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Exhibition Website
<a href="https://www.baxterst.org/exhibitions-3/bodies-of-work/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.baxterst.org/exhibitions-3/bodies-of-work/</a>
Gallery
Baxter ST Camera Club of New York
Location
The location of the interview
New York
New York
Curator
<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/416" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Corinne Botz</a>
Curatorial Statement
Bodies of Work, a group show curated by Corinne Botz, considers maternal experiences, with works by contemporary artists Marina Berio, Patty Chang, Lenka Clayton, Jamie Diamond, Nona Faustine, Alison Elizabeth Taylor, and Cao Yu. The artworks are stylistically diverse and incorporate a range of approaches, exploring inter-related themes including the body, time, politics, love, attachment, and separation. Normative and coherent ideals of motherhood are challenged, and the maternal is considered as a vital political force.
There has been a surge of artworks, books, and articles about motherhood over the past few years. To paraphrase a recent Paris Review article by Lauren Elkin, motherhood is finally being taken seriously in wider arts and a canon of motherhood is beginning to take shape. The subject of motherhood is urgent in the current political climate where there is a need to guarantee women control over their bodies. Women have begun to speak more candidly about health issues and biological processes that have in the past been cloaked in secrecy. Recent news articles have revealed bias against pregnant women and mothers in the workplace, and in spring 2018 the United States stunned the world when it declined to back a seemingly uncontroversial resolution to support breastfeeding in underdeveloped countries. For much of art history the subject of mothers were represented by men. Earlier generations of female artists often chose a career over motherhood or steered clear of explicitly addressing motherhood in their work because it was dismissed.
In this exhibition, maternal experiences, both overtly and obliquely, are transmitted into works that challenge preconceptions about being a mother and artist, while acknowledging the continued lack of resources and obstacles. The artists in Bodies of Work contribute something new to representations of motherhood, and offer an opportunity to delve deeper into the multiplicities that shape us.
Artists
Marina Berio
Patty Chang
<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/44" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lenka Clayton</a>
Jamie Diamond
Nona Faustine
Alison Elizabeth Taylor
Cao Yu
Duration
Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.)
April 16 – April 27, 2019
Topic
artist mother
art making
artists with children
attachment
separation
artist/mother
blood
breast milk
breast pump
breastmilk
body
care giving
care labor
care work
caretaking
caregiving
conceptual art
early motherhood
emotional space
empathy
environment
everyday life
familial heritage
female body
female experience
feminism
feminist art
loss
love
life balance
lactation
intimacy
maternal body
maternal experience
maternal desire
milk
menstruation
motherhood and creative practice
mother's body
mortality
mixed-race children
performativity
pumping
space
subjectivity
photography and motherhood
physical space
still life
women artists
work/life balance
workspace
masculinity
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Bodies of Work