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Website
The Artist's website
<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>
<p> </p>
<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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Title
A name given to the resource
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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Person
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Website
The Artist's website
<a href="https://jessicawitte.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://jessicawitte.com/</a>
Medium
transmedia
Location
The location of the interview
St. Louis
Missouri
Topic
parenting, family, caretaking, labor, domestic, memorials, NICU, cancer, covid-19, change, growth, personal relationships, illness, vanity, self-reflection, isolation, temporary, ephemeral, delicate, powder, chalk, UV-burn, burned wallpaper, systemic racism, systemic oppression, patterns, children, housework, organization
Exhibitions
Exhibitions in the Index that an artist has participated in. The two entries will be linked.
<a href="https://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/639" target="_blank" rel="noopener">It Hits Home: Parenting Amid A Pandemic Kranzberg Gallery, St Louis Missouri</a>
Jessica Witte:At(Tending) Contemporary Gallery, STLCC-FV Ferguson, MO,
(In)Visible Shift: Putnam Center for the Arts
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A name given to the resource
Jessica Witte
burned wallpaper
cancer
caretaking
chalk
change
children
Covid-19
delicate
domestic
ephemeral
family
growth
housework
illness
isolation
labor
memorials
NICU
organization
parenting
patterns
personal relationships
powder
self-reflection
systemic oppression
systemic racism
temporary
UV-burn
vanity
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Person
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Website
The Artist's website
<a href="http://www.ahreelee.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.ahreelee.com</a>
Medium
video
new media
textiles
Location
The location of the interview
Los Angeles
California
USA
Artist Statement
In the fall of 2018, I kept track of what I was doing all day long in a spreadsheet. Each activity I<br />assigned to one of half a dozen different categories, including child care, housework, art<br />practice, and sleep. I picked one week of that time period and during the course of my artist<br />residency at the Women’s Center for Creative Work in Los Angeles, turned it into Timesheet:<br />November 4–10, 2018, a work comprising seven weavings, one representing each day of that<br />week. I wove it during weekly studio hours, on my floor loom that I moved into the space for the<br />exhibition. By giving these ephemeral activities form through my weaving, I have created an<br />analog data visualization of invisible and undervalued domestic labor and transformed it into an<br />artwork with monetary and cultural value.
Topic
parenting
caretaking
caregiving
quantified self
weaving
textiles
fiber
labor
domestic labor
domestic
time
data visualization
tracking
visualization
capitalism
technology
industrialization
value
repetition
Exhibitions
Exhibitions in the Index that an artist has participated in. The two entries will be linked.
Pattern : Code, Women’s Center for Creative Work, Los Angeles, California. 2019
We Are Here, USC Pacific Asia Museum, Pasadena, California. 2020
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Title
A name given to the resource
Ahree Lee
California
capitalism
caregiving
caretaking
data visualization
domestic labor
domestic time
fiber
industrialization
labor
Los Angeles
new media
parenting
quantified self
repetition
technology
textiles
tracking
USA
value
video
visualization
weaving textiles
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Website
The Artist's website
<a href="http://www.babsiloisch.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.babsiloisch.com</a>
<a href="http://www.instagram.com/babsiactually/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">instagram.com/babsiactually/</a>
Medium
installation
video
photography
performance
public programming
sculpture
textile
drawing
reseach
writing
conceptual art
walking art
curation
Location
The location of the interview
Los Angeles
California
USA
Artist Statement
As an artist, conversationalist, mover, and archivist, I use video, sound as well as<br />unconventional and overlooked materials like words, time, relationships and movement as<br />components to create. My work revolves around acknowledging the body as simultaneous site<br />of production, care and labor.<br /><br /><br />While the body of the mother is still only barely tolerated within the contemporary art world, I<br />want to replace this isolation with the idea of sharing community in times of personal struggle.<br />By using "physicality as production" as a methodological principle my work provides glimpses<br />into the maze of enigmas - time precarity, gender roles within the arts, labor relations and the<br />body as a multifaceted vehicle - that I am trying to find a way through and that allows others to<br />share my questions and ask questions with me.<br /><br />Laying bare my experience in the strange, cozy, blurred zone of not being just one, but also not<br />being two the work aims to mirror and encourage an intimate approach to the interdependence<br />of minds and bodies. Embedded in curiosity, open-endedness and exposedness, I very much<br />believe in vulnerability and in art as a means of assemblage and survival in precarious times.<br />Seeing myself and my work as spinning a subtle thread of positive contamination, I want to think<br />of my practice as fostering a constellation in which art is a direct tribute to the spirit of sharing<br />and connection between communities.
Topic
care
labor
body
work
homework
gender roles
lactation
motherhood
parenthood
community
time
movement
parenting
caretaking
invisibility
production
Exhibitions
Exhibitions in the Index that an artist has participated in. The two entries will be linked.
2020 Homework, ArtCenter DTLA, Los Angeles
2020 Suffra-Jetting, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago
2019 CURRENT LA 2019- food, Palms Park, Los Angeles
2019 I’m here, Art in the Park, Los Angeles
2019 Female Gaze, Art Share LA, Los Angeles
2019 shifting staying changing dissolving, The Reef, Los Angeles
2018 Reading catalog launch Rattlesnake Bells in the Desert, LACE, Los Angeles
2018 Mileage Allowance, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena
2018 Mileage Allowance, 48 hours of Socially Engaged Art, RedLine, Denver
2018 Festival Screening MôTif Film Festival, Fairbanks, Alaska
2018 Mileage Allowance, HFA, Woodstock Artist Association & Museum, NY
2018 Rattlesnake Bells in the Desert, The Box, Los Angeles
2018 lactation room, CalArts, Los Angeles (solo)
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Title
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Babsi Loisch
body
Care
caretaking
community
conceptual art
curation
drawing
gender roles
homework
installation
invisibility
labor
lactation
motherhood
movement
parenthood
parenting
performance
photography
production
public programming
research
sculpture
textile
time
video
walking art
work
writing
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Person
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Website
The Artist's website
<a href="http://www.crystalannbrown.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">crystalannbrown.com</a>
Medium
multidisciplinary
interdisciplinary
Location
The location of the interview
Buckhannon
West Virginia
USA
Artist Statement
Crystal Ann Brown is an interdisciplinary artist/mother/academic currently working in
Buckhannon, West Virginia. For the past 9 years, her work has focused on holistically
blending art and life. This blending of her studio practice with her daily life also touches on
its inherent challenges. In her words, “my love/hate relationship with my kitchen might
manifest in my drawings and paintings that celebrate work and the labor of love with a hint
of fury and frustration shown in the economy of line found in blind contour drawings.” Her
practice strives to reveal the underappreciated aspects of mothering and everyday life
through the use of textiles, sculpture, time-based media, social practice and drawing.
Topic
labor
caretaking
mothering
play
domestic labor
naptime
cooking
cleaning chores
laundry
postpartum body
house
home
nursing
breast milk
family
Exhibitions
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2019 Why Mom, Commonweath Galley, Madison, WI
2019 Re : Birth, Edinburgh Palette, St. Margaret’s House, Edinburgh, Scotland
2018 Home Makers, Romano Gallery, Charleston, WV
2015 Interior Spaces (solo exhibition) Sleeth Gallery, Buckhannon, WV
2013 Shared Space (solo exhibition), The Hown’s Den, Kansas City, KS
2012 The Sea: Between Speech and Language (solo exhibition), Siegfried Gallery, Athens, OH
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Title
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Crystal Ann Brown
breast milk
Buckhannon
caretaking
chores
cleaning
cooking
domestic labor
family
home
house
interdisciplinary
labor
laundry
mothering
multidisciplinary
naptime
nursing
play
postpartum body
WV
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Person
An individual.
Website
The Artist's website
<a href="http://www.whatfandoes.com">www.whatfandoes.com</a>
Topic
birth
labour
post-partum
data visualization
Medium
Soundscape and hand knitted blanket
Artist Statement
“Labour” is a hand knitted data visualisation that tells the story of my daughter’s birth. Each square represents one of the 15 hours between my waters breaking and my daughter being born. Different colours, patterns and textures indicate where I was, what emotions I went through, the intensity of the contractions and other sensations, the support I received, and what hormone likely dominated the situation. The blanket is accompanied by a 5mn audio soundscape. The act of knitting evokes waiting, expectation and hours of hard work. Thus, it becomes an accurate reflection of pre-birth and labour. During the few days preceding and following her birth, all I wanted was to crawl into bed and hide from the outside world. It is likely that my body was craving melatonin, a hormone released in dark, calm and safe situations. Melatonin boosts the production of the birth hormone, oxytocin, which in turns helps to release endorphins, our bodies’ natural pain relief. The blanket represents the place of safety I was craving during that time.
Location
The location of the interview
London
United Kingdom
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Title
A name given to the resource
Fan Sissoko
birth
data visualization
labor
labour
Post-partum.
sound scape
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Person
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Website
The Artist's website
<a href="http://www.jessicamuellerart.com">www.jessicamuellerart.com</a>
Topic
domesticity
labor
weight
care
intersectionality
Medium
interdisciplinary
embroidery
video
printmaking
painting
performance
sculpture
Artist Statement
Jessica Mueller is an artist, writer, and educator who explores domesticity, labor and translation. She examines motherhood through ideas of care, service, weight and absurdity. Mueller engages multiple modes of making including embroidery, video, printmaking, painting, performance, and sculpture. She is interested in relationships to process, multiples, connectivity and site. Mueller is a Chicago-based teaching artist that has been partnering with Chicago Arts Partnerships in Education (CAPE) and Chicago Public Schools since 2004. Formerly a Program Manager at CAPE, she developed and supported partnerships for over forty artists, art teachers, and academic teachers, while working with principles and district officials. She holds a MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She exhibits locally and nationally, and her work is part of the permanent collections at SAIC’s Joan Flasch Artists’ Book Collection, Columbia College’s Center for Book and Paper Arts, and the Library of Congress. Mueller is a member of the Chicago ACT Collective and Mother Art: Revisited.
Exhibitions
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<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/452">Extended Self: Transformations and Connections</a>
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Jessica Mueller
Title
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Jessica Mueller
and sculpture
Care
domesticity
embroidery
intersectionality
labor
painting
performance
printmaking
video
weight
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Person
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Website
The Artist's website
<a href="http://komsomolfilms.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://komsomolfilms.com/</a>
Topic
childbirth
pregnancy
labor
care labor
maternal anxiety
feminism
Medium
film
video
Artist Statement
IRENE LUSZTIG is a filmmaker, visual artist, archival researcher, and amateur seamstress. Her film and video work mines old images and technologies for new meanings in order to reframe, recuperate, and reanimate forgotten and neglected histories. Often beginning with rigorous research in archives, her work brings historical materials into conversation with the present day, inviting viewers to explore historical spaces as a way to contemplate larger questions of politics, ideology, and the production of personal, collective, and national memories. Much of her work is centered on public feminism, language, and histories of women and women’s bodies, including her debut feature Reconstruction (2001), the feature length archival film essay The Motherhood Archives (2013), the ongoing web-based Worry Box Project (2011), and her newest performative documentary feature Yours in Sisterhood (2018).
Location
The location of the interview
Santa Cruz
California
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/4" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Complicated Labors</a>
<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/64" target="_blank" rel="noopener">New Marternalisms - Chile</a>
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Irene Lusztig
Title
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Irene Lusztig
California
care labor
childbirth
feminism
film
labor
maternal anxiety
pregnancy
Santa Cruz
video
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Exhibition Archive
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Exhibition Title
Of Women
Exhibition Website
<a href="https://www.rockawayartistsalliance.org/" target="_blank">https://www.rockawayartistsalliance.org/</a>
Gallery
Studio 7 Gallery, Fort Tilden
Location
The location of the interview
Rockaway
New York
Curatorial Statement
In celebration of Women’s History Month, Rockaway Artist Alliance honors women and women artists of our generation.<br /><br />Madison Ohmane Artist Statement: Artificial Human Milk The disconnect between mother and infant. The mother’s milk is removed from the breasts with a machine, it is transported, it is cooled for preservation, it is stored and readily available for consumption at a later date, it is consumed by the infant every 3 hours in her presence or not. The direct relationship between mother and infant is removed. The process becomes mechanical. The milk becomes a product. The mother’s milk becomes artificial. When the mother/infant relationship is diminished, what is the end result? What happens when the infant is removed from the mother’s womb and placed in an artificial environment? What happens when the substance made specifically for the infant is replaced with something artificial? When does science take a step back and let nature resume its course? Or not? This work, Artificial Human Milk utilizes familiar plastic milk jugs and infant bottle nipples to represent food as commodity. The objects are placed at eye height to confront the viewer’s relationship with their own children; with their own mother.
Artists
<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/51" target="_blank">Madison Ohmane</a>
Duration
Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.)
March 10 - April 8, 2018
Topic
food systems
breast milk
breast feeding
breast pump
pumping
bottle
milk jug
Related Resource
<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/51" target="_blank">http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/51</a>
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Of Women
bottle
breast milk
breast pump
breastfeeding
food systems
labor
milk jug
New York
pumping
Rockaway
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Exhibition Archive
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Curatorial Statement
The Pearl Conard Gallery at Ohio State Mansfield is proud to present Labors: An Exhibition Exploring the Complexities of Motherhood, curated by Kate Shannon, Associate Professor in the Department of Art at Ohio State. The exhibition is made possible through a Coca-Cola Critical Difference for Women Grant for Research on Women, Gender, and Gender Equity from the Department of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Ohio State University. Shannon says, “I am a visual artist and a new mother. As I begin to examine this life transition artistically, I am seeking out other artists who address motherhood in their work. Labors is an exhibition that explores the complexities of motherhood while giving other mother-artists a platform to share their joys, anxieties, and traumas.”
Topic
motherhood
joy
trauma
anxiety
Location
The location of the interview
Pearl Conard Gallery
Curator
Kate Shannon
Duration
Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.)
Monday, February 26 – Friday, March 23, 2018
Exhibition Website
<a href="https://u.osu.edu/pcagallery/upcoming-exhibition/" target="_blank">https://u.osu.edu/pcagallery/upcoming-exhibition/</a>
Gallery
Pearl Conard Gallery
Artists
Erin Holscher Almazan
Diana Baumbach
Adina Bricklin
Erin Elizabeth
Allison Ellingson
Nicole Foran
Zoe Freney
Jessica Gardner
Megan Hildebrandt
Victoria Hoyt
<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/1" target="_blank">Sarah Irvin</a>
<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/27" target="_blank">Courtney Kessel</a>
Minus Plato
Clare Qualmann
Kaitlynn Redell
Sheilah Restack
Corrie Thompson
Ellen J. Wetmore
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Labors
anxiety
joy
labor
motherhood
Ohio
Pearl Conard Gallery
The Ohio State University
trauma
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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.leslirobertson.com" target="_blank">http://www.leslirobertson.com</a>
<a href="http://www.leslirobertson.com/the-mother-load/" target="_blank">http://www.leslirobertson.com/the-mother-load/</a>
Medium
mixed media
textiles
installation
Location
The location of the interview
Denton
Texas
Artist Statement
<p>In my artwork and creative projects, I use textile based media as a tool for communication; to record and speak about the individual, society, and the hand of the maker. I work with concepts of time, labor, and cloth as a tool for personal expression. My current body of work explores the value of cloth on both a personal and societal level.</p>
<p>I create visual recordings through the use of detritus from my life and studio. These elements and works from the past are employed into new forms that serve to document and comment on the material objects that tangibly define the work of my hands. These are woven pieces, broken forms, and cut offs of previous works. They track time and place, creating a sequence of objects that allude to written text and recording through the use of fiber, concrete, and metal. Through community based interactive weavings, I am able to create works in collaboration with diverse individuals, providing each person a platform to express their ideas. I value textile objects and processes and by bringing them out of my studio, and recreating the way they are being perceived, I work to give the viewer a new perspective on their value.</p>
Topic
individual
society
time
labor
cloth
The Motherload Project
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Title
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Lesli Robertson
cloth
Denton
individual
installation
labor
mixed media
motherload
society
Texas
textiles
time
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Artist Parent Index
Person
An individual.
Website
The Artist's website
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Medium
conceptual art
textiles
metalsmithing
video
sound
sculpture
installation
performance
paper works
writing
Location
The location of the interview
Providence
Rhode Island
Artist Statement
My work is engaged in discourses around feminism, labor and technological change. Embedded in the works are confluences of technique and meaning, craft and digital media, and everyday materials with fine art forms. The work is situated at the nexus of life and art, and walks a boundary between work and love. Labor and love act broadly as dual domains which sustain my interest in the ways a subject acts and is acted upon by intersecting social, economic, intimate, emotional and political forces. While some works describe the ways in which labor and love converge in personal and economic experience, others begin to search for meanings of love that may deviate from material, economic conditions to transform the terms of our intimate and collective relationships.
Topic
labor
love
power
gender
consumerism
intimacy
communication
silence
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Title
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Lu Heintz
communication
conceptual art
consumerism
gender
installation
intimacy
labor
love
metalsmithing
paper works
performance
power
sculpture
silence
sound
textiles
video
writing
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Artist Parent Index
Person
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Website
The Artist's website
<a href="https://milaoshin1.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">https://milaoshin1.wordpress.com/</a>
Medium
writing
curating
poetry
video art
Topic
pregnancy
birth
home birth
childbirth trauma
Exhibitions
Exhibitions in the Index that an artist has participated in. The two entries will be linked.
<a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/19" target="_blank">Project Afterbirth - Curator</a>
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Title
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Mila Oshin
birth
childbirth trauma
curating
home birth
labor
poetry
pregnancy
writing
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Website
The Artist's website
<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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Title
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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