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Exhibition Archive
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Exhibition Website
<a href="http://www.marciasantore.com/momma.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">http://www.marciasantore.com/momma.html</span></a>
Gallery
Silver Center for the Arts, Karl Drerup Gallery Exhibition Program, Plymouth State University
Location
The location of the interview
Plymouth
New Hampshire
USA
Curator
<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/477">Marcia Santore</a>
Curatorial Statement
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Artists who are mothers see the world in a distinct and complex way. “Mommy eyes” see close and far, beauty and danger, past and future. Mothers are attuned to the possibilities of known and unknown, joy experienced and lost, a future both exciting and frightening. The view of the mother-artist is a valuable perspective on the world that is often dismissed as mothers in our society are sentimentalized but not truly respected.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Motherhood is a profoundly feminist subject. It is because of the physical nature of preparing for, carrying, bearing, and raising children that women are, even today, frequently excluded from many types of roles (excluded by both men and other women). Women in both the business and art worlds are often told to downplay their role as mothers, so that those in power won’t have that excuse to doubt not only their abilities and intelligence, but their commitment and dedication. Since the beginning of the women’s movement, women who intended to be both artists and mothers were marginalized within the movement, finding the need to be feminists within feminism. Thirty years later, mother-artists are still facing this prejudice, especially within the art world itself. This is the background against which I began thinking of this exhibition. </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">MOMMA presents the work of four artist-mothers, each of whom addresses aspects of motherhood in her work. </span><b>Laura Morrison</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">’s sculptural yarn work responds to the generative properties of nature, while her delicate assemblages are ruminations about family and connections between people. In </span><b>Patricia Schappler</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">’s drawings and paintings, she creates closely observed life-size and more-than-life-size portraits of her children over time, individually and as a family. In her paintings, prints, and quilts, </span><b>Annette Mitchell</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> looks at motherhood from inside and outside, as a mother and grandmother, but also as a daughter. I (</span><b>Marcia Santore</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">) began this exhibition with paintings about the swirling, chaotic, and animal nature of motherhood, but that MOMMA sparked an entirely new group of work, The Minivan Series. </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">MOMMA is not a motherhood manifesto. It is not about advocating motherhood for all women or defining women as mothers first and anything else second. It is not about the “right” way to mother. And it is most definitely not intended to diminish women who don’t have children, whether by choice or not. It’s about showing something important about a group of people who make art based on the conditions of their lives—how being mothers affects the work we do as artists. We are who we are and where we are in large part because of our roles as mothers. How we see the world, what we notice, what we make art about, is strongly affected by our roles as mothers and provides a point of view that is often overlooked.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This year, the Women’s Caucus for Art national conference included a panel discussion on artists and motherhood. In conjunction with the MOMMA exhibition, the Silver Center for the Arts will screen </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Who Does She Think She Is?</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, a documentary about artist-mothers. It’s exciting to me to realize that these ideas about motherhood, making art, and marginalization that I’ve been considering for years are being thought about and talked about nationally at the same time that MOMMA is coming together.</span></p>
Artists
<a href="http://www.lauramorrisonart.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Laura Morrison</a>
<a href="https://www.annettemitchellart.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Annette Mitchell</a>
<a href="https://patriciaschappler.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Patricia Schappler</a>
<a href="http://www.marciasantore.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Marcia Santore</a>
Duration
Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.)
March 3 – April 11, 2014
Topic
motherhood
parenting
mothers
families
motherhood and creative practice
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MOMMA
and how that experience influences artists
families
motherhood
mothers
parenting
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Exhibition Archive
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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
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April 20 - August 17, 2019
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M/other
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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 Index
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Website
The Artist's website
<a href="http://www.pieshake.com/#!experimental-shorts/cx06" target="_blank">http://www.pieshake.com/#!experimental-shorts/cx06</a>
Medium
film
video art
Location
The location of the interview
Richmond
Virginia
Artist Statement
Since the mid-1990s, I have been making films about outsiders, misfits and everyday radicals, telling stories that occupy the intersection of intimate experience and public discourse. Several of these works are lyrical explorations of motherhood made with a hand-cranked 16mm film camera. These experimental shorts and looping projections mine the tension between the subjective, lived experience of women and mothers; our interior lives of fantasy and projection, and reality as refracted through our media-dense world.
Topic
motherhood
16mm film camera
maternal ambivalence
sex education
conception
gestation
pregnancy
families
homes
domestic life
Exhibitions
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<a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/19" target="_blank">Project AfterBirth</a>
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Sasha Waters Freyer
16mm film camera
conception
domestic life
families
film
gestation
homes
maternal ambivalence
pregnancy
Richmond
sex education
video art
Virginia
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Exhibition Archive
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Duration
Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.)
January 30 - March 12, 2016
Curator
Amber Berson
Juliana Driever
Artists
<a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/143">Dillon de Give</a>
Home Affairs
Jacqueline Hoàng Nguyễn
Leisure (Meredith Carruthers & Susannah Wesley)
Lise Haller Baggesen
LoVid
Shane Aslan Selzer
Gallery
EFA Project Space
Curatorial Statement
The Let Down Reflex is an exhibition that attempts to recognize the complexities of parenting in the art world, and asks if a better alternative for families can exist. Calling out a slippage in today’s feminist art world, the curators summon a group of artist-parents to contribute to a springboard for re-imagining an art world where “Mom” is not a demeaning characterization, where childcare is factored in for participating artists at art spaces, and where artists aren’t forced to choose between home and work because of a lack of parental leave. The “let down reflex,” a term referencing the involuntary reflex that causes nursing mothers to produce breast milk, takes on a double meaning in this exhibition, referring here to the reflexive tendency of letting down parents, and particularly mothers, within the flawed labor system of the art world.
Topic
fair wages
art world
parenthood
Exhibition Website
<a href="http://www.projectspace-efanyc.org/the-let-down-reflex/" target="_blank">http://www.projectspace-efanyc.org/the-let-down-reflex/</a>
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The Letdown Reflex
art world
breastfeeding
childcare
fair wages
families
let down reflex
New York
nursing mothers
parental leave