Tag: museums
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Lalla Essaydi
Lalla Essadyi is a Moroccan photographer and artist known for her feminist portraits. Essaydi grew up in Morocco, but she currently lives in the United States. Here, she explores her complex identities. Why “identities”? To Essaydi, it’s important to think of identity as a state of being many things at once. Refusing to restrict yourself…
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Bisa Butler
Bisa Butler is an African American fiber artist. Butler is known for her revolutionary approach to quilting, transforming a formerly ‘craft’ medium to the realm of ‘fine art’. Butler’s work stems from quilting traditions of African American communities. This tradition has a long and difficult origin; many African American women would quilt to supplement the…
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Pipilotti Rist
Pipilotti Rist (born Elisabeth Charlotte Rist) is a Swiss video/audio installation artist. Spanning themes of eco-feminism, pop culture, and death, Pipilotti Rist’s work in installation and video art is inspired by the lives of women. To Rist, women are beautiful, colorful beings trying to balance the pressures of society with their individual personalities. Her work…
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Marina Abramović
Marina Abramović is a Serbian performance artist, known as a pioneer of endurance-based body art. With her body as a canvas, Abramović draws her audience into a realm of subversion. But what is subversion? To Abramović, subversion is an investigation into our limitations as human beings. Subversion asks us to reconsider everything around us: What are…
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Nam June Paik
Nam June Paik (1932-2006) was a South Korean artist often considered to be the founder of video art. He is also the first to coin the term “electronic superhighway” to describe the World Wide Web! An esteemed member of the avant-garde Fluxus movement, Paik was inspired by composers of his age, such as John Cage,…
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