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Title
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Artist Parent Index
Person
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Website
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<a href="http://emiliawhite.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://emiliawhite.com/</a>
Medium
performance
video
animation
Location
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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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Title
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Emilia White
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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.pennydavis.com" target="_blank">www.pennydavis.com</a>
Topic
making with children
play
toys
food
naughtiness
mother's verb list
Medium
sculpture
video performance
Location
The location of the interview
Leicester
United Kingdom
Artist Statement
I am an artist working primarily in sculpture but also, drawing and video performance. I am interested in exploring the connections between maternal subjectivity and sculptural form and process. Building upon the legacy of artists such as Barbara Hepworth and Phyllida Barlow but also inspired by Richard Serra’s ‘Verb List’, I make sculptural assemblages using materials for their specific values as they can be applied to my experience of motherhood. Most recently this practice has extended to video and performance and I have begun to use my own children as assistants in the work I produce.<br /><br /> Aesthetically and politically, I am engaged with a history of abstract sculpture which carries the weight of a very masculine modernism, minimalism and post-minimalism. Yet, I am particularly interested in how Kristeva’s psychoanalytic theories of maternal experience intersect with existing assumptions of abstraction in contemporary sculpture, of how sculpture might reveal the physical and emotional tensions of maternal ambivalence. I am interested in how abstraction can articulate maternal embodiment and the phenomenological experience of motherhood and how the interactions between form and material might reveal this.<br /><br />The sculpture has become concerned with this relationship between mother and child as temporary and contingent. The materials are both fragile and of low value: willow, packaging, polystyrene, building materials. There is a combination of natural and synthetic, using materials and processes to explore tensions associated with fine art and craft. The integrity of support is always in question in the sculptures dependency upon the environment. The viewer is never quite sure of which part supports what, and if you took a part away, there is the feeling that the entire structure would fall apart. An illusionistic treatment of material generates a mystery around its original identity – natural apes synthetic and vice versa. Within the construction, qualities of weight and strength are confused by their placement in relation to other sculptural parts or to the architecture. Surfaces are intensely worked to create a contradiction in scale: the viewer must physically engage with the sculpture whilst also pausing to observe intimate surface detail.
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Penny Davis
Title
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Penny Davis
food
Leicester
play
sculpture
toys
United Kingdom
video performance
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Artist Parent Index
Person
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Website
The Artist's website
<a href="http://www.fisherclay.com/" target="_blank">www.fisherclay.com</a><a href="http://fisherclay.com/gallery/2015-present/" target="_blank"><br /></a>
Artist Statement
<p><span style="font-size:small;"><span>My work is either for or about the home.</span><br /><br />My artistic beginnings are deeply rooted in a potpourri of traditions that surround functional wares. I continue to respect and honor utilitarianism while simultaneously developing a body of sculptural forms. My work is either for or about the home. To me the home is more than a specific place or structure. It is often a feeling and/or geographic location. I am drawn to the domestic environment through personal artifacts, repetitious rituals and intimate relationships. The act of creating artwork that stems from this notion dissolves the boundaries between my home and studio. It allows me to embrace both the permanent and the ephemeral qualities of place and life. This mode of working unifies the home with the studio and creates an all-encompassing life aesthetic.</span></p>
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Medium
ceramics
Location
The location of the interview
Minnesota
United States
Topic
domesticity
motherhood
children
child care
relationships
domestic aesthetics
toys
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Title
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Kate Fisher
aesthetic
ceramic art
child care
children
domestic
life balance
Minnesota
motherhood
relationships
United States
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Exhibition Archive
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Exhibition Website
<a href="http://www.ollyollyart.com/exhibitions" target="_blank">http://www.ollyollyart.com/exhibitions</a>
<a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1666488403640036/" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/events/1666488403640036/</a>
<a href="http://artistparentindex.com/files/original/0a2db581bf5cedf7a4f167557e29c36d.pdf" target="_blank">EXHIBITION CATALOG</a>
Gallery
<a href="http://www.ollyollyart.com/" target="_blank">Olly Olly</a>
Location
The location of the interview
Fairfax
Virginia
Curator
<a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/1" target="_blank">Sarah Irvin</a>
Curatorial Statement
For Domestic Territories, Washington DC area artists were invited to consider how they negotiate the use of household space with their children. The work in the show investigates physical and emotional spaces that are separate, shared or disputed. By representing the constant evolution of personal boundaries in specific parent/child relationships, the exhibit highlights topics that are publicly debated but only privately encountered. The exhibit makes use of the gallery walls, windows, ceiling, and bathroom. Artists explore the language their children use to claim space, lack of boundaries in the home, domestic aesthetics and how the artists themselves influence their children. <br /><br />Milana Braslavsky’s photographs consider the aesthetic of a home shared with children by visually connecting the pattern and texture of children’s toys to the form of nesting cookware. Nikki Brugnoli covers windows in the gallery with imagery and text related to her current home in which her workspace has no door, and her bedroom, a redesigned office space, has a glass door. By blocking view from the outside world, the work creates privacy in the gallery, which Brugnoli aims to maintain in her home. Edgar Endress responds to his son’s use of toys as a way to claim territory, but instead of claiming a space for himself as an individual by blocking others from areas of the gallery, he rethinks his son’s impulse by placing toys on the ceiling. Billy Frieble hijacked electronic children’s toys and reprogrammed them to mimic the movements of his infant son in an interactive sculpture that responds to the movement and body heat of gallery visitors. The artist’s observations of a developing child are translated into a piece that allows the viewer to consider growth, development and the presence of electronics in the early stages of life. <br /><br />Roxana Alger Geffen’s installation piece incorporates a window in the gallery and uses a combination of traditional mediums and household materials to consider how children invade mental space. Erin Raedeke’s still life paintings are constructed scenes using a combination of products and brands that represent both adult life as well as childhood. The paintings represent mark-making associated with childhood, crayon marks, alongside the mark making of adults, cursive handwriting, representing a blend of life’s stages in one visual space. Megan Wynne’s photograph, Home Birth, captures a moment familiar to most living with toddlers. The scale and detail of the photograph confronts the viewer with an intimate setting in the public space of the gallery, foregrounding the blurring distinctions of self and other that take place when raising children. Fabiola Alvarez Yursicin’s piece uses glow in the dark material as a way to consider how children absorb, alter and then reflect a version of the attitudes and habits of their parents.
Artists
<a href="http://milanabraslavsky.com/home.html" target="_blank">Milana Braslavsky</a>
Nikki Brugnoli
<a href="http://eendress.com/" target="_blank">Edgar Endress</a>
<a href="http://www.billyfriebele.com/" target="_blank">Billy Friebele</a>
<a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/117" target="_blank">Roxana Alger Geffen</a>
<a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/45" target="_blank">Erin Raedeke</a>
<a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/2" target="_blank">Megan Wynne</a>
<a href="http://www.fabiola.com.mx/" target="_blank">Fabiola Alvarez Yursicin</a>
Duration
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February 29 - March 31, 2016
Topic
domestic space
parenthood
toys
child development
mental space
boundaries
personal space
physical boundaries
electronics and children
influencing children
household objects
mess
stuff
domestic objects
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Domestic Territories
boundaries
child development
domestic objects
Domestic Territories
emotional space
Fairfax
influencing children
mess
Olly Olly
personal space
physical space
stuff
toys
Virginia