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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
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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://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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Echoes of Silence
Description
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film still
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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
<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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Exhibition Archive
Event
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Exhibition Website
<a href="https://www.whakatanemuseum.org.nz/exhibitions-and-events/mother" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.whakatanemuseum.org.nz/exhibitions-and-events/mother</a>
Curator
Sarah Hudson
Gallery
Te Kōputu - Whakatāne Library and Exhibition Centre
Curatorial Statement
M/other is an exhibition on contemporary artists from around New Zealand creating work about motherhood, mothering and maternal roles. Artist contributions from: Erena Baker, Leala Faleseuga, Rhonda Halliday, Turumeke Harrington, Claire Harris, Tash Helasdottir-Cole, Zoe Thompson-Moore, Jasmine Togo-Brisby, Kararaina Toi, Justine Walker
Location
The location of the interview
Whakatāne
New Zealand
Artists
Erena Baker
Leala Faleseuga
Rhonda Halliday
Turumeke Harrington
Claire Harris
Tash Helasdottir-Cole
Zoe Thompson-Moore
Jasmine Togo-Brisby
Kararaina Toi
Justine Walker
Topic
motherhood
mothering
maternal roles
artist mother
artist/mother,
artistic labor
artists with children
autonomy
binary tensions
birthday parties
bleeding
breast milk
breast pump
care labor
body
birth
contemporary art
conceptual art
IVF, mental health, miscarriage, maternal, needlework, postpartum, personal, women artists, women representation,
domestic families
feminism
handwork traditions
indigenous motherhood
infertility
intergenerational
IVF
mental health
miscarriage
maternal
needlework
postpartum
personal
women artists
women representation
Duration
Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.)
April 20 - August 17, 2019
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M/other
Contributor
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Sarah Hudson
artist mother
artist/mother
artistic labor
artists with children
autonomy
binary tensions
birth
birthday parties
bleeding
body
breast milk
breast pump
care labor
conceptual art
contemporary art
domestic
families
feminism
handwork traditions
Indigenous motherhood
infertility
intergenerational
IVF
maternal
maternal roles
mental health
miscarriage
motherhood
mothering
needlework
New Zealand
personal
postpartum
Whakatāne
women artists
women representation
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Artist Parent Organization Database
Service
An organization supporting artist parents.
Location
The location of the interview
Salem, Oregon
Grand Rapids, Michigan
Topic
reproduction
family
sex
gender
inclusive
zines
crowdsourcing
advocacy
paid family leave
care
caregiving
community
pregnancy
abortion
miscarriage
fetal loss
infertility
birth
gestation
identity
fashion
non-binary
LGBTQIA+
activism
performative action
library
collaboration
equity
policy
education
art
feminism
motherhood
fatherhood
parenthood
workshop
consent
About
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We (Cayla Skillin-Brauchle and Danielle C. Wyckoff) have come together to birth </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Reproductive Media</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, a project that focuses on all things family, gender, sex, and reproduction. Iterations of Reproductive Media have included a Mobile Zine Library and performative actions and workshops in which we facilitate discussions on these themes. The Reproductive Media Zine Library’s collection includes dozens of contributors who have produced zines related to these topics, ranging from personal experiences to statistics and facts. Our curatorial vision for this library is inclusive: we encourage individuals to share diverse information, experiences, and interpretations. This collection is an ongoing and ever-growing library.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Part of Reproductive Media’s larger mission is to provide educational and advocacy materials and support. Current resources we have produced as free booklets include ways to advocate for family-friendly* workplaces, suggestions for creating more inclusive educational settings, and other tools to advocate for legislative change such as ones that would support families for medical leave. (*We recognize an inclusive definition of family and remember that people receive love and support from partners, elders, children, siblings, lovers, pets, friends, and more.) </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Reproductive Media stems from our shared investment in discussion and because our individual artistic practices utilize conversation and crowdsourcing as a tactic to research and create projects. Wyckoff’s project, “Please Tell Me a Story About Love,” has traveled around the world asking folks to do just that. The project’s open-ended structure situates the artist as listener, hearing and recording stories about all forms of love. Skillin-Brauchle’s “Data Collection” performances seek to create local data sets by interviewing community members in public places. While disparate in their approaches, these projects act as non-judgemental agents, recorders of contemporary experience. Our projects focus on the ‘local,’ whether that be a site or a community, and both projects collect responses that fuel our individual artwork in other material forms.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We believe that critical discussions require space. Reproductive Media creates such a space, one that is a public yet private forum, to talk about all things family, sex, gender, and reproduction: the choice to parent or not; the experiences of non-binary lives; governmental policy that is restrictive and policy that is protective; the challenges and rewards of parenting; experiences of becoming a parent through adoption, foster care, birth, or other paths; LBGQTIA+ rights; infertility and the emotional, physical and financial implications; miscarriage and fetal loss; birth control; abortion; models of prenatal care and giving birth (medical model and midwifery model); reproductive rights; reproductive privilege based on identity and socio-economics; sex; babies; gender; consent.</span></p>
Organization Website
reproductive.media@gmail.com
Organzation Director
Cayla Skillin-Brauchle
Danielle C. Wyckoff
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Reproductive Media
abortion
activism
advocacy
art
birth
Care
caregiving
collaboration
community
consent
crowdsourcing
education
equity
family
fashion
fatherhood
feminism
fetal loss
gender
gestation
identity
inclusive
infertitlity
LGBTQIA+
library
miscarriage
motherhood
non-binary
paid family leave
parenthood
performative action
policy
pregnancy
reproduction
sex
workshop
zines
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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
Exhibitions in the Index that an artist has participated in. The two entries will be linked.
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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386df724b78bc964fe6e34b0887c557c
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Website
The Artist's website
<a href="http://www.mequittaahuja.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><b>http://www.mequittaahuja.com</b></a>
Medium
painting
drawing
Location
The location of the interview
Weston
Connecticut
Topic
pregnancy
IVF
miscarriage
sleep
death/birth
grandmother
maternal lineage
love
fertility
family
the body
mother and child
self-portraiture
home
domesticity
grief
sonograms
art history
Exhibitions
Exhibitions in the Index that an artist has participated in. The two entries will be linked.
Riffs and Relations: African American Artists and the European Modernist Tradition, Curated by Adrienne L. Childs
The Phillips Collection, Washington DC
February 29 - May, 24, 2020
Community
Flint Institute of Art, Flint, MI
January 26 - April 19, 2020
Intricatcies: Fragment and Meaning
August 8 - September 14, 2019
Aicon Gallery
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Title
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Mequitta Ahuja
art history.
death/birth
domesticity
drawing
family
fertility
grandmother
grief
home
IVF
love
maternal lineage
miscarriage
mother and child
painting
pregnancy
self-portraiture
sleep
sonograms
the body
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a3a6e702e1444d6241719a95ae8ef5e4
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Website
The Artist's website
Instagram <a href="https://www.instagram.com/chloemarsden.nz/?hl=en" target="_blank" rel="noopener">@chloemarsden.nz</a>
Topic
Past work has explored female reproduction and her personal experience of infertility, miscarriages and IVF treatment. My current work is a response to my identity transformation of becoming a mother.
infertility
miscarriages
IVF
identity transformation
mother
Medium
I am a practice based visual artist. I work across mediums; drawing, painting, collage and photography- to find the perfect translation for each project.
drawing
painting
collage
photography
Artist Statement
My journey to become a mother started many years before I gave birth to my son. Years of fertility problems gave me a lot of time to reflect upon the implications both physically and emotionally, of becoming a mother. However, nothing would prepare me for the confusing mix of emotions I felt when my son finally arrived. I constantly felt split, in two minds about everything. The strong urge to protect accompanied by fear of the tremendous responsibility. I was confused by the power and powerlessness of my new role. I was no longer just my-self any more. I experienced deep love but also craved physical space. Memories of my own childhood, a severe lack of sleep and unrealistic expectations distorted my sense of reality. My current work focuses on my own identity transformation of becoming a mother and the often conflicting, all-consuming feelings experienced in motherhood. These contradictory emotions are described as maternal ambivalence. I believe a mother needs to know herself, to own up to the diverse, conflicting, overwhelming feelings brought up by motherhood. Whether she stays at home, goes out to work, is partnered or single. A mother who can face her own inner turmoil can in turn make sense of her child. If a mother can be herself with a child, and honestly express joy, anger, love, contentment - a full range of emotions - that will help the child to know themselves. By fully recognizing this early experience mothers -to- be could be made more aware they are entering a confusing and disorienting time. They could be better emotionally equipped to ride the experience of maternal ambivalence.
Location
The location of the interview
Wellington
New Zealand
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Chloё Marsden
Title
A name given to the resource
Chloё Marsden
collage
drawing
infertility
IVF
miscarriage
mother
painting
photography
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Artist Parent Index
Person
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Website
The Artist's website
<a href="http://www.rcoutureart.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.rcoutureart.com</a>
Topic
motherhood
postpartum depression
miscarriage
Medium
photography
sculpture
installation
video
Artist Statement
Influenced by the personal and the political, I explore a wide range of themes within my work. I have developed a diverse practice that allows my ideas to dictate media, form, and process. The project SUBROSA (Miscarriage) explores the confusion, sadness, conflicting emotions, and the process of moving forward after miscarriage. Sub rosa is the Latin term for "under the rose," which means "in secret.” For many, miscarriage is a secret and solitary experience. This may seem odd given one in four pregnancies result in miscarriage, approximately 750,000 to 1,000,000 every year in the United States. However, scores of women or families miscarry alone due to the “12-week rule.” Medically, miscarriage is treated as a “routine pregnancy complication.” Your doctor or midwife explain options. You receive a booklet with pictures and explanations designed to inform a woman/couple of the why’s and what-happens-next. People are uncomfortable talking about pregnancy loss, so they don’t. How do you mourn someone who never came into being? There are no rituals for miscarriage, thus no cultural steps or process designed to aid in mourning. You try to imagine a new future, a new what-happens-next. And in time, you do, though it is difficult.
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Renee Couture
Title
A name given to the resource
Renee Couture
installation
miscarriage
motherhood
photography
postpartum depression
sculpture
video