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Title
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Artist Parent Index
Person
An individual.
Website
The Artist's website
<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
Dublin Core
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Title
A name given to the resource
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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Title
A name given to the resource
Artist Parent Index
Person
An individual.
Website
The Artist's website
<a href="http://www.joettamaue.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.joettamaue.com</a>
Topic
childrearing
mess of parenthood
repetition
mess
repetition of parenthood
Medium
textiles
drawing
photography
Artist Statement
As an artist I have utilized my daily life as muse; my work inevitably reflects this. After spending years on a body of work, I felt as if I had nowhere left to go. I found myself alone in my studio, in a new city, with a young child, a changing relationship with my parents as they age and I mature, and a vastly different partner as he met a new stage in his life. I turned my eyes away from those relationships that had so long inspired me, toward the objects that surrounded me. The objects were real, solid, reliable, and less malleable, less fleeting, tangible markers of this moment in time. The pile of trucks my son left on the floor was less ephemeral then the fact that he was changing at an “unfathomable speed.” The dirty blanket on the couch was reliably there while my partner was often on his own journey. The beauty of the sunlight on the plants, that I never seemed to have time to water, made me remember why I had plants in the first place. The objects became what located me in this state of transition.
I began looking at the objects I could pick up, touch and feel for grounding and using them as my subject. I began to explore the psychological landscape of the domestic space through various media. Zooming in, slowing down, creating labor in the small seemingly insignificant moments is an attempt to bring awareness and attention to the glimpses, touches, and objects that create our daily experience. Through my labor intensive drawing and the witness of my camera I invite the viewer to slow down, look around and notice their own landscape… a landscape of their domestic world, their emotional state, and their mind.
My graphite drawings allow me to focus on the importance of these small objects or moments, amplifying their texture, tones and detail, abstracting their meaning and role while simultaneously elevating them. Through this work I am able to replicate my beloved process of the darkroom via my technique of drawing with projection & enlargement, mirroring the process of silver halide printing and the use of a grain focuser, the tool which brings a negative to clarity, and using technique to develop the tonal variations important to the image. The photographs capture the document of this moment in time, in the home, my life and my psychological experience. The photographs with their rich saturated colors make the subject vibrant and seductive while the drawings remain in black and white concentrating on the quiet completive experience being investigated via the work
The images vary from small to large scale and play with ideas of hierarchy through this variation in size and the installation. The work varies from being formally framed and hung while others would remain in a place of process, i.e. hung low/ high on the wall, with and without frame, leaning on the floor, in suspension. This formal exploration is meant to allude to the hierarchies that exist in our mind about our domestic space and both its value and importance as well as its dismissal and ignorance of.
My intention is to create a conceptual presentation of an intimate subject. My goal is for the mediums to work together as one in formal groupings and visual relationships. Bringing living, breathing things together with the objects that surround me all of which I touch and care for to feel more alive and present in this moment.
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Contributor
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Joetta Maue
Title
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Joetta Maue
caretaking
childrearing
drawing
mess
photography
repetition
textiles
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Title
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Artist Parent Index
Person
An individual.
Website
The Artist's website
<a href="http://www.roxanaalgergeffen.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://www.roxanaalgergeffen.com</a>
Medium
mixed media
painting
collage
installation
photography
Location
The location of the interview
Washington, DC
Artist Statement
<p> I’ve spent the last decade exploring the world of domestic life and family systems. Although I started as a painter, describing the chaotic and contradictory world of parenting seemed to require a multi-layered, eclectic approach, and I have expanded my practice to include collage, installation and photography. Recently, I’ve been drawn into the digital worlds my children inhabit so readily (in part because the subject of ‘screen’ causes so much debate and anxiety in the cultural discourse) and the imagery I’ve found there has been surprisingly inspiring and oddly familiar. One game had a pixelated, modular landscape—touched with moments of surprising, naturalistic beauty—that became an excellent metaphor for my domestic world. I use this imagery layered with realism, as well as a layering of techniques, to develop the idea of parenting and domestic life as a many-layered experience: funny, moving, and labor-intensive.</p>
Topic
domestic life
family systems
parenting
parenthood
realism
abstraction
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Title
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Roxana Alger Geffen
abstraction
collage
domestic
domestic life
family systems
installation
mess
mixed media
painting
parenthood
parenting
photography
realism
toys
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Exhibition Archive
Event
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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
Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.)
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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Title
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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