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Title
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Artist Parent Index
Person
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Website
The Artist's website
<a href="https://www.verastankovic.com" target="_blank">https://www.verastankovic.com/</a>
Medium
sculpture
installation
photography
collage
urban intervention
performance art
object
sculpture
photography
writing
interdisciplinary
Location
The location of the interview
Ljubljana
Slovenia
Europe
Artist Statement
<p class="p1">I am fascinated by transformation processes.</p>
<p class="p1">I observe transforming spaces, economy, environment, cities, work, cells, bodies, knowledge, history, countries, roles, education, technology, relationships, selves, languages.</p>
<p class="p1">Becoming and being a mother is for me all about transformation. My first solo exhibition in the Zepter Gallery in Belgrade, Serbia was called Metamorphosis<span class="s1"> . </span>The objects I made used banal everyday objects (plastic bags) and transformed them into an immense vagina or into umbilical cords falling from the ceiling. This story from 1999 was a intimate story of separating oneself from the primary family and a story about the everyday and the environment.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p class="p1">From 2006 to 2012 my partner and I went through a series of unsuccessful IVFs and several miscarriages. I did several sculptural works that documented this part of our lives - like the Womb exhibited in 2010 in Museum de Ceramica de l’Alcora, Spain. It was just about the pain, I guess.</p>
<p class="p1">In 2012, I was invited to make an urban intervention inside the Vesel Garden in Ljubljana, Slovenia. I was three months pregnant with my son and did not know what to expect about the occurring pregnancy. So I did an urban intervention with a participative performance and called this work Embryo garden. It was all about the thin line between life and death of the child to be, but also of the artistic child within myself.</p>
<p class="p2"><span class="s2">My experience as a parent has been both challenging and inspiring for me as an artist. I explored the relationship between the roles of artist and parent in my 2016 exhibition in the Glass Atrium of the City Hall of Ljubljana, called A Thank You Note To the Cleaning Lady. The work that lent its name to the exhibition questions the relation between reproductive, maintenance work and having greater purpose in life. As a whole, </span>the exhibition was born as a product of broken antagonism between being a parent and an artist and of cooperation between the two roles. The installation To Include Everything, Everything, Everything, Absolutely, Absolutely, Everything especially focused on that. And the work The Map is about the child experiencing and learning by himself, and the artist-mother just observing and taking notes. In this process, I sometimes feel as if steeling from him.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
Topic
play
daily life
work/life balance
parenting
domestic
artist/mother
fertility
infertility
vagina
parent/child collaboration
World War II
exploring
anger
cleaning
maintenence
everyday
powerlessness
ritual
grandmother's motherhood
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Title
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Vera Stankovic
anger
archive
artist/mother
calendar
cleaning
collage
daily life
domestic
everyday
fertility
grandmother
infertility
installation
maintenance
Maps
motherhood
parent/child collaboration
parenting
plastic
play
Poljanska
powerlessness
Pozega-Slavonia
pregnancy
readymade
ritual
sculpture
Serbia
Slovenia
toys
vagina
womb
work/life balance
World War II
writing
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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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Title
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Artist Parent Index
Person
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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
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Exhibition Website
<a href="http://www.ollyollyart.com/exhibitions" target="_blank">http://www.ollyollyart.com/exhibitions</a>
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<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
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Website
The Artist's website
<a href="http://www.erinraedeke.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://www.erinraedeke.com/</a>
Medium
painting
Topic
still life
domestic space
mess
children's toys
memory
writing
domestic objects
laundry
birthday parties
crayons
children's food
animal crackers
oreos
peeps
candy
Location
The location of the interview
Washington DC
Artist Statement
I am interested in the unwanted and dismissed. Objects are both stumbled upon and purposefully chosen. Thoughts, memories and past experiences are scavenged through in an effort to find meaning and uncover connections. My paintings document this search. The set-up allows me to object to preconceived ideas and assumptions; challenge an image or impression that is forced upon an object or relationship.
Everything has meaning. Seemingly random objects we encounter, no matter how unceremoniously, hold a flood of associations and truths buried in the sub conscience. The only way to tease them out is through sensitive observation and suspension of prejudice.
Exhibitions
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<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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Erin Raedeke
animal crackers
birthday parties
cake
candy corn
children's food
crayons
domestic life
domestic objects
laundry
memory
oreos
painting
party favors
peeps
still life
toys