sessions as well as a small edition of breastfeeding record logs for the collector to “complete” on their own.</span><br /><br /><span>Irvin is an American artist who lives and works in Richmond, Virginia. This is her first exhibition with the Gallery. </span>
Artists
Alice Gibney
Sarah Irvin
Duration
Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.)
January 11 - February 17, 2019
Topic
breastfeeding
rocking chairs
infant care
parenting
data visualization
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The End & The Beginning
breastfeeding
data visualization
infant care
New York
rocking chair
USA
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Artist Parent Index
Person
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Website
The Artist's website
<a href="http://laurenfrancesevans.com/">http://laurenfrancesevans.com/</a>
Medium
sculpture
collage
video
installation
Location
The location of the interview
Birmingham
Alabama
USA
Artist Statement
As an artist, I am intrigued by the materiality of the flesh and believe it to function as a microcosm that points to various aspects of the immaterial human experience. Years before ever becoming a parent, I was already fascinated by the spiritual and cosmic significance of the human belly button and its relationship to the creative act. As a child I pulled at mine, trying to flip it inside out. Years later, as a graduate student, I poured plaster into it regularly, making castings of its negative space. The belly button is the first mark that life leaves on the body; it is a scar that points to our origins.
Many creation myths describe our world as originating from a central point. The Greek term omphalos (navel) can refer to various symbolic centers that are believed to connect the earthly and divine. Just as the human belly button marks our connection to (and inevitable separation from) our mothers, these so-called navels of the world are often associated with myths of cosmic origin, functioning as physical markers of the very sites at which our earth was supposedly born into existence. This symbolism can be found across cultures and religions: ziggurats, temples, holy mountains, the tree of life, and more.
I’m excited and inspired by the navel, umbilical cord, and placenta as both site and symbol of the simultaneity that is embedded in the human experience. Questions of origin and existence are constantly shaping how I think about my creative work, and my belief is that the work of the artist, and perhaps especially the mother artist, is primarily ontological. Just as the human belly button marks both a connection to and a separation from our physical origins, the work that I make points to a similar simultaneity of opposites, referencing the body’s attraction and repulsion but also the immaterial void of human longing in us all.
Before becoming a mother, I thought of attachment and separation as psychologies experienced by the child. I didn’t realize until experiencing it firsthand that, not unlike the blood circulating through the placenta, these psychologies very much go both ways. I’ve been thinking a lot about this entanglement and have been working it out in a recent body of work. At times I imagine vividly that my daughter and I are still connected by this cord. It’s a tug of war. Often, I tug at the cord, longing for my independence from her, and more often than not, she tugs to bring me closer, unwilling to let me exist apart from her.
Topic
pregnancy
breastfeeding
let down reflex
placenta
umbilical cord
belly button
knots
faith
religion
christianity
attachment
extended breastfeeding
creative act
origins
symbolic centers
Virgin Mary
Christ
breastmilk
breast milk miscarriage
birth and death
birth
artist mother
artist parents
art
artist network
artist/mother
artist/parent/academic
bedsharing
cosleeping
body
bodies
boundaries
devine feminine
early motherhood
early parenthood
education
embodied motherhood
embroidery
family and career
female body
feminist
gestation
lactation
Madonna
maternal
materiality
milk
nursing
pieta
subjectivity
teaching
ritual
Exhibitions
Exhibitions in the Index that an artist has participated in. The two entries will be linked.
Wrapped Up, Tied Up, Tangled Up – solo – 2019 – Samford Art Gallery – Samford University – Birmingham, AL
ArtFields – 2019 - The ROB – Lake City, SC
Art|Mother – Unfinished Business Art Show – 2019 – Los Angeles, CA
Are We There Yet? – CIVA Juried Exhibition (forthcoming - June) – 2019 – Johnson Gallery– Bethel University – St. Paul, MN
Simultaneous Letdown – solo – 2019 (forthcoming - October) – Gatewood Gallery – University of North Carolina, at Greensboro – Greensboro, NC
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Title
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Lauren Frances Evans
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Person
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Website
The Artist's website
<a href="http://emiliawhite.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://emiliawhite.com/</a>
Medium
performance
video
animation
Location
The location of the interview
Ann Arbor
Michigan
Artist Statement
Mother Skins is an interactive photo performance series about motherhood,
self-identity and postpartum depression. Wearing colorful full-body suits with neutral faces sewn
into them, participants photographed themselves doing various domestic tasks in relation to
their roles as mothers. The photographs reveal moments of tenderness and mundanity while
playfully addressing the alienation that many mothers feel after having a child. The images
included in this selection were taken by Emilia White.
Topic
parenting
motherhood
caretaking
postpartum depression
humor
identity
performance
photography
costume
mask
bodymask
alienation
solo parenting
loneliness
mundanity
toys
messy house
laundry
domestic chores
vacuuming
young children
breastfeeding
Exhibitions
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Something Growing Inside, TrustArt Gallery, Ann Arbor MI, May 2018
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Emilia White
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Person
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Website
The Artist's website
<a href="https://www.tracymarietaylor.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.tracymarietaylor.com</a>
Location
The location of the interview
Chicago
USA
Artist Statement
Cried Milk (2018 - present)
Cried Milk uses data collected from a smartphone app to visualize what it looks like to exclusively breast pump for twelve months. Each visualization represents one month of data. The blue rings represent one hour, the change in value tracks the hours of sunlight and darkness, while the change in saturation indicates broad weather patterns (sunny versus cloudy). The straight lines each represent one day and the yellow circular bursts represent each 30-minute pumping session. The size of each circle correlates to the quantity of milk collected. This project connect to broader cultural conversations about motherhood. As infertility rates continue to skyrocket, many women experience motherhood through a similar, clinical lens. My hope is that this project gives voice to the millions of women who have struggled to become mothers and honor the under-valued labor of motherhood.
The Shape of Your Sounds (2017 - present)
Using audio surveillance technologies provided by a commercial baby monitor, I capture my baby’s cries and translate that data into visual shapes. The sound waves loop back on themselves in a 360-degree rotation. The result is vaguely reminiscent of the shape of a flower; each burst of sound looks like a petal. The initial purpose for this project was to try to find visual patterns that could be more easily interpreted. However, I quickly realized this was a fool’s game; the visual patterns are as indiscernible as his sounds. Therefore, what remains is a visual record of a moment in time; a beautiful reminder of those sleepless nights when the world was comprised of just my son and myself.
Sleep Regression (2016 – 2017)
“Sleep Regression” is a series of intimate works that were painted in the space of nap times and record the moments I watched my son while working in my home studio. The paintings’ small size and blue palette reproduce the video format and color, mimicking the tension between the close, private space of sleep and the distance created by the act of surveillance. The effects are eerie and disturbing images of rest. Lingering in the unconscious state of sleep the baby’s body looks lifeless. Are these representations of a sleeping child or a fetus? These works are thus unusual documents of baby’s first year of life–odd surrogates for the family photo album.
The gray-scale paintings, on the other hand, reinforce the reference to the sonogram, creating layers of distance. The painting series thus portrays an interesting paradox: the increasing stylistic abstraction chronicles my catharsis after years of fertility struggles as I move further away from my past sorrows, yet the works also reflect a turn inward and becomes more specific to my body (womb) and more private. The delineated forms in black, white, and grey look like the thermal imaging of a birth–drapery resembles the uterine wall, a dark ground morphs into a vaginal opening.
Topic
abstraction
aesthetics
art
artist mother
baby
baby food
bodily transformation
breast milk
breast pump
breastfeeding
breastfeeding advocacy
breastmilk
care
care taking
care work
caregiving
caretaking
communication
conceptual art
contemporary art
creative practice
creative practice and family life
cyborg
daily life
daily routine
daily tasks
data
data tracking
data visualization
documentation
domestic life
domesticity
early motherhood
everyday activities
exhaustion
family and career
feeding
female body
female experience
feminism
feminist
feminist art
food
food systems
gender equality
gender roles
good mother
grief
growth
guilt
healthcare
human body
infant care
invisible labor
isolation
lactation
let down reflex
loss
maternal experience
maternal healthcare
maternal time
medical care
milk
milk jug
money
mother and child
mother artist
mother guilt
mother work
mother/child relationship
motherhood
motherhood and economic context
motherhood as art practice
mothering
motherwork
mundane details
nature vs. technology
nursing
nursing mothers
parental leave
personal
personal boundaries
personal experience
personal space
pumping
record keeping
remembering
repetition
repetitive tasks
representations of motherhood
research and art
sleep deprivation
social norms
son
technology
time
unpaid labor
visualizations
women's health
women's identity
audio waves
archive
care labor
crying
data visualization
documentation
emotional space
infants and sleep
language
language development
sleep training
Exhibitions
Exhibitions in the Index that an artist has participated in. The two entries will be linked.
2018- “Fits and Starts,” Roman Susan Gallery, Chicago, IL
2018- “The Shape of Your Sounds” (solo), Sonnenschein Gallery, Lake Forest College, Lake Forest, IL
<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/471">2019 - "While I Was Away" (solo), Roman Susan Gallery, 1224 W. Loyola Ave. Chicago, IL</a>
<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/495">Painting at Night, Fort Houston Gallery, Nashville, TN</a>
Medium
acylic
flashe
sculpture
digital
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Title
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Tracy Marie Taylor
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The Artist's website
<p class="p1"><a href="http://www.jessdobkin.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">jessdobkin.com</a></p>
Medium
performance
social practice
Location
The location of the interview
Toronto
Canada
Artist Statement
<p class="p1">I’ve been a working artist, curator, community activist and teacher for more than 25 years, creating and producing intimate solo performances, large-scale public happenings, socially engaged interventions and performance art workshops and lectures. My practice extends across black boxes and white cubes, art fairs and subway stations, international festivals, and single bathroom stalls. I’ve operated an artist-run newsstand in a vacant subway station kiosk, a soup kitchen for artists, a breast milk tasting bar, and a performance festival hub for kids. I’m forever inspired by the rebel queers, renegade witches, and other dyke moms I run with, and bound to many brilliant artists, activists, spell-casters and healers. <span class="s1">For many years I made performances that drew from my own experiences of trauma and transformation, intimacy and motherhood. More recently, I’ve experienced a shift in my practice, where my attention has turned to wider theoretical questions about the nature of performance itself to </span>ask questions about when, where, how we perform - in theatres and galleries, on social media, and in our everyday lives.</p>
Topic
abjection
activism
adulthood
aging
archive
art
art and research
artist mother
art making
artist parent
artist/mother
artistic labor
artists with children
autobiography
binary tensions
bioethics
biology
birth
birth and death
birth trauma
bleeding
body
body exploration
body transformation
breast milk
breast pump
breastfeeding
breastmilk
care
censorship
childhood
creative practice
creative strategies
cultural reproducers
culture
curating
curation
curator
curatorial practice
documentation
domestic labor
domestic life
domestic space
domesticity
early motherhood
early parenthood
empathy
ethics
exhaustion
family
family accessible event
family portrait
feminism
feminist
feminist art
feminist art theory
gender
gender roles
gender stereotypes
human body
humor
identity
interdisciplinary
intimacy
invisible labor
lactation
love
materiality
maternal
maternal body
maternal bodies
maternal care
maternal desire
maternal experience
memory
menstruation
mess
milk
mother
mother artist identity
mother as artist
mother body
mother/artist identity
mother/child relationship
motherhood and political context
motherhood
motherhood and art
motherhood and art practice
motherhood and creative practice
motherhood and social context
motherhood and studio practice
motherhood as art practice
mothering
mothers
nursing
nursing mothers
objectification
parent
parent artists
parent/child relationship
parenthood
parenting
parents
patriarchy
performativity
personal experience
play
subjectivity
power
public breastfeeding
public space
pumping
queer
queer identity
queer parenting
representation
representations of motherhood
research and art
resistance
ritual
rituals
sexuality
single mothers
single mother
social justice
social practice
stories
storytelling
theory
time
transformation
trauma
vagina
visual culture
woman
women
women and gender studies
women artists
women representation
women's health
women's identity
Exhibitions
Exhibitions in the Index that an artist has participated in. The two entries will be linked.
The Lactation Station Breast Milk Bar 2006, 2012, 2016
Imagined Family Portraits 2007 - ongoing
Free Childcare Provided 2013
Fee for Service 2006
Being Green 2009
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Title
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Jess Dobkin
abjection
activism
adulthood
ageing
archive
art
art and research
art making
artist mother
artist parent
artist-parents
artist/mother
artistic labor
artists with children
autobiography
binary tensions
bioethics
biology
birth
birth and death
birth trauma
bleeding
body
body exploration
body transformation
breast milk
breast pump
breastfeeding
breastmilk
Care
censorship
childhood
creative practice
creative strategies
cultural reproducers
culture
curating
curation
curator
curatorial practice
documentation
domestic labor
domestic life
domestic space
domesticity
early motherhood
early parenthood
empathy
ethics
exhaustion
family
family accessible event
family portrait
feminism
feminist
feminist art
feminist art theory
gender
gender roles
gender stereotypes
human body
humor
identity
interdisciplinary
intimacy
invisible labor
lactation
love
materiality
maternal
maternal bodies
maternal body
maternal care
maternal desire
maternal experience
memory
menstruation
mess
milk
mother
mother artist
mother artist identity
mother artists
mother as artist
mother body
mother/artist identity
mother/child relationship
motherhood
motherhood and art
motherhood and art practice
motherhood and creative practice
motherhood and political context
motherhood and social context
motherhood and studio practice
motherhood as art practice
mothering
mothers
nursing
nursing mothers
objectification
parent
parent artists
parent/child relationship
parenthood
parenting
parents
patriarchy
performativity
personal experience
play
power
public breastfeeding
public space
pumping
queer
queer identity
queer parenting
representation
representations of motherhood
research and art
resistance
ritual
rituals
sexuality
single mother
single mothers
social justice
social practice
Stories
storytelling
subjectivity
theory
time
transformation
trauma
vagina
visual culture
woman
women
women and gender studies
women artists
women representation
women’s health
women’s identity
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Website
The Artist's website
<p class="p1"><a href="https://www.marketas.net" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.marketas.net</a></p>
Medium
drawing
painting
bookmaking
Location
The location of the interview
London
United Kingdom
Artist Statement
My practice is closely linked to my personal life. There are no boundaries between me and the viewer. Through drawing, painting and bookmaking I am sharing my internal experiences in work that has the intimacy of a personal diary."
Currently I am exploring the subject of motherhood, mother-artist and female energy. The body's transformation, experienced as transition - from girl to woman, daughter to mother - is a central them in the work.
Topic
motherhood
diary
mother's diary
breastfeeding
labor
mother-artist
pregnancy
body
body's transformation
female energy
Exhibitions
Exhibitions in the Index that an artist has participated in. The two entries will be linked.
2018
(8) – Festival de dessin (drawing festival)
La Nouvelle Manufacture, Ardeche, France
(https://www.lanouvellemanufacture.org)
Publications
A catalog or monograph published by the artist
M.A.M.A. Issue n.31: Marketa Senkyrik and Robin Silbergleid - mother's diary (for Kaya) - on-line monthly on-line publication featuring art, academic and creative writing with the aim to promote women internationally and generate cultural exchanges and opportunities run by procreate Project
https://www.procreateproject.com/mama-issue-n-31-marketa-senkyrik-robin-silbergleid/
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Marketa Senkyrik
body
body’s transformation
bookmaking
breastfeeding
diary
drawing
female energy
labour
London
mother-artist
mother’s diary
motherhood
painting
pregnancy
United Kindgom
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Person
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Website
The Artist's website
<a href="http://www.juliabarbee.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">juliabarbee.com</a>
Topic
motherhood
pregnancy
breastfeeding
motherhood as art practice
play
postpartum
family collaboration
breastfeeding advocacy
food
early motherhood
social media moms group
kids and nature
naptime haiku
Medium
photography
performance
social media
Location
The location of the interview
Oregon
USA
Artist Statement
<span class="ydpfd2cabdayiv1751045275s2">The constraints of her</span><span class="ydpfd2cabdayiv1751045275s2"> autobio</span><span class="ydpfd2cabdayiv1751045275s2">graphical journey</span><span class="ydpfd2cabdayiv1751045275s2"> inform </span><span class="ydpfd2cabdayiv1751045275s2">artist Julia Barbee's subjects and material choices. She has worked in </span><span class="ydpfd2cabdayiv1751045275s2">wearable sculpture, performance, film, food, social media, photography and writing. Currently, she is exploring play with her children, providing space for them to create, and she is making vanitas photos of the aftermath of meals they make and share with friends, family, and strangers.<span> </span></span><span class="ydpfd2cabdayiv1751045275s2">She </span><span class="ydpfd2cabdayiv1751045275s2">co-founded and curated a five-year running art event called Spaceness, which was awarded grant funding from the the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visu</span><span class="ydpfd2cabdayiv1751045275s2">al Arts. She<span> </span></span><span>has an MFA in fiber, and has been working in Portland, Oregon for</span><span> almost two decades where she lives with her husband and two children.</span>
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Julia barbee
Title
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Julia Barbee
breastfeeding
motherhood
performance
photography
pregnancy
social media
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Title
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Artist Parent Index
Person
An individual.
Website
The Artist's website
<a href="kaseyjonesart.com">kaseyjonesart.com</a>
Topic
motherhood
breastfeeding
paid leave
working mom
stay at home parent
Medium
interdisciplinary
Artist Statement
My creative pursuits are fueled by my need to connect with people. Through this human interaction, I become more connected to my immediate community and my global community. I use my artistic voice as a means for civic duty. My work instigates dialogue that forces my viewers to confront issues that are typically hard to talk about. I create both large-scale, participatory art projects as well as develop personal work that responds to pertinent social and environmental injustices that impact my life and the lives of others. As an interdisciplinary artist my approach is rooted in the exploration of material. By having an open-ended view of what materials I can use, my art making process is constantly being pushed by the varying limitations each material may have. My exploration of media has lead me to develop bodies of work in painting, photography, sculpture, living sculptures, audio, video, light and textiles. My current work focuses on the injustices I have faced through my experiences of being a woman and a mother in contemporary society. I have created bodies of work that examine topics such as breastfeeding, lack of paid maternity leave, menstruation, and motherhood.
Location
The location of the interview
Athens
Ohio
USA
Exhibitions
Exhibitions in the Index that an artist has participated in. The two entries will be linked.
<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/296">The Art of Breastfeeding: Modern Narratives of Motherhood</a>
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Kasey Jones
Title
A name given to the resource
Kasey Jones
Athens
breastfeeding
interdisciplinary
motherhood
Ohio
paid leave
stay at home parent
USA
working mom
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Artist Parent Index
Person
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Website
The Artist's website
<a href="madelinedonahue.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">madelinedonahue.com</a>
Topic
mother child relationship
intimacy
nursing
attachment parenting
breastfeeding
Medium
oil on canvas
Artist Statement
Madeline Donahue’s paintings explore the overwhelming absurdity and intimacy of caring for another person. She focuses on the surreal reality and physicality of the mother and child relationship. In each work, the mother attempts to perform basic aspects of a day as the child clings to hair and body parts, nonchalant, comfortably playing on her body. She uses a bold simplified palette, especially pinks and blues, colors that are cool on the spectrum but conjure warmth and life in and around the body.
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Madeline Donahue
Title
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Madeline Donahue
attachment parenting
intimacy
mother child relationships
nursing
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Resource Library
Book
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Editor
Amy Hughes Braden
Raina Martens
Contributor
The author of an article within an anthology
Mother Afrodite
Margaret Bakke
Carolyn Chernoff
Yauri Delancour
Melani N. Douglass
Maribeth Egan
Laura Elkins
Kristin Rose Gaudio Endsley
Fabiola
Amy Elayne Finkelstein
Mel Harper
LaToya Michelle Hobbs
<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sarah Irvin</a>
Mariko Iwata
Mariah Anne Johnson
Tsedaye Makonnen
China Martens
Molly McIntyre
Maria McLean
Maggie Michael
Rebecca Perez
Hannah Hessel Ratner
Katie Rauth
Gail Susan Rebhan
Julia Kim Smith
Donna Teare
Caitlin R. Woolsey
<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/2" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Megan Wynne</a>
Publisher
<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/336" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Artist Mother Studio</a>
City of Publication
Washington DC
Date of Publication
2018
Topic
zine
Artist Mother Studio
mother artists
childcare
community
pregnancy
marginalized mothers
breastfeeding
support systems
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Maternal Journal
Artist Mother Studio
childcare
journal
maternal
mother artist
pregnancy
Washington DC
zine
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Title
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Artist Parent Index
Person
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Website
The Artist's website
<a href="sarahdolanart.com">sarahdolanart.com</a>
Topic
nursing
sleep
naptime
breastfeeding
body
maternal body
c-section
Medium
fibers
printmaking
recycled materials
Artist Statement
In the second year following the birth of my daughter I began an artist residency in motherhood. For one year I made work during my daughter’s naptime. I created many bodies of work during my residency, using a variety of materials and processes. My works explore multiple aspects of motherhood including birth, the postpartum body, breastfeeding, and objects used for caretaking and play.
The Tender Objects series consists of small, pink, soft sculptures. These works are assembled from cut up pieces of a raincoat, which is meant to shield the body, but rendered useless to protect the body once severed. These pieces contemplate the defenselessness and many unknowns of the insides of our bodies.
Through the Motherbody series, I use materials from clothing that no longer fits my postpartum body. Each soft sculpture imagines some part of me, not unlike my daughters many stuffed animals, as a created comfort item. Filled with stuffing from a pregnancy pillow, they imitate plush objects that would soothe a child while simultaneously examining the immense changes and vulnerability of the body during and after pregnancy.
In the Motherbody Drawings series I draw the motherbody pieces, turning them into something diverging from the comfort item the mother body is perceived to be in our culture. While the drawings are still perceived as soft, they transform the physicality of the sculptures to sensuous and blossoming unknowns. These drawings examine the dichotomy of the mother figure, finding the tender with the intimate, and not separating the two.
The Nursing Pad series explores the enormous amounts of time and labor that are given to feeding an infant. Through the repetitive, labored motion of the embroidery process, I recall the repetition of the breastfeeding process and the sucking motion of the infant. Each piece is labored over. Some carry smaller amounts of embroidery, a recollection of the earliest days when my milk was meager and some are saturated with embroidery, a reconstruction of the soaking of the very same pads with my own milk.
Location
The location of the interview
Alexandria
Virginia
USA
Exhibitions
Exhibitions in the Index that an artist has participated in. The two entries will be linked.
<a href="https://artistparentindex.com/items/show/436" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Of Printbearing Age, 2019</a><br /><br /><a href="https://artistparentindex.com/items/show/523" target="_blank" rel="noopener">motHER/child, June-Aug 2020</a>
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Sarah Dolan
Title
A name given to the resource
Sarah Dolan
body
breastfeeding
fiber
nap
naptime
nursing
printmaking
recycled material
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Exhibition Website
<a href="http://whitewatergallery.com/roman-charity/">http://whitewatergallery.com/roman-charity/</a>
Curator
Serena Kataoka – Executive Director
Gallery
<a href="http://whitewatergallery.com/">White Water Gallery</a>
Curatorial Statement
This exhibition explores an under-examined motive for discomfort with breastfeeding: that it is a powerful display of human interdependence. I also intend the project to raise questions about the politics of milk, women’s breasts and the use of public space.
Location
The location of the interview
North Bay
Ontario
Canada
Artists
<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/105">Heather Passmore</a>
Topic
breastfeeding
interdependence
public space
breasts
milk
Duration
Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.)
August 28 – September 30, 2018
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Roman Charity
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Heather Passmore
breastfeeding
breastmilk
Canada
interdependence
milk
mothers
Ontario
public space
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Website
The Artist's website
<a rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" href="http://www.alanatyson.com/">www.alanatyson.com</a>
Medium
sculpture
textiles
performance
Location
The location of the interview
Wales
United Kingdom
Artist Statement
<p class="p0"><span class="c0">Alana Tyson’s work attempts to make sense of the world she inhabits. As an immigrant to the UK and a natural observer, she feels highly responsive to the contradictions of everyday life.</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="c0"> </span></p>
<p class="p2"><span class="c0">Her uncertain questioning of diverse thematic concepts is a tactic for working through the problems she encounters, incorporating performance, sculpture and installation utilising found, altered and constructed elements.</span></p>
<p class="p3"><span class="c0"> </span></p>
<p class="p4"><span class="c0">Tyson is drawn to dualities and incongruities. A commonality between her chosen materials is their link to domesticity. Everyday items, such as suit lining or crochet cotton, become carriers of meaning and reflections upon Tyson’s deep-rooted responses. The material contrasts and tension within Tyson’s work transforms the mundane into the visceral.</span></p>
<p class="p5"><span class="c0"> </span></p>
<p class="p6"><span class="c0"> </span></p>
Topic
feminism
crochet
breastfeeding
motherhood
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Alana Tyson
breastfeeding
crochet
feminism
motherhood
performance
sculpture
textiles
United Kingdom
Wales
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Website
The Artist's website
<a href="http://www.aimeegilmore.com/portfolio/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://www.aimeegilmore.com/portfolio/</a>
Medium
breast milk
wood
found/discarded objects
baby clothes
fabric
neon
cement
clay
plaster
sculpture
mixed media
Location
The location of the interview
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Artist Statement
Aimee Gilmore's latest body of work is a result of her recent discoveries in motherhood. The works are a collection of imagery and objects that reflect the process of archiving a routine (like breastfeeding) through its most essential material and highlights the communication between mother and child through abstraction. It is through this collection that Gilmore begins to viscerally relate the abstract nature of motherhood to the unpredictable nature of breast milk, a material that exposes and emphasizes the necessity of letting go. Gilmore seeks a more thorough and vivid understanding of her own labor as mother by making works from the generative processes of her own body.
Topic
breastfeeding
breast milk
binary tensions
motherhood
bodies as markers of time
female body
body
lactation
Exhibitions
Exhibitions in the Index that an artist has participated in. The two entries will be linked.
<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/296" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Art of Breastfeeding: Modern Narrative of Motherhood</a>
Make the Pump Not Suck, MIT Media Lab, April 27 - 29, 2018, MIT University
<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/388">Mother Load</a>
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Aimee Gilmore
baby clothes
binary tensions
bodies as markers of time
breast milk
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clay
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female body
found object
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motherhood
mylar
neon
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
plaster
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Exhibition Archive
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Exhibition Website
<a href="http://mfgallery.net/BFart/BFart.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://mfgallery.net/BFart/BFart.html</a>
Gallery
MF Gallery
Location
The location of the interview
Brooklyn
New York
Curator
Leigh Pennebaker
Martina Secondo Russo
Curatorial Statement
In honor of International Women's Month, MF Gallery is hosting an art show that explores the joys, challenges, and body-politics of breastfeeding and motherhood in the 21st century. Part of the proceeds will benefit La Leche League. Co-Curated by Leigh Pennebaker, (founder of @breastfeedingart feed on instagram) and Martina Secondo Russo, (owner of MF Gallery) this show will feature artwork in a variety of media from two dozen international artists, including Nicoz Balboa, Christa David, Jess Dobkin, Debbies Drummond, Marina Font, Geertje Geertsma, Aimee Gilmore, Jenna Gribbon, Samantha Hahn, Sigal Arad Inbar, Kasey Jones, Raeleen Kao, Lucy Knisley, Rachel Marcotte, Tara McPherson, Anna Melo, Jenny Middleton, April Rose, Martina Secondo Russo, Debra Sheldon, SWOON, Lexx Valdez, Anna Wiggins, Megan Wynne and more.<br /><br /> Today, many female artists are moving beyond the ancient Madonna archetype and creating fresh and exciting work using their firsthand experience with breastfeeding to explore what it means to be women, mothers, and feminists. These artists are making work that celebrates the naturalness and normalcy of breastfeeding and pushes back at a culture that penalizes and censors women’s bodies at every turn. Breastfeeding can be one of the most beautiful and fulfilling journeys in life, but women who wish to nurse their babies often face an uphill battle in a culture that doesn’t provide adequate postpartum support, and in which women are constantly judged and criticized no matter what they do. Even street harassment takes specific form, as strangers admonish mothers to ‘cover up’ while breastfeeding in public spaces. Artists are harnessing such experiences and using them as fuel to create while deepening the discourse around mothers, babies, and our mammal bodies. <br /><br />A portion of the proceeds from artwork sales will be donated to La Leche League of Brooklyn, the local chapter of La Leche League International, whose mission is to help mothers worldwide to breastfeed through mother-to-mother support, encouragement, information, and education, and to promote a better understanding of breastfeeding as an important element in the healthy development of the baby and mother.
Artists
Nicoz Balboa
Christa David
Jess Dobkin
Debbies Drummond
Marina Font
Geertje Geertsma
<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/298" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Aimee Gilmore</a>
Jenna Gribbon
Samantha Hahn
Sigal Arad Inbar
<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/367">Kasey Jones</a>
Raeleen Kao
Lucy Knisley
Rachel Marcotte
Tara McPherson
Anna Melo
Jenny Middleton
April Rose
Martina Secondo Russo
Debra Sheldon
SWOON
Lexx Valdez
Anna Wiggins
<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/2" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Megan Wynne</a>
Duration
Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.)
March 10 - April 22, 2018
Topic
breastfeeding
motherhood
babies
breastfeededing advocacy
public breastfeeding
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The Art of Breastfeeding: Modern Narratives of Motherhood
breastfeeding
breastfeeding advocacy
mothers
public breastfeeding
public space
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Resource Library
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Editor
Ann Marie A. Short
Abigail L. Palko
Dionne Irving
Publisher
Demeter Press
City of Publication
Bradford
State of Publication
Ontario
Country of Publication
Canada
Date of Publication
April 2018
ISBN 13
978-1-77258-155-3
Topic
motherhood
breastfeeding
visual culture
maternal theory
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Breastfeeding & Culture: Discourses and Representations
art history
autonomy
breastfeeding
female sexuality
feminism
maternal bodies
maternal theory
maternity
motherhood
Race
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Editor
<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/47">Rachel Epp Buller</a>
Contributor
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Heather Belknap Jensen
Marguerite Gerard
Deborah J Wilk
Paula J Birnbaum
Jessica Dallow
Andrea Liss
Erin Barnett
Cecily Cheo
Elzbieta Korolczuk
Charles Reeve
Mariangeles Soto-Diaz
Diana Quinby
Sandra Matthews
<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/114">Gail Rebhan</a>
Jessica D Clements
Jackie Skrzynski
<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/196" target="_self">Denise Ferris</a>
Maru Ituarte
Erika Swinson
Joan Linder
Nane Ariadne Jordan
<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/204">Elizabeth MacKenzie</a>
Natasha Christopher
<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/199" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Myrel Chernick</a>
Publisher
Ashgate
City of Publication
Farnham
Province of Publication
Surrey
Country of Publication
England
Date of Publication
2012
ISBN 13
9781409426134
Topic
feminist art theory
feminist theory
The Feminist Art Project
art history
maternal body
mother as artist
curating
breastfeeding
motherhood
childbirth
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Reconciling Art and Mothering
art history
breastfeeding
childbirth
curating
feminist art theory
feminist theory
maternal body
mother as artist
motherhood
The Feminist Art Project
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Author
Fiona Joy Green
Gary Lee Pelletier
Publisher
Demeter Press
City of Publication
Bedford
Country of Publication
Canada
ISBN 13
978-1-926452-16-6
Province of Publication
Ontario
Topic
motherhood
men
mothering
gender
queer parenting
pregnancy
fatherhood
queer identity
transgender
breastfeeding
masculinity
childbirth
Date of Publication
2015
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Essential Breakthroughs: Conversations about Men, Mothers, and Mothering
breastfeeding
childbirth
Demeter Press
fathers
gender
gender norms
masculinity
men
motherhood
mothering
mothers
queer identity
queer parenting
transgender
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Artist Parent Index
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Website
The Artist's website
<a href="http://blogs.eciad.ca/elizabethmackenzie/?page_id=6401" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://blogs.eciad.ca/elizabethmackenzie/?page_id=6401</a>
<a href="http://www.elizabeth-mackenzie.com/" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.elizabeth-mackenzie.com&source=gmail&ust=1558724776144000&usg=AFQjCNFq3V1oVNx9mtQqbABDVatELWjR-Q" rel="noopener">http://www.elizabeth-<wbr />mackenzie.com</a>
<a href="https://vimeo.com/221027778" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="Up and Down She Goes">https://vimeo.com/221027778</a>
<a href="https://vimeo.com/221026288" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="Me First">https://vimeo.com/221026288</a>
Medium
drawing
installation
Location
The location of the interview
Vancouver
British Columbia
Canada
Artist Statement
<div class="entry-content">
<p>I’ve always been interested in exploring the tension between the role of the (female) artist and the demands of the everyday. My identity as an artist mother has informed my work for many years.</p>
<p>Even before I had a child of my own I considered how it might be possible to combine these roles within my 1984 installation, <a title="Taking Care (1984)" href="http://blogs.eciad.ca/elizabethmackenzie/?page_id=6423"><em>Taking Care</em></a>.</p>
<p>Four years later, in 1988, I gave birth to my first child. When she was eight months old I installed <a title="Baby Food (1989)" href="http://blogs.eciad.ca/elizabethmackenzie/?page_id=4739"><em>Baby Food</em></a> in <em>Mothers of Invention</em>, a group exhibition about mothers and daughters curated by Jo-Anna Isaak. This piece describes my anxiety about my ability to nourish my daughter, as I struggled with both breast-feeding and art making.</p>
<p>The installation <a title="With Child (1991)" href="http://blogs.eciad.ca/elizabethmackenzie/?page_id=6481"><em>With Child</em></a>, produced in 1991 for <em>The Embodied Viewer,</em> a group show curated by Vera Lemecha for the Glenbow Museum in Calgary, portrays some of the conflicts of over-identification and self‑immolation that were raised for me within the dyads of pregnancy and maternity. I was fearful that my child had become, even before birth, an autonomous creature I would never be able to encompass and keep safe. This combination of images on a long wall produced an impossible representation that had become increasingly normalized: we were able to see a pregnant body as well as what is inside the body. Although I was thrilled to become a mother, I was horrified by the loss of boundaries I experienced. Both my body and my psychic space were invaded.</p>
<p>In 1991 I also began graduate studies at the University of Saskatchewan. I wanted to review my 10-year practice as an artist as well as continue to investigate representations of pregnancy. The thesis I developed, <em>Spacemen and Invisible Women</em>, examined popular representations of pregnancy that obliterated the pregnant woman, and represented the fetus (or embryo) as a tiny self‑sufficient space traveler, floating in a black void. My 1993 graduating exhibition, <a title="Invisible/Stranger/Mine (1993)" href="http://blogs.eciad.ca/elizabethmackenzie/?page_id=6491"><em>Invisible/Stranger/Mine</em></a>, examined maternal erasure and the cult of fetal personhood within a number of related works.</p>
<p>The installation <a title="Radiant Monster (1996-98)" href="http://blogs.eciad.ca/elizabethmackenzie/?page_id=1190"><em>Radiant Monster</em></a>, completed in 1996, was shown in a number of different contexts. Once again, this work represented the ambivalent feelings I experienced in response to real and imagined pregnancies and children. I wanted to express a continuum between the desire and the anxiety that the contemplation and experience of maternity evokes. Not surprisingly, reproductive technologies that offer new choices to infertile women, and increase the opportunity for interventions during pregnancy and birth, extend and exaggerate our relationship to our reproductive capacities.</p>
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<p>From 1997 to 1999 I co-wrote a series of bimonthly columns with Martha Townsend for the Mentoring Artists for Women’s Art (MAWA) newsletter (here’s a <a href="http://blogs.eciad.ca/elizabethmackenzie/files/2014/11/FPP-Artist-Mothers-March-1998.pdf">sample column</a> from March 1998).</p>
<p><span>I produced a number of videos about maternity during this period, including </span><i>Up and Down She Goes</i><span> (1998) and </span><i>Me First </i><span>(1999).</span><br /><br />In 2000 Martha and I co-produced a conference for artist-mothers, <em><a title="First Person Plural Symposium (2000)" href="http://blogs.eciad.ca/elizabethmackenzie/?page_id=246">First Person Plural</a></em> for MAWA at the Winnipeg Art Gallery in Winnipeg. I co-curated an program of videos for the conference, <a href="http://blogs.eciad.ca/elizabethmackenzie/files/2014/11/LfT.pdf">Looking for Trouble: Tapes by Unruly Mothers </a>with Laurel Swenson, that was also shown at Video Out (Vancouver) in 2000. I also produced a video document, <em><a href="https://vimeo.com/221017621#t=40s">Delivery: Artist Mothers on Tape</a>, </em>in which 30 conference participants speak candidly about their mothering and art-making practices.</p>
<p>Essays where I consider my identity as an artist mother have been included in <a href="http://demeterpress.org/books/mothering-canada-interdisciplinary-voices/">Mothering Canada: Interdisciplinary Voices</a> (2010) and <a href="http://www.ashgate.com/isbn/9781409426134">Reconciling Art and Mothering</a> (2012).</p>
<p>A collection of resources (articles, books, websites) specifically about artist-mothers can be found <a title="Artist-Mother Resources" href="http://blogs.eciad.ca/elizabethmackenzie/?page_id=6513">here</a>.</p>
<p>Here’s a <a href="http://blogs.eciad.ca/elizabethmackenzie/?p=6499">post</a> about a presentation I developed for a conference in 2015 (<em>Embody/In My Body</em>), as well as a video of the presentation itself (“Exquisite Tension”) available <a href="https://vimeo.com/125696100">here.</a></p>
<p>Although I haven’t made work specifically about maternity for some time, my current projects continue to be deeply affected by these investigations and what I discovered about inter-subjectivity within my role as an artist mother.</p>
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Topic
motherhood
artist/mother
identity
breastfeeding
food
pregnancy
ambivalence
desire
anxiety
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Title
A name given to the resource
Elizabeth MacKenzie
ambivalence
baby food
breastfeeding
British Columbia
Canada
feeding
food
motherhood
motherhood and art practice
pregnancy
Vancouver
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Fontana di Trevi, 2016
Description
An account of the resource
My point of departure is based on my physical awareness. The vanishing necessity to be physically present somewhere to act opens up a large window of questions, which I detect and elaborate in my work. The confrontation of the human body, its functions and its expressions in relation to society interests me the most. There is a displacement going on which I use for a redefinition of my own identity.
The female body, which undergoes complex transformations, is still under the public spotlight when it comes to a justification of professional interests. Why should it be intellectually less valuable to talk about pregnancy in a theoretical context when a woman is also pregnant at the same time? This doubt still unmasks the western belief in the dichotomy of mind and body and its gender classification. I am well aware of the risks of subjectivity, yet I think that personal drives can lead to splendid creations and discoveries. For me as an artist, life and art are closely related and they interchange their influences. The division between an in- and an out-side, a private and a public, is constantly going through an osmotic transition.
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Artist Parent Index
Person
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Website
The Artist's website
<a href="http://www.barbaraphilipp.com" target="_blank">www.barbaraphilipp.com</a>
<a href="http://www.mbassyunlimited.org/008-barbara-philipp/" target="_blank">http://www.mbassyunlimited.org/008-barbara-philipp/</a>
Medium
performance art
video art
artists' books
drawing
painting
Location
The location of the interview
Amsterdam
Netherlands
Artist Statement
My point of departure is based on my physical awareness. The vanishing necessity to be physically present somewhere to act opens up a large window of questions, which I detect and elaborate in my work. The confrontation of the human body, its functions and its expressions in relation to society interests me the most. There is a displacement going on which I use for a redefinition of my own identity. The female body, which undergoes complex transformations, is still under the public spotlight when it comes to a justification of professional interests. Why should it be intellectually less valuable to talk about pregnancy in a theoretical context when a woman is also pregnant at the same time? This doubt still unmasks the western belief in the dichotomy of mind and body and its gender classification. I am well aware of the risks of subjectivity, yet I think that personal drives can lead to splendid creations and discoveries. For me as an artist, life and art are closely related and they interchange their influences. The division between an in- and an out-side, a private and a public, is constantly going through an osmotic transition.<br /><br /><br />
Topic
body
female body
identity
pregnancy
breastfeeding
motherhood
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Barbara Philipp
Amsterdam
artists books
body
breastfeeding
drawing
female body
identity
maternal body
Netherlands
painting
performance art
video art
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Exhibition Archive
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Exhibition Website
<a href="http://www.wellesley.edu/event/node/81611" target="_blank">http://www.wellesley.edu/event/node/81611</a>
Gallery
Jewett Art Center Art Sculpture Court
Location
The location of the interview
Wellesley
Norfolk County
Massachusetts
Curator
Anna Ogier-Bloomer
Curatorial Statement
<p>Guests are invited to celebrate the opening of the exhibition <em>An Intimate Portrait of Motherhood </em>with a reception on Tuesday, March 1 at 4:00 PM. Both the reception and the exhibition are free and open to the public.</p>
<p>This exhibition forces the viewer to confront the sensual, intimate nature of breastfeeding and the physical mother-child relationship. Through photography and video, these two artists use the lens to examine and cope with the physical, emotional and mental complexities of the mother’s body. Katie Doyle’s work gives the audience a vantage point so close they feel as if they’re seeing from inside her, while her son suckles and consumes milk or entangles his soft limbs in hers. Ogier-Bloomer’s photographs utilize a frank, unapologetic voice shared between image-maker and subject: whether she appears in the image with her daughter, her mother, or from behind the camera. Both artists examine this unique maternal communication based in touch—a language without words, rooted in biology and the senses.</p>
<p>Raised in Cincinnati, Ohio, Anna Ogier-Bloomer holds an MFA in Photography & Related Media from Parsons School of Design, where she was awarded the Photography Department Prize in 2011. Shereceived her BFA from The School of The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, where she was the recipient of the Yousuf Karsh Prize in Photography and a Dean's Travel Grant. Ogier-Bloomer has exhibited at galleries and museums nationally, including the Bridge Art Fair in Miami/Basel, The Contemporary Art Center in Cincinnati, The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and at the Attleboro Arts Museum in Massachusetts. She has received grants from Chashama in New York, the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and CSArts Cincinnati. Anna has been an adjunct Assistant Professor at the City University of New York. She currently lives in New York City and travels often for her work.</p>
- See more at: <a href="http://www.wellesley.edu/event/node/81611#sthash.V6lNZjEu.dpuf" target="_blank">http://www.wellesley.edu/event/node/81611#sthash.V6lNZjEu.dpuf</a>
Artists
Katie Doyle
<a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/163" target="_blank">Anna Ogier-Bloomer</a>
Duration
Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.)
February 29 – April 1, 2016
Topic
breastfeeding
mother/child relationship
mother's body
maternal
motherhood
maternal body
touch
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An Intimate Portrait of Motherhood
breastfeeding
breastmilk
Massachusetts
maternal body
mother
mother's body
mother/daughter relationship
motherhood
photography
photography and motherhood
touch
Wellesley
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copyright Grace Acton Roberts
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copyright Grace Acton Roberts
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Website
The Artist's website
<a href="http://www.graceacton.com/" target="_blank">http://www.graceacton.com/</a>
<a href="http://www.graceacton.com/cry-over-spilt-milk.html" target="_blank">http://www.graceacton.com/cry-over-spilt-milk.html</a>
Medium
mixed media
Artist Statement
<span>Grace Acton Roberts has a background in visual arts having trained as a visual artist at Keele University. On leaving university she co-curated the first UK Gypsy, Roma, Traveller art exhibition, Second Site, at the Stephen Lawrence Gallery, Greenwich, which went on successfully to secure Arts Council, England funding to commission new works and tour around England in 2006.<br /><br />She subsequently worked for a number of multidisciplinary arts organisations including Metal Culture Ltd, providing project, events and finance management. In 2011, whilst at Metal, she organised Showflat, a series of site-specific exhibitions in artists’ homes and its accompanying publication. Since 2011 she has been the coordinator for the visual arts programme at Greenbelt Festival, exhibiting artists such as Willie Williams, Anthony Green RA, Simone Lia, Michael Leunig, Nicola Green, Sokari Douglas Camp CBE, Guler Ates, Hollie McNish, Nicola Canavan and Sinéad Bligh. She currently works for Applecartlive Ltd, a Storytelling, film and theatre production company based in East London. In 2015 she completed her MA in Curating and Collections at Chelsea School of Art, UAL, h</span><span>er research interests centre on feminist maternal art practice and curating the personal.</span>
Topic
motherhood
breastfeeding
mother/child relationship
feminism
maternal art
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Grace Acton Roberts
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Artist retains copyright to image
breast milk
breastfeeding
feminism
mother
mother/child relationship
motherhood
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Artist Parent Index
Person
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Website
The Artist's website
<a href="http://www.annaogierbloomer.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">annaogierbloomer.com</a>
Topic
motherhood
family
breastfeeding
Medium
photography
Artist Statement
This work, made during the first two years of my new role as mother,demonstratesthe complexityof doing the most difficult yet most meaningful work I’d ever done. The physical act of motherhood begins at conception and continues to evolve through a child’s life. Here, I turnmy lens on these physical elements: pain on the surface of the skin, illness, emotional outpouring of love and distress, the engorgement of the breast. These things simultaneously bring excruciating physical pain and unparalleled emotional joy. Through images of my own mother, I attach a thread from one generation to the next. I confront the complexity of these seemingly contradictory states of being, and the ways in which women feel the pull of motherhood, their children, and their physical self and appearance in a way unlike anything or anyone else.
Location
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New York
USA
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Anna Ogier-Bloomer
Title
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Anna Ogier-Bloomer
breastfeeding
family
lactation
motherhood
New York
pain
photography
United States
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Exhibition Archive
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Event Type
Gallery
Exhibition Website
<a href="https://womanmade.org/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://womanmade.org/</a>
Gallery
Woman Made Gallery
Curator
<a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/47" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">Rachel Epp Buller</a>
Curatorial Statement
<span>“Mothers” includes moving works by 37 women addressing the culturally ubiquitous role of motherhood, historically under-represented in visual art. The artists utilize a wide range of media, from photography, video, 3D, and even frosted cakes. The artists’ individual and sometimes intensely personal approaches to the subject of motherhood vary as much as their media. The work speaks to personal experiences (as a mother or as related to a mother), social constructions of motherhood, the balance of home and work, the politicization of mothers, pregnancy, breastfeeding, childbirth, bodily transformation, miscarriage, loss, and fertility/infertility. Artists are using materials traditionally found in domestic settings including clothes pins, canning jars, and yarn. Others use iconic imagery such as the Madonna and child.</span>
Location
The location of the interview
Chicago
Illinois
Duration
Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.)
November 5 to December 23, 2010
Topic
motherhood
domesticity
politicization of mothers
pregnancy
breastfeeding
childbirth
bodily transformation
miscarriage
loss
fertility
infertility
Artists
Jjenna Hupp Andrews
Kiki Augustin
Melissa Ayotte
Linda L. Bacon
Adrian Baker
Shaun Bangert
Kristy Battani
Jolene Beckman
Cat Del Buono
Corinna Button
<a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/199" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">Myrel Chernick</a>
Barbara Diener
Sheila A. Donovan
Joy Christiansen Erb
Niki Grangruth
Luba Grenader
Kate Hansen
Kelly Harrington
Katherine Michele Hatchell
Judith Hladik-Voss
Phyllis Hofman
Lea Basile Lazarus
Stephanie Lerma
Melanie Lowrance
Elaine Luther
Julie Mader-Meersman
Jennifer McNichols
Maggie Meiners
Freyda Miller
Helen Payne
Nancy Roberts
Jaleesa Rosario
Sarah Rust Sampedro
Amanda Simons
Colette Veasey-Cullors
Lisa Venditelli
Ellen Wetmore
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Mothers
bodily transformation
breastfeeding
childbirth
domesticity
fertility
infertility
loss
miscarriage
motherhood
politicization of mothers
pregnancy
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Website
The Artist's website
<a href="http://maternalecologies.ca/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">maternalecologies.ca</a>
Medium
performance
video art
Location
The location of the interview
Edmonton
Alberta
Canada
Artist Statement
Maternal Ecologies uses the frame of performance to recast the daily practices of early motherhood. For 3 years I reflected on, inhabited, and researched my experience of early maternal life through the FLUXUS-inspired format of the instruction piece. Year 1, Action A Day (Maternal Prescriptions) was performed for 84 consecutive days. Year 2, Action A Day (Inhabiting Firsts) was performed for 210 consecutive days. Year 3, Action A Day (Gone/There) was performed for 84 consecutive days. The project ended when my son turned 3.
Topic
daily practice
motherhood
Fluxus
documentation
art and research
infants
infant care
breastfeeding
Exhibitions
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<a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/64" target="_blank" rel="noopener">New Maternalisms - Chile</a>
<a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/65" target="_blank" rel="noopener">New Maternalisms - Toronto</a>
Publications
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<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/463">The Maternal in Creative Work Intergenerational Discussions on Motherhood and Art , Contributor</a>
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Title
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Natalie Loveless
Alberta
breastfeeding
Canada
curator
daily practice
documentation
Edmonton
infant care
motherhood
research
research and art
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Artist Parent Index
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Website
The Artist's website
<a href="http://www.artlist.cz/katerina-olivova-108635/" target="_blank">http://www.artlist.cz/katerina-olivova-108635/</a>
<a href="https://vimeo.com/user2505168" target="_blank">https://vimeo.com/user2505168</a>
Topic
motherhood
breastfeeding
activism
family
child as artist
Medium
performance art
video art
activism
texts
Location
The location of the interview
Brno
Czech Republic
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Kateřina Olivová
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Kateřina Olivová
activism
breastfeeding
child as artist
family
motherhood
performance art
text
video art
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<a href="http://balance.ddtr.net/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://balance.ddtr.net/</a>
<a href="https://www.ashgate.com/default.aspx?page=637&calcTitle=1&isbn=9781409426134&lang=cy-GB" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Reconciling Art and Mothering - Book</a>
Medium
writing
curating
printmaking
book arts
Location
The location of the interview
Bethel College
Kansas
United States
Artist Statement
<div><span>Dr. Rachel Epp Buller is a feminist-art historian-printmaker-book artist-professor-mother of three whose art and scholarship speak to these intersections. In her dual practice of critical and creative work, she turns to writing, making, and curating to increase the visibility of issues around motherhood, care work, and the maternal body. Her maternal writing includes books - </span><em>Reconciling Art and Mothering, Mothering Mennonite, </em><span>and </span><em>Have Milk, Will Travel: Adventures in Breastfeeding - </em><span>and essays in </span><em>n.paradoxa, Journal of the Motherhood Initiative, Studies in the Maternal,</em><span> and in many edited collections. Her recent prints and artist books explore family identities, shared knowledge, imagined histories, and textual references to traditions of fine handwork passed on between generations of women. As a professor at a liberal arts college, she values collaboration in many forms and frequently works with colleagues across disciplinary boundaries. </span></div>
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Topic
maternal body
shifting identities
care work
breastfeeding
parent-child collaboration
maternal collaboration
familial heritage
handwork traditions
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<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/452">Extended Self: Transformations and Connections</a>
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<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/463">The Maternal in Creative Work Intergenerational Discussions on Motherhood and Art, Contributor</a>
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Rachel Epp Buller
bookarts
breastfeeding
care taking
care work
curating
familial heritage
handwork traditions
maternal body
maternal collaboration
parent/child collaboration
parent/child relationships
printmaking
shifting identities
writing
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The Artist's website
<a href="http://www.helensargeant.co.uk/" target="_blank">http://www.helensargeant.co.uk/</a>
Medium
drawing
painting
installation
video art
sound
performance
photography
Location
The location of the interview
Todmorden
England
Artist Statement
Sargeant makes artwork about the female body, identity and mental fragility. She works across drawing, painting, photography, sound, video, performance and installation to explore her ideas.
Sargeant's arts practice is communicated through the visceral physical reality of the female body and psychological contexts. The work combines fiction and autobiography. Central to this practice is the utilisation of lived experience as a way to communicate emotions directly to an audience by making the personal public.
"We are born and we make marks through the vapour of our first breath, through our first excrement and from the saliva of our mouths enclosing around our mothers breasts."
– Helen Sargeant
Recent drawings represent the vulnerability and power of the biological body through pregnancy, birth and breastfeeding. The pregnant body is schematised and seen as, a vessel or a holding place. Dr Jacques Rangasamy writes:
"In her drawings, the space of pregnancy overflows the confines of the body; expectations are transmuted into feelings, and are located in parts of the body that are connected by tubular structures, the curved flights of single arrows and what appears as knotted ropes or rosary beads. It is perhaps an echo of the intelligence of life as it is instinctually felt rather than reasoned and rationalised. And therefore more authentic.In the way Chinese artists use ink as a symbol of the creative potential of the Tao, or primordial essence, Helen Sargeant uses ink to represent the bodily fluids essential to the alchemy of life. The ink and the forms it engenders form part of the same organic nature."
Drawings representing birth were recently published in Studies in the Maternal visual editor Rebecca Baillie writes:
"In her series’ of birth drawings Sargeant unites the public practice of watching YouTube birth videos with the more personal experience of giving birth oneself. The drawings aim to expose both the physical and emotional experience of birth, paying attention to feelings of emotional detachment during the delivery of her sons The birthing body is explored as an indicator of cultural and social anxiety, giving voice to pain and trauma beyond that of the actual birth."
Images documenting breastfeeding through drawings and photography look to show maternal jouissance and the sensual pleasures of the mother baby relationship. Maternal subjectivity is further explored within recent photographs documenting a performance where Sargeant bakes at home with her children to make loaves of bread formed into birthing figures that are subsequently eaten by her family at breakfast. Another performance documents her baking bread from the dust in her vacuum cleaner. Throughout this practice Sargeant seeks to explore, challenge and critique normative discourses and idealised representations of motherhood.
Topic
pregnancy
birth
motherhood
breastfeeding
bread baking
fertility
pain
identity
vulnerability
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<a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/19" target="_blank">Project AfterBirth</a>
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Title
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Helen Sargeant
birth
bread baking
England
motherhood
pregnancy
Todmorden
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<a href="http://alvarezerrecalde.com/" target="_blank">http://alvarezerrecalde.com/</a>
Medium
photography
Location
The location of the interview
Barcelona
Spain
Artist Statement
"Themes inspired by my personal experiences such as vital cycles, birth, motherhood, illness, immigration, ageing and death are found throughout my body of work. I create images that become a document of our love, our fears and our conquests.
My artwork is a contemporary social commentary through which I like to challenge the singular story that has been told and reinforced as a way of normalizing roles and attitudes. I cherish plurality and my way of doing so is to contribute images and testimonies that expands perspective and the constricted existing imagery.
Within a common experience like expecting a child or the passing away of a parent, we find transcendental truth. Art has the potential of transmitting that emotion to confront our daily numbness with something that is authentically substantial and profound.
I believe that there is a manipulative and deliberate lack of information that hinders the understanding of just how empowering and transformative motherhood can be. I cherish plurality and my way of contributing is to share my experiences in order to expand the constrained social imagery.
In "Birth of My Daughter", a self-portrait while giving birth, I take off my "cultural" veil. My maternity is not virginal or aseptic. I am the archetype of the primal woman, the woman beast that has nothing prohibited. I show a maternity not seen through the eyes of Eve (the divine punishment "you will give birth with the pain of your body"), but seen through the eyes of Lucy (the earliest hominid found to date). These photographs can help others rethink the idea of the fragile, painful, out of control and overly medicated birth that is considered the norm in many countries.
How I relate to nudity and blood is a mirror of my fascination with life. I am accepting of my changing body, amazed with how my children grow, and intrigued by the aging process. The blood and nudity seen within the context of my artwork is linked to authenticity and undiluted sensuality. I create images that become a document of our love, our fears and our conquests."
<a href="http://imowblog.blogspot.com.es/2014/01/in-conversation-with-ana-alvarez.html" target="_blank">Interview with Her Blue Print</a>
<a href="http://flicmagazine.com/mag/en/2014/07/ana-alvarez-errecalde/" target="_blank">Interview with Flic Magazine</a>
Topic
motherhood
birth
postpartum body
aging
daughter
breastfeeding
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Ana Álvarez-Errecalde
aging
Barcelona
birth
breastfeeding
daughter
motherhood
postpartum body
pregnancy
Spain
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<a href="http://www.jillmiller.net/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://www.jillmiller.net/</a>
Medium
social practice
Location
The location of the interview
California
Artist Statement
I have initiated a collection of new works enabled by the constraints and commitment of motherhood. More specifically, I am exploring the practice of homeschooling as a lens for this work. To more authentically experience and create these works I have undertaken a six month study into my own own “homeschooling” with my seven-year-old son. Using our domestic quarters as a backdrop, and my son as a instigator and collaborator, I’ve created an ongoing body of work that examines family constructs, the maternal-child relationship, and the ways that an artist can consider parenthood as a locus for creativity rather than a distraction or an obstacle in the career path.
Topic
homeschooling
breastfeeding
public breastfeeding
lactation
nursing mothers
motherhood
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<a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/4" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Complicated Labors</a>
New Maternalisms
<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/391" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Care and Feeding: The Art of Parenthood, Palo Alto Art Center, 2018</a>
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Jill Miller
breastfeeding
California
homeschooling
lactation
milk truck
motherhood
nursing mothers
social practice
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<a href="http://annakell.com/section/396317_DRAWING.html" target="_blank">http://annakell.com/section/396317_DRAWING.html</a>
Medium
Graphite on paper
Location
The location of the interview
New York City
New York
Topic
breastfeeding
motherhood
portrait
newborn
son
nursing mother
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Anna Kell
breastfeeding
New York
newborn
nursing mothers
portrait
son
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<a href="http://www.sarahsudhoff.com/home" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://www.sarahsudhoff.com/home</a>
Medium
peformance art
photography
video
Topic
breastfeeding
motherhood
postpartum body
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<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/398" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Unveiled, CPAC, Denver, Colorado</a>
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Sarah Sudhoff
breastfeeding
motherhood
performance art
photography
postpartum body
video art
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<a href="http://meganwynne.net/work/motherhood/photography" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">http://meganwynne.net/work/motherhood/photography</a>
Medium
photography
Topics
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bed sharing
breastfeeding
motherhood
parenthood
domestic space
personal boundaries
Location
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Norfolk
Virginia
Artist Statement
My recent work focuses on the subject of myself and my daughters to speak about the intensity, intimacy, and interdependence of motherhood. Playing with the persona of the mother and the mother-as-artist, the work brings up uncomfortable questions about identity, autonomy, and childrearing.
The images are at once familiar and unfamiliar, inviting and repelling. The work often straddles the line between referencing the family snapshot and cold clinical documentation. There is also ambiguity in how the individuals in the scene are emotionally and physically relating to each other. This uncertainty helps to create a sense of surreality in the work, and dark humor and melodrama within the narrative further push this aspect of the imagery. I use these devices to reflect on the deeply mysterious, contradictory, and often unknowable psychological undercurrent beneath everyday experiences of interconnection.
The mother-child relationship is the most primary and foundational relationship in one's life. In addition, there is a deep transgenerational legacy of the mother-child dynamic, in which beliefs, behaviors, and past traumas haunt one generation to the next. In my work I explore my maternal inheritance, as I address the intensity and profound complexity of the bond I have with my children. These depictions of the maternal experience challenge dominant reductive and over-sentimentalized representations of motherhood, as well as idealized and over-simplified perspectives on childhood.
Topic
motherhood
bedsharing
domestic space
breastfeeding
personal boundaries
Artist Residency in Motherhood
birth
childbirth
Exhibitions
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<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/404" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The M Word, One Paved Court Gallery, 1 – 12 May 2019</a>
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Megan Wynne
bedsharing
birth
breastfeeding
childbirth
domestic space
lactation
motherhood
photograph
photography and motherhood
pregnancy
United States
Virginia
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<a href="http://www.sarahirvinart.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.sarahirvinart.com</a>
Biographical Text
When I started my graduate program in 2013, I was confident that becoming a mother was not compatible with my studio practice. In the middle of my first semester, I began to question this assumption. As an experiment, I assumed the opposite was true, that there was work that I could only make if I was a mother. I was suddenly able to envision not only the work, but also myself in the role of “mother” for the first time. Three months later I was pregnant and I got to work. Creating in this way allows me to form myself in a role of “mother” and in turn motherhood continually redefines my practice. The work opens up dialogues about circumstances that are publicly debated, but only privately experienced.
I measured my stomach with a piece of yarn at navel height the day I found out I was pregnant. I tied the yarn off in a loop. I repeated this every day until the day I went into labor. Every week of the second trimester, I lifted 26 pounds, one pound over the recommended amount a pregnant woman should lift, using a block and tackle pulley system and created a transfer drawing with the impact when it was dropped from nine feet.
I established mechanisms to capture the physical actions of parenting as a mark on a page, beginning while I was in labor. For instance, the area rug in the nursery created transfer drawings as we walked across the room, the glider rocker created drawings as we rocked, and the stroller created drawings as we strolled. These works were enabled by the activities of our daily lives and captured the kinetic energy and labor involved in the care and nurturing of an infant.
During the second and third months of my daughter’s life, I created a series of watercolors exclusively while she slept, with each set considered complete when she awoke, allowing my circumstances to dictate aspects of my creative output. While breastfeeding, I made drawings on paper I created from my bed sheets with looping marks corresponding to individual suck and swallow motions of nursing providing a real-time read out of this experience. I commissioned a reproduction of the plastic measuring scoop that comes in a container of Similac infant formula to be cast from silver baby spoons.
Other iterations of this series include my daughter’s nursery as camera obscura; cyanotypes created with her blankets, toys and clothing; early stages of her own mark-making captured through fingerprint dust; silverpoint drawings tracing her early movements made with jewelry from my grandmother; and paintings made with a baby bottle and formula. As a whole, this project-based work is a personal narrative taking form as poetic visual data.
The works are exhibited as sets and series. An entire year’s action of rocking a baby is a set of 59 drawings made with our rocking chair. One year of walking across a nursery rug is a row of 12 large transfer drawings. Fifty feet of watercolors represent a tiny sampling of the available time during early parenthood when the baby slept. The work visualizes how care taking has shaped me as an individual and how it has transformed my mark making.
I view everything related to the experience of parenthood as a valid subject matter and/or mark making tool and this has opened up new methods of creating. The pieces are derived from the everyday. The interface of specific materials and processes with the everyday provides an entry point into broader topics of gender, production, reproduction, care, biological processes and cultural systems.
Medium
painting
drawing
papermaking
video art
photography
installation
Topics
The topics addressed within the Artist's work.
motherhood
parenthood
breastfeeding
infants and sleep
pregnancy
Location
The location of the interview
Richmond
Virginia
Topic
breastfeeding
motherhood
infants and sleep
pregnancy
baby formula
caretaking
gender and caretaking
domestic labor
maternal ambivalence
Artist Residency in Motherhood
gender equality
home
domestic space
care work
Exhibitions
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<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/274" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Labors</a>
<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/392">The End & The Beginning</a>
<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/452">Extended Self: Transformations and Connections</a>
<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/495">Painting at Night, Fort Houston Gallery, Nashville, TN</a>
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Sarah Irvin
ambivalence
body
breastfeeding
care work
domestic labor
domestic space
drawing
gender
gender equality
home
infant care
labor
maternal abivalence
maternal body
maternal time
motherhood
mothering
painting
paper
papermaking
repetition
repetitive tasks
ritual
tracking
video