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Artist Parent Index
Person
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Website
The Artist's website
<a href="http://www.mequittaahuja.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><b>http://www.mequittaahuja.com</b></a>
Medium
painting
drawing
Location
The location of the interview
Weston
Connecticut
Topic
pregnancy
IVF
miscarriage
sleep
death/birth
grandmother
maternal lineage
love
fertility
family
the body
mother and child
self-portraiture
home
domesticity
grief
sonograms
art history
Exhibitions
Exhibitions in the Index that an artist has participated in. The two entries will be linked.
Riffs and Relations: African American Artists and the European Modernist Tradition, Curated by Adrienne L. Childs
The Phillips Collection, Washington DC
February 29 - May, 24, 2020
Community
Flint Institute of Art, Flint, MI
January 26 - April 19, 2020
Intricatcies: Fragment and Meaning
August 8 - September 14, 2019
Aicon Gallery
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Title
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Mequitta Ahuja
art history.
death/birth
domesticity
drawing
family
fertility
grandmother
grief
home
IVF
love
maternal lineage
miscarriage
mother and child
painting
pregnancy
self-portraiture
sleep
sonograms
the body
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Website
The Artist's website
<a href="http://www.marciasantore.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">www.marciasantore.com</span></a>
Medium
painting
Location
The location of the interview
New Hampshire
USA
Artist Statement
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">I am a contemporary painter living and working in rural New Hampshire, where I live with my husband and two sons. As a child and an adult, I have lived on all three coasts and in between, and traveled extensively throughout the United States and Europe. Now I live in a small New England town. Much of the reason that I live where I live, see what I see, and think about what I think about, is because I am a parent. Being a parent has influenced my work by influencing the choices I have made about where and how to live. These choices, in turn, present different roads for my artwork and for my professional career as an artist than would be the case if I did not have children. Many of my artist colleagues are also artist-mothers whose situations are similar to my own. We are finding ways to work together to create opportunities for ourselves well outside of the usual “art world” venues. </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Painting is an essential part of who I am, and I have continued to develop my work, exhibit, and sell whenever possible. I began painting in oils in college and continued until my first pregnancy, when I switched to acrylics. This was the first example of the many times that parenthood and art needed to find new ways to coexist in my life! </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">As a parent, I am always doing more than one thing at a time, and as an artist, I see no reason to limit myself to only one style or way of working. Most of my work is not explicitly on the subject of parenthood or reproduction. But it shows up again and again in different ways and in different series. Sometimes it’s visceral—like </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Lupa</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, a wolf with two babies. The painting is on loose canvas, nailed to the wall, with slashes from her claws. Sometimes it’s joyous and chaotic—like </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Strong Nuclear Force</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, a dancing woman with four legs and a baby under each arm. Some are mysterious—like </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Inside, Mothers Are Dancing, </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">which hints at the nature of mothers together. Some are more remote—even elegiac, like </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Minivan Series.</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">It’s always been important to me as a parent to set an example for my boys of what women really are—separate individuals with their own lives, their own work, their own dreams, their own futures—not just the mothers who take care of them. At the same time, raising my children is all-consuming and wonderful. As my boys grow up, what they need from me grows and changes. I wouldn’t be surprised to see that reflected in my work. </span></p>
Topic
motherhood
parenting
caretaking
chaos
wildness
babies
love
loss
animal
nature
passion
ferocity
Exhibitions
Exhibitions in the Index that an artist has participated in. The two entries will be linked.
Nourish, Museum of the White Mountains, Plymouth NH, 2020
A Second Look, Kimball-Jenkins Galleries, Concord NH, 2018
Solo exhibition: Pattern in Motion, University of Connecticut–Stamford Art Gallery, 2017
At Large, Gateway Gallery, Great Bay Community College, Portsmouth NH, 2017
<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/476">MOMMA, Silver Center for the Arts, Plymouth State University, Plymouth NH, 2014 (curator)</a>
Works of Fiction: Paintings by Marcia Santore, Epsom Public Library, Epsom NH, 2012
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Title
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Marcia Santore
animal
babies
caretaking
chaos
ferocity
loss
love
motherhood
nature
New Hampshire
painting
parenting
passion
USA
wildness
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Website
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<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
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<a href="http://carriescanga.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">http://carriescanga.com/</a>
Topic
postpartum maternal subjectivity
embodied parenting
attachment
sleep
love
caregiving
postpartum
Medium
installation
printmaking
Artist Statement
Carrie Scanga is a multi-disciplinary artist whose installations and works on paper reflect on personal mythologies, examine nostalgias for place and identity, and engage theories from ecology, architecture and design. Scanga attended Bryn Mawr College as an undergraduate and earned an MFA in Printmaking from University of Washington. She has held solo exhibitions in Berlin, Kansas City, Houston, St. Louis, and Philadelphia among other locales. Her work has been included in group exhibitions in commercial galleries, artist-run spaces, and museums, including the Portland Museum of Art, the Kingston Museum of Contemporary Art, PLUG Projects, Islip Art Museum, and Tiger Strikes Asteroid. Fellowship awards from the Pollock Krasner Foundation, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, the New York Foundation for the Arts, The MacDowell Colony, Sculpture Space, Blue Mountain Center, and Fundación Valparaíso have supported the development of her work. Currently based in Maine, she is an Associate Professor at Bowdoin College where she also directs the Marvin Bileck Printmaking Project visiting artist program.
Location
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Portland
Maine
USA
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Carrie Scanga
Title
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Carrie Scanga
attachment
care taking
caregivers
caregiving
installation
installation art
love
Maine
Portland
postpartum maternal subjectivity
sleep
USA
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<div style="text-align:left;"><a href="http://www.luheintz.com/" target="_blank">http://www.luheintz.com/</a></div>
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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Lu Heintz
communication
conceptual art
consumerism
gender
installation
intimacy
labor
love
metalsmithing
paper works
performance
power
sculpture
silence
sound
textiles
video
writing