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Exhibition Archive
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Exhibition Website
<a href="https://robertshaneaesthetics.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f3d638d023c2b8aba5133a787&id=f5e4303876&e=647f8059de" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://RobertShaneAesthetics.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3Df3d638d023c2b8aba5133a787%26id%3Df5e4303876%26e%3D647f8059de&source=gmail&ust=1618061836931000&usg=AFQjCNHek-CHMLl819MI1IlCDP9e712UAg" rel="noopener">https://www.woodstockart.org/<wbr />vision-of-care/</a>
Museum
The Woodstock Artists Association & Museum
Curator
Robert R. Shane
Curatorial Statement
<div>The Vision of Care brings together work by 23 artists working across various media to highlight the role art plays, to use the words of care theorists Joan C. Tronto and Bernice Fisher, “in maintaining and repairing our world so that we can live in it as well as possible.”</div>
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<div>Artist/mothers lead this exhibition in an homage to the many pioneers, such as artist Mierle Laderman Ukeles and theorist Sara Ruddick, who for decades have been using maternal experiences to develop new ways of thinking about the ethics of care. Rebekah Tolley’s two new works created for The Vision of Care spotlight the crisis of inequity in our childcare system during the pandemic, which has made clear that those who care for young children in or outside of the home are essential workers. Kahori Kamiya’s explosive wall sculpture embodies the joy and struggles of breastfeeding, offering an antidote to the feelings of guilt that sometimes accompany the latter[...]</div>
Artists
Fern Apfel
Michelle Brandemuehl
Courtney Dudley
Ashley Garrett
Fran Goodwin
Courtney Haeick
Yasemin Kackar-Demirel
Kahori Kamiya
Carole Kunstadt
Linda Lauro-Lazin
Madison LaVallee
Jadina Lilien
Dorothea Osborn
Rob O’Neil
Lisa Poquette
Pam Poquette
Kelsey Renko
Richard Scherr
Christopher Skura
Rebekah Tolley
Hana Van der Kolk
Hanna Washburn
Brian Wood
Duration
Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.)
April 9 – May 23, 2021
Topic
care
parenting
nature
loss
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The Vision of Care
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Person
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Website
The Artist's website
<a href="christianaupdegraff.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">christianaupdegraff.com</a>
Topic
dichotomy of artist/mother
comfort
loss
corporeal deterioration
time
uncertainty
fear
stagnation
Medium
sculpture
metalsmithing
silicone
polyester
resin
cement
graphite
enamel
sterling silver
cotton
wool
silk
human hair
Artist Statement
It may be a result of being a vessel of comfort, or perhaps better stated; a servant of comfort, I am particularly interested in the objects of human comfort in conjunction with imagery of emptiness and decay. I am also intrigued by the interior and exterior views, and careful placement of work in a gallery setting which allows the viewer to gain access to the inside of a piece, but never fully experience or access it. These themes have been prevalent in other work, work which preceded my role of mother, but I could not fully see all of the parallels between old and new work until becoming a mother. It has made me more human. It has made me warmer. It has certainly made me more intuitive.
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Christiana Updegraff
Title
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Christiana E. Updegraff
artist/mother; comfort
corporeal deterioration
fear
loss
metalsmithing
sculpture
stagnation
time
uncertainty
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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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motHER/child
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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
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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
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Alison Chen
breastfeeding
loss
miscarriage
motherhood
performance
photography
postpartum body
video
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Person
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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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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
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Person
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Website
The Artist's website
<a href="https://www.corinnebotz.com/milk-factory2" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.corinnebotz.com/milk-factory2</a>
Medium
photography
video
Location
The location of the interview
Brooklyn
New York
Artist Statement
Seeing and acknowledging what we see has an ethical dimension. I use photography to
make things visible and to reveal experience or spaces that we might not otherwise have access to. A sustained focus on space, gender, and the body is central to my work with photography. Lactation rooms are everyday spaces that embody deeply felt subjective experiences of motherhood. Symbolically and materially, expressed milk is a substitute for the mother’s physical presence and emotional intimacy when separated from her child. Photographs in my series “Milk Factory,” offer insight into women’s personal experiences, the maternal body’s status in the workplace, and ideological contradictions inherent in modern parenthood and government policies. The photographs are named for the diverse professions of the pumping women. The solitary pumping rooms take on collective power through the accumulation of photographs.
Topic
caretaking
labor
artist mother
art making
attachment
separation
breastmilk
breast pump
body
care giving
care labor
care work
caregiving
conceptual art
early motherhood
emotional space
empathy
environment
everyday life
familial heritage
female experience
feminism
feminist art
loss
life balance
lactation
intimacy
maternal body
maternal experience
maternal desire
milk
mother's body
pumping
space
subjectivity
solitary
government policy
workplace
photography and motherhood
physical space
work/life balance
workspace
wage
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/417" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Baxter ST Camera Club of New York</a>
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Title
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Corinne Botz
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Person
An individual.
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
A name given to the resource
Tracy Marie Taylor
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Artist Parent Index
Person
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Website
The Artist's website
<a href="http://www.JessicaBinghamArt.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">JessicaBinghamArt.com</a>
Topic
Childhood nostalgia of herself and now her growing daughter, as well as the house(s) she grew up in and the one where she raises her daughter.Her work also deals with loss, specifically that of a close childhood friend and their relationship, while also reflecting on the deep love and newness of motherhood in her current life.
motherhood
loss
Medium
painting
installation
assemblage
Artist Statement
Tangled thoughts of childhood and early adulthood are the core of my work. I am interested in the process of reflecting and recreating personal childhood memories through pairing happier moments with times that reveal the harsh reality of the human condition. After the passing of my closest childhood friend, due to drug addiction, memories from my youth resurfaced. Since his death, I have been dissecting our friendship, mulling over the years as it developed from innocent childhood play to complex and confused interactions of our early adulthood, a time he never left. Vivid memories of playing outside, building forts, and exploring the cemetery across from our homes are interwoven with late night bar sounds, long summer days, and tiresome arguments. As I wrestle with this new reality, my work has become an attempt to preserve those memories. The smell of grass, our blue playhouse, Barbie and G.I. Joe. Loose tie-dye shirts, tombstones across the street, memories that still, and will, play on repeat. Awkward knees and bright eyes, forts for us alone. Desires to be older, longing to be children, pain took you forever, and I took her home.
Location
The location of the interview
Peoria
Illinios
USA
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Jessica Bingham
Title
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Jessica Bingham
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Artist Parent Index
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Website
The Artist's website
<p class="p1"><a href="jesstaylorartist.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">jesstaylorartist.com</a></p>
Medium
sculpture
new media
Location
The location of the interview
Adelaide
Australia
Artist Statement
<p class="p1">I am an early career artist whose practice explores my fascination with fictional horror through primarily digital methods of making. Within the broader realm of horror, I have a particular interest in monsters, voyeurism, and depictions of female brutality, sadism, and masochism. Using my own image and body exclusively, my work presents versions of womanhood that transgress the bounds of what we are taught is acceptable, uncanny spectres of female experience that society is keen to repress. Here, monstrosity is configured as a source of damnation and agency, reflecting womanhood as complex and contradictory.</p>
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<p class="p3">My own experience as a mother has been one of profound contradiction, of exhilarating highs and profound lows, of love and fury, comfort and trauma. I struggle to reconcile the fact that the greatest time in my life is also the one when it was the darkest, and that my body birthed a miracle but feels like a ruin. I am not as I was, but not quite sure what I am now; I’ve yet to turn into anything resembling the gargantuan mother archetype we’re fed, and too much of the old Jess remains for me to consider myself someone new. I have been transformed, reborn, reconfigured using the old parts. Some days those new parts feel like they were made of steel, making me infinitely stronger than I was, and other days that steel bites into my flesh, broken limbs fused back together suddenly failing to bear my weight.</p>
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<p class="p3">Motherhood is a monstrous condition; it is incredible and disturbing, beautiful and completely fucked up. Like monstrosity, it is transformative, and for the woman-monster, this transformation is a source of both agency and damnation, strength and weakness. My work since my son is in part an attempt to reconcile the contradiction inherent in my own experience of motherhood, and to bridge the divide between what I am and what we are told a mother should be.</p>
<p class="p3">Experiencing pregnancy for the second time has greatly influenced my work, causing me to reflect much more closely on the process of bearing a child. There is the strange bodily awareness and attempts to reconcile this cavernous space that exists within me, and evocations of my own paranoias as I imagine this space as a place of both hope and doom. I like to think there is also some absurdity when one looks at a ridiculous, bulbous woman, or my lady-giants, but there is also the tenderness of the nets that keep the babies close to her body, or the way a stomach is opened up to sate the curiosity of the smaller figures who peer inside. There is the sorrow of the figure on the bridge as she surveys the fallen before her (a mediation on periods in history where the practice of fallen-mothers ending their lives and the lives of their offspring was not only a grim expectation, but an act of redemption), and my attempt to see a ruin as a place of beauty and life.</p>
Topic
abjection
ambivalence
anger
anxiety
artist mother
attachment
autonomy
bad mother
birth
birth trauma
body transformation
boundaries
childbirth
contemporary
contemporary art practice
contradictions
domestic
family ties
female experience
female sexuality
feminine
femininity
feminism
feminist
feminist art
feminist art theory
fertility
grotesque
growth
guilt
identity
loneliness
longing
loss
loss of identity
maternal ambivalence
maternal anxiety
maternal body
maternal desire
maternal experience
maternal fear
maternal guilt
mother
mother artist
motherhood
postpartum body
pregnancy
pregnant body
psychoanalysis
representation
science fiction
self portrait
technology
trauma
voyeurism
womb
women
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Title
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Jess Taylor
abjection
ambivalence
anger
anxiety
artist mother
attachment
Australia
autonomy
bad mother
birth
birth trauma
body transformation
boundaries
childbirth
contemporary art
contemporary art practice
contradictions
domestic
family ties
female experience
female sexuality
feminine
femininity
feminism
feminist
feminist art
feminist art theory
feminist theory
fertility
grotesque
growth
guilt
identity
loneliness
longing
loss
loss of identity
maternal
maternal ambivalence
maternal anxiety
maternal bodies
maternal body
maternal desire
maternal experience
maternal fear
maternal guilt
mother
mother artist
motherhood
new media
postpartum body
pregnancy
pregnant body
psychoanalysis
representation
science fiction
sculpture
self portrait
technology
trauma
voyeurism
womb
women
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Artist Parent Index
Person
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Website
The Artist's website
<p><a href="https://monikastocktonmadd.wixsite.com/maddux">https://monikastocktonmadd.wixsite.com/maddux</a></p>
Medium
installation
sculpture
Location
The location of the interview
Wichita
Kansas
USA
Artist Statement
My research is into the multiple aspects of motherhood and I am investigating the obsession that develops in response to the psychological impact of loss, specifically the effects of miscarriage. To that I’ve added a study about the desire to become like my mother and the inability to do the same mother/daughter things I had anticipated. This desire developed into an obsession. I am curious about why I feel I need to produce a female offspring. I have asked myself if it stems from a maternal need that is unfulfilled by my sons, or if it was ingrained in me by my family dynamic, the environment in which I was raised. I was either naturally predisposed to nurture or I was trained, from the beginning, when I received my first doll that cared for, pretended was my own child and named her Hannah. My mother had 3 daughters and she made matching dresses for us and I couldn’t wait until I had a daughter to wear my handmade dresses. I am examining whether it is that I WANT to be like my mother or that I am EXPECTED to be like my mother.
The narratives of MONIKAHOUSE are; motherhood, loss caused by miscarriage, obsession and its manifestations, desperation, dealing with resolution and hard adoptions of reality. All the work stems from this ‘brain’. It represents all my experiences as a mother, a daughter, a sister, a wife. In this space, I can create or recreate any experience I wish. It is an environment akin to a forest. It is often that you are not allowed to remove or even directly interact with the environment, however, you are encouraged to simply observe. An experience that is no less dynamic than if you were allowed to interact. Think Hiking verses Camping.
For the last several years I have been creating rooms in a house, now I am using a house for installations of rooms. My thesis exhibition consists of sixteen rooms in an 1891 Queen Anne home that I have transformed into my life size dollhouse. I have used textiles, ready-made objects from my childhood, furniture and building materials, to create a continuous body of work.
Topic
miscarriage
fertility
infertility
keepsakes
obsession
pregnancy tests
installation art
performance art
dollhouse
life size dollhouse
monikahouse
womanhouse
motherhood
loss
daughter
Exhibitions
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MONIKAHOUSE in Riverside. MFA Thesis Exhibition. Wichita, KS. (2019)
Publications
A catalog or monograph published by the artist
Sometime Babies Die, Children’s Book. March 2019
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Title
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Monika Stockton Maddux
daughter
dollhouse
fertility
infertility
installation
installation art
keepsakes
life size dollhouse
loss
miscarriage
monikahouse
motherhood
obsession
performance art
pregnancy tests
sculpture
womanhouse
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Echoes of Silence
Description
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film still
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Artist Parent Index
Person
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Website
The Artist's website
<a href="http://www.sarabrighty.co.uk">www.sarabrighty.co.uk</a>
Topic
pregnancy
birth
miscarriage
loss
Medium
mixed media
installation
photography
drawing
scuplture
Artist Statement
<p style="font-weight: 400;">My ongoing practise researches and investigates parenthood, including; pregnancy, child birth, the relationships we have with our children, and considers that parenthood may not always be that of gaining a child but may be about losing them too.</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">I create installations as a visual interpretation of sensitive and personal experiences. I work across a variety mediums and disciplines using photography and film, painting, drawing and sculpture and the components can also be viewed as individual pieces.</p>
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Sara Brighty
Title
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Sara Brighty
birth
drawing
installation
installation art
loss
miscarriage
photography
pregnancy
sculpture
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Website
The Artist's website
<a href="http://lupitatinnen.com/Mourning_Sickness.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://lupitatinnen.com/Mourning_Sickness.html</a>
Medium
photography
Location
The location of the interview
Denton
Texas
Artist Statement
Mourning Sickness deals with my struggle with infertility beginning in September 2005. I never would have imagined that having a baby would be so much work. I was always under the false impression (thanks to my high school sex-ed class and Mexican parents) that if you have sex you will get pregnant unfailingly. For over 6 million American couples, trying to conceive is an excruciating nightmare, an emotional rollercoaster ride, which is beyond stressful. It’s demanding. It takes every ounce of energy, and when it doesn’t happen month after month, year after year, we question our womanhood. When we have to resign ourselves to alternative methods, artificial methods, it’s disheartening and overwhelming. I never thought I would be one of those women. Accepting the fact that I may remain childless has been the most difficult struggle, the biggest challenge I have ever faced. It felt much like grief, so this work is about the empty feeling and numbness that I felt as I was going through the grieving process.
Topic
infertility
loss
grief
miscarriage
powerlessness
sadness
maternal desire
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Title
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Lupita Murillo Tinnen
grief
infertility
loss
maternal desire
miscarriage
photography
powerlessness
sadness
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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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Person
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Website
The Artist's website
<a href="http://traceykershaw.co.uk/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://traceykershaw.co.uk/</a>
<a href="https://www.facebook.com/tellmeaboutyourmother/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.facebook.com/tellmeaboutyourmother/</a>
Medium
social practice
video art
Location
The location of the interview
Nottingham
England
United Kingdom
Artist Statement
Tracey studied Fine Art at the University of Nottingham, and since graduating in 2011 has been developing her practice, which focuses on aspects of the maternal, including her evolving relationship with her son. She currently lives and works in Nottingham, practising from Backlit Studios.<br />Tracey’s maternal experience is central to her art practice. The profound and often overwhelming emotions that her motherhood brings have driven her to engage with other interrelated subjects such as fertility, ageing and the fragility of time passing.<br /><br />After creating and exhibiting a number of maternally-themed works, Tracey undertook a one year residency at the University of Nottingham in 2012/13, and used this time to start developing her current project ‘tell me about your mother’. While her early work focussed mainly on her own relationship with her son, ‘tell me about your mother’ takes a less introspective direction, aiming to both celebrate and expose the powerful, yet often problematic, relationships between mothers and their children.
Topic
motherhood
aging
fertility
passage of time
mother/son relationship
son
loss
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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Title
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Tracey Kershaw
aging
England
fertility
mother/son relationship
motherhood
Nottingham
social practice
son
United Kingdom
video art
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Website
The Artist's website
<a href="http://danilarumold.com/gestationpaintings/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://danilarumold.com/gestationpaintings/</a>
<span> </span><a href="http://danilarumold.com/#/abstractnarratives/" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://danilarumold.com/%23/abstractnarratives/&source=gmail&ust=1558475421198000&usg=AFQjCNFLJoC7uNy6CiP5m-9eRloxpt7mNw" rel="noopener">http://danilarumold.<wbr />com/#/abstractnarratives/</a>
Medium
painting
drawing
mixed media
Location
The location of the interview
Albuquerque
New Mexico
USA
Artist Statement
<strong>Gestation:</strong> As the name suggests it was inspired by my pregnancies. Responding to my experience of motherhood, my work is involved with the repetitive nature of parenting and how that can been reflected in art and the practice of mindfulness. Other concerns within the work are family, the process of birthing and its counterpart, loss. Although these issues have been personal concerns, they are ones which have been shared by woman throughout history.
<span>Danila Rumold’s current series dissolves things seemingly in opposition. Deconstructing conventional notions of painting in her work, Rumold crosses over from painting into large-scale collage and installation. Employing household tools, such as stove-top burners and washing machines in the materials’ preparation, she blurs the commonly separated roles of care-taking and art-making. Sleeping, cooking and eating on top of paper results in spontaneous mark-making, which Rumold explores as formal abstractions while referencing the body. Using semi-translucent Mulberry paper stained with earthy colors made from regional plant and food dyes, Danila brings the components together with readymade art materials. Inviting everyday experiences and chance to catalyze the work, Rumold integrates the unconscious and conscious; art and life.</span>
Topic
gestation
pregnancy
repetition
loss
mindfulness
family dynamics
Exhibitions
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<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/495">Painting at Night, Fort Houston Gallery, Nashville, TN</a>
<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/496">A Path Described by a Body, Casa Otro, Las Cruces, NM</a>
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Title
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Danila Rumold
California
family dynamics
family life
gestation
mindfulness
motherhood
pregnancy
repetition
San Francisco