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Title
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Artist Parent Index
Person
An individual.
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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Artist Parent Index
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Website
The Artist's website
<a href="http://www.diabassett.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.diabassett.com</a>
Medium
fiber
found objects
performance
painting
Location
The location of the interview
San Diego
California
USA
Topic
parenting
caretaking
breastfeeding
dyad relationship
microbiomes
touch
nurturing
napping
sleep
babyhood
toddlerhood
pregnancy
postpartum
anxiety
hapiness
physiology
nature
biology
Artist Statement
<span> I use distorted and erratic renditions of drawing and fiber techniques such as crocheting, weaving, and wrapping to build sculptural installations varying in size. My process begins when I encounter fabrics that are sourced from family and friends. The tactile experience of touching the fabrics can lead to an intimate, thoughtful meditation when I ponder the history of a garment. Who wore or used this? Where were they going or what were they doing when they used it? I may cut the fabric into long continuous thread, draw onto it, or sew it into a wearable sculpture. Dense forms and linear elements take shape as I let the qualities of the materials guide me. The improvisational aspect of my practice allows unpredictability to prosper.</span><br /><br /><span>Inspired by my own experience of entering motherhood, I want to show the power of the mother’s body and how she influences the infant physically as well as emotionally, intellectually, and spiritually. Sometimes my work takes shape as figurative drawings of the nursing relationship I have with my daughter. I incorporate repetitive text into the drawings that speak to the ever-changing mental space of becoming a mother—the anxiety and worry, the joy and gratitude. Other times my work becomes sculptural, utilizing the curvealinear forms found in nature and women’s bodies. Looking at nature’s processes of decay, entropy, rupture, and unraveling, I find an ever-increasing affinity to my body. Becoming a mother has begun to transform the art I make as I see the kinship to nature more clearly. I want viewers to reconnect with their own vulnerability as well as their strength, as motherhood has required I do so in a more profound way. Within this state of vulnerability and power, I believe we can access the sensitivity that will facilitate our collective empathy.</span>
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Title
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Dia Bassett
anxiety
babyhood
biology
breastfeeding
caretaking
dyad relationship
fiber
found objects
happiness
microbiomes
napping
nature
nurturing
painting
parenting
performance
physiology
postpartum
pregnancy
sleep
toddlerhood
touch
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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://carriescanga.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">http://carriescanga.com/</a>
Topic
postpartum maternal subjectivity
embodied parenting
attachment
sleep
love
caregiving
postpartum
Medium
installation
printmaking
Artist Statement
Carrie Scanga is a multi-disciplinary artist whose installations and works on paper reflect on personal mythologies, examine nostalgias for place and identity, and engage theories from ecology, architecture and design. Scanga attended Bryn Mawr College as an undergraduate and earned an MFA in Printmaking from University of Washington. She has held solo exhibitions in Berlin, Kansas City, Houston, St. Louis, and Philadelphia among other locales. Her work has been included in group exhibitions in commercial galleries, artist-run spaces, and museums, including the Portland Museum of Art, the Kingston Museum of Contemporary Art, PLUG Projects, Islip Art Museum, and Tiger Strikes Asteroid. Fellowship awards from the Pollock Krasner Foundation, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, the New York Foundation for the Arts, The MacDowell Colony, Sculpture Space, Blue Mountain Center, and Fundación Valparaíso have supported the development of her work. Currently based in Maine, she is an Associate Professor at Bowdoin College where she also directs the Marvin Bileck Printmaking Project visiting artist program.
Location
The location of the interview
Portland
Maine
USA
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Carrie Scanga
Title
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Carrie Scanga
attachment
care taking
caregivers
caregiving
installation
installation art
love
Maine
Portland
postpartum maternal subjectivity
sleep
USA
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<a href="http://selinatrepp.info/section/384377-nap-animation.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">http://selinatrepp.info/section/384377-nap-animation.html</a>
Medium
mixed media
animation
installation
performance
Location
The location of the interview
Chicago
Illinois
Artist Statement
<span>Rather than documenting or representing the real world, I reflect on it by moving sideways from it, constructing a parallel reality, a reality that mixes the familiar with the uncanny, real and unreal at once. The making of my work is based on experimental situations. My process is chance based. I write instructions, which lead to scenarios, open-ended structures, for performances that result in artworks. While past works have featured others performing for me, my new work puts me into the frame. Pointing the lens on myself is decidedly uncomfortable for me; I feel safer behind the camera. The decision to cast myself both as subject and object comes out of the realization that I need to work with the discomfort and tension that this action creates in me. If I am embarrassed by my work, then it is worth pursuing.</span>
Topic
napping
motherhood
infants and sleep
sleep
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/452">http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/452</a>Extended Self: Transformations and Connections
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Selina Trepp
animation
Chicago
conceptual art
Illinois
infants and sleep
installation
mixed media
motherhood
napping
performance
sleep