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Artist Parent Index
Person
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Website
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<a href="http://courtneykessel.com/home.html" target="_blank">http://courtneykessel.com/home.html</a>
Medium
performance art
sculpture
installation
video art
sound
Location
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Ohio
Artist Statement
My current work and research is focused on the possibility of what a feminist form may consist of beyond current feminist content, imagery, and histories. Through sculpture, performance, video, and sound, I perform a visibility that, in normative patriarchal society, is preferred to remain invisible. The question of feminist form transcends the product and is inclusive of my practice and methodology. In doing this, a slippage occurs where the separation of studio activity and domestic responsibility is blurred.
In the performance In Balance With, my six-year-old daughter, Chloe, and I sit at opposite ends of an empty sixteen-foot seesaw. During the thirty-minute performance, I add items that represent our lives such as toys, her books and sketchbook, my research books, food, laundry, tools, and pots and pans to her side of the seesaw. Constantly checking in with her well being, I continue until both sides have reached equilibrium. While hovering in a balanced state, I am continually counteracting her every move. Here we remain until she is ready to come down. In communication the entire time, the words we share are available to the audience but are not for the audience.
This piece is the confluence of many of my ideas. It relays and relies upon the non-privileged, unspoken language of the maternal, the process as opposed to the product, and the repositioned domestic dialog. When the performance ends, what remains is a laden seesaw complete with identifiable objects representing one’s life: a sculpture that tells a tale.
The non-hierarchical triad of feminism, language, and maternity forms the unique basis for my work. The French feminist Luce Irigaray describes woman “as waste, or excess, what is left of a mirror invested by the (masculine) ‘subject’ to reflect himself, to copy himself”1. I use language as a medium in my work to represent the gap in both “meaning” and “intention,” as well as the notion of “excess” as Irigaray connotes. How does the methodology I will use be sympathetic to feminist form? How will my decisions be based on this? Feminist form is non-hierarchical. It has options and choices; it is excess and multiplicitous, not singular. It will not be categorized, but create it’s own category. It is a process that is not based on product. It accumulates and is messy, but is not interested in making messes. It is an invitation, not a statement.
Topic
motherhood
daughter
feminism
language
domestic life
Exhibitions
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<a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/4" target="_blank">Complicated Labors</a>
<a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/19" target="_blank">Project AfterBirth</a>
<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/274" target="_blank">Labors</a>
<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/64" target="_blank">New Maternalisms - Chile</a>
<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/161" target="_blank">New Maternalisms - Redux</a>
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Title
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Courtney Kessel
daughter
domestic life
feminism
language
motherhood
Ohio
performance art
sculpture
sound
video art
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Location
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Youngstown
Ohio
USA
Artist Statement
<p><strong>Joy Christiansen Erb</strong><span> </span>is a contemporary photographer and artist whose creative research explores themes such as memory, identity, and storytelling. Her most recent body of work explores the subjects of motherhood and family. This body of work is an autobiographical journey examining the lives of her family and her domestic space. The images included in the series document both the struggles and triumphs of everyday life.</p>
<p>Her photography has gained recognition through regional and national exhibitions and lectures as well as a 2015 Ohio Individual Excellence Award from the Ohio Arts Council. Recent and upcoming solo exhibition venues include the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Center for the Emerging Visual Artists in Philadelphia, Peoria Arts Guild and the Galveston Arts Center. Recent group exhibitions include Newspace Center for Photography in Portland, OR, the Griffin Museum of Photography in Winchester, MA, Center for Photography at Woodstock and the Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland. Her artwork has also been highlighted in a variety of publications including two notable textbooks. A portfolio of her most recent work is housed at the Museum of Contemporary Photography as a part of the Midwest Photographers Project in Chicago, IL.</p>
<p>She currently resides in Youngstown, Ohio, where she is an Associate Professor of Photography at Youngstown State University. She received her B.F.A. from Miami University, Oxford, OH and her M.F.A. from Texas Woman’s University.</p>
Website
The Artist's website
<a href="http://www.joychristiansen.com/index.html">http://www.joychristiansen.com/index.html</a>
Medium
photography
Topic
mothering
memory
identity
storytelling
domestic space
autobiography
everyday life
medical care
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Joy Christiansen Erb
autobiography
domestic space
everyday life
identity
medical care
memory
mothering
Ohio
photography
storytelling
USA
Youngstown
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Website
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<a href="kaseyjonesart.com">kaseyjonesart.com</a>
Topic
motherhood
breastfeeding
paid leave
working mom
stay at home parent
Medium
interdisciplinary
Artist Statement
My creative pursuits are fueled by my need to connect with people. Through this human interaction, I become more connected to my immediate community and my global community. I use my artistic voice as a means for civic duty. My work instigates dialogue that forces my viewers to confront issues that are typically hard to talk about. I create both large-scale, participatory art projects as well as develop personal work that responds to pertinent social and environmental injustices that impact my life and the lives of others. As an interdisciplinary artist my approach is rooted in the exploration of material. By having an open-ended view of what materials I can use, my art making process is constantly being pushed by the varying limitations each material may have. My exploration of media has lead me to develop bodies of work in painting, photography, sculpture, living sculptures, audio, video, light and textiles. My current work focuses on the injustices I have faced through my experiences of being a woman and a mother in contemporary society. I have created bodies of work that examine topics such as breastfeeding, lack of paid maternity leave, menstruation, and motherhood.
Location
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Athens
Ohio
USA
Exhibitions
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<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/296">The Art of Breastfeeding: Modern Narratives of Motherhood</a>
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Kasey Jones
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Kasey Jones
Athens
breastfeeding
interdisciplinary
motherhood
Ohio
paid leave
stay at home parent
USA
working mom
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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
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Pearl Conard Gallery
Curator
Kate Shannon
Duration
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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