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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.lexmarie.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.lexmarie.com</a>
Medium
acrylic
acrylic on canvas
Location
The location of the interview
Maryland
USA
Artist Statement
As a contemporary artist, I create based on visuals concepts of the imagination and real life. Including abstract techniques in my portraits and other pieces, allows room for the audience to connect to each body of work and identify themselves somewhere in the storyline. Uniquely I chose to opt out of outlining as done in my previous works, and focused on using bold color choices. My art represents my story, but I know it’s a story many know well. <br /><br />In my Mother and Son series, I hope to reflect the honesty and beauty of motherhood, the ugly too. It’s far from perfect for any parent. No matter what walk of life you come from, this series is personal, it’s transgenerational, it’s ours. Mother and Son is a reminder that I’m not alone in this everchanging journey and makes light of precious fleeting moments along the way.
Topic
parenting
art
motherhood
artist/mother
artists with children
breastfeeding
son
children
everyday
everyday life
single mother
single mothers
women artists
Exhibitions
Exhibitions in the Index that an artist has participated in. The two entries will be linked.
Artist Mother Studio x Project for Empty Space
Publications
A catalog or monograph published by the artist
Maternal Journal #2
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Title
A name given to the resource
Lex Marie
acrylic
acrylic on canvas
art
artist/mother
artists with children
breastfeeding
children
everyday
everyday life
Maryland
motherhood
parenting
single mother
single mothers
son
USA
women artists
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Title
A name given to the resource
Artist Parent Index
Person
An individual.
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
Dublin Core
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Title
A name given to the resource
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