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Website
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<a href="http://www.kellymarshallfineart.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.kellymarshallfineart.com</a>
Topic
domesticity
birth injury
invisible labor
intimacy
bodies
Medium
performance
sculpture
Artist Statement
As a visual artist, I have long been interested in using abstract images and multimedia applications to investigate gendered and sexualized experiences. I am confronting my profound anger about the treatment of women in both historical and contemporary social contexts through violence, marginalization, discrimination, and bias. That anger is matched by my interest in the aesthetic experience of beauty and exploring forms that inspire that experience. Throughout my art practice, I am gathering fabric and shaping it over my body, to explore a relationship between women’s labor, the domestic space, and my personal experience of it. I am also examining how these roles impact privacy, intimacy, and cultural dictations of motherhood. With the curve of my body on the hard concrete and a tablecloth as my only cover, I contemplate the weight of isolation as in contrast to privacy. These textiles are charged with ontologies that circulate around the history of adornments and their role in a marketplace that thrives because of their investment in images of women as sexual objects, and their dependence on the labor of bodies that have been historically disenfranchised because of their class, race, and gender.
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Kelly Marshall
Title
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Kelly Marshall
birth injury
Bodies
domesticity
intimacy
invisible labor
performance
sculpture
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Website
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<a href="http://.www.idbohemia.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">idbohemia.com</a>
<a href="http://www.artworkarchive.com/profile/christina-ignacio-deines?general_filter=2" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.artworkarchive.com/profile/christina-ignacio-deines?general_filter=2</a>
Topic
sexuality
maternal mental health
postpartum despression and recovery
trauma
PTSD
birth
desire
sexual power dynamics
identity
motherhood
parenting
intimacy
family legacy
Medium
Site specific installation
sculpture and assemblage
painting
photography
drawing
music and sound
experience design
Artist Statement
Why do we connect? What are the foundations on which connection is built? How do we nurture deep connection?
I have been exploring the phenomena and ecology of connection and belonging for more than a decade. My work examines our needs and motivations, the formative effect of culture and life history on identity, and the powerful influence that objects, experiences, and environment have on our well-being and relationships. In practice, I weave connection into the artistic process by bridging ideas and disciplines— applying 2D visual principles in 3D space, for example, and applying fine art, decorative and craft techniques. Scratch-built components may be combined with current, mass-produced materials, particularly in the installations, to ground a work in the present even when its inspiration is found in the past.
In my body of work, I have looked at the ways connection and belonging are expressed in romantic relationships relative to a single identity (1), and in national identity relative to the life cycle of a species (2). I have recast creative partners as a sacred ideal (3), and recreated sites of profound physical and spiritual union (4). I have challenged sexual and political power dynamics among social groups (5), and depicted temptation and sisterhood in sapphic narrative poetry (6), I have crossed cultures to create a fresh aesthetic language for modern marital relationships, fusing French and Inuit fairy and folk tales with arch-rib barns and Gothic churches (7), and the decorative arts of nomadic peoples from Mongolia to the Mojave (8). I have related the emotional experience of love to physical and visual sensations (9). I have translated the process of rehabilitation into a journey of connections between individuals, systems and the broader community (10). I have presented shelter and security as the basis for healthy intimate and parental relationships (11). Recently, I remodelled a mass-produced dollhouse into a one-of-a-kind heirloom, to describe how legacy and maternal identity connects generations of family (12).
While rooted in an ongoing practice of communicating connection and belonging in art by building immersive, experiential installations, my recent work is a deeply engaging progression into more visceral and nuanced emotional territory, and more daring and experimental explorations of materials, scale and collaboration. My work often seeks to translate our darker human struggles into objects and environments of protection, joy, and beauty. Recent shifts in our cultural and political climate, coupled with research and conversations I’ve had with healthcare professionals, mental health professionals, academics, and my own peer group of women, mothers and families, has convinced me that motherhood and maternal identity are important artistic subjects worth exploring, and that my approach is unique and substantive. In an increasingly divided and isolating culture, it is not simply relevant to lay bare the struggle of connection and belonging. It is in fact vital.
1 An Open Love Letter: There is no Japanese word for Identity, 2005; 2 Salmon Run - Comox, 2007; 3 The Writer and His Muse, 2006; 4 Some Like It Hot Pink, 2009 and Love Without Borders, 2011; 5 Queens (After John Singer Sargent), 2009; 6 Forbidden Feast (After Christina Rossetti), 2015; 7 Beauty & The Beast, 2010; 8 East x Southwest, 2014; 9 Sea of Light, 2011; 10 Explore The Map of Courage - Sculpture Series, 2016; 11 Light The Way Home, 2017; 12 Riven’s Dream Lodge, 2018
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Title
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Christina Ignacio-Deines
birth
desire
drawing
experience design
family legacy
identity
intimacy
maternal mental health
motherhood
music and sound
painting
parenting
photography
postpartum depression and recovery
PTSD
sculpture and assemblage
sexual power dynamics
sexuality
Site specific installation
trauma
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Website
The Artist's website
<a href="http://www.mariavelascostudio.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.mariavelascostudio.com</a>
Topic
multiple authorship
single mother
artist-parent-academic
intimacy
Medium
installation art
participatory art
social practice
collaboration
Artist Statement
My work exists at the intersection of art and social practice, where dialogue, process, and participation lead to new insights. I create site-specific installations, urban interventions, and participatory projects to investigate spaces, architecture; history; and, foremost, the human interactions intersecting them. My artistic practice is an opportunity to connect with a community, examine cultural conditions, and question assumptions about what we take for granted. Specifically, I deal with issues of displacement, migration, gender identity, vulnerability, and the structures of authority that govern our lives. To challenge the idea of ‘single authorship,’ I create open-ended works that invite viewers to become participants and even co-creators of the artistic experience. Ultimately, I see my practice as both social sculpture and an architecture of intimacy, conflating the private and the public, the inner and outer world; the work always in progress, seeking the necessary complicity with viewers. My creative interests have been amplified by becoming a mother. However it has been challenging to figure professional logistics, since parenting is rendered invisible - in the arts, in academia and the culture at large. "Intertwined Worlds" is a sketchbook collaboration with my ten-year-old son, Alex, who loves to draw and is a young artist. Through this exploration, I find a poignant unfolding of our worlds, a sort of peeking in each other's minds.
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F. María Velasco
Title
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F. María Velasco
artist-parent-academic
collaboration
installation art
intimacy
multiple authorship
participatory art
single mother
social practice
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<p class="p1"><a href="http://www.jessdobkin.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">jessdobkin.com</a></p>
Medium
performance
social practice
Location
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Toronto
Canada
Artist Statement
<p class="p1">I’ve been a working artist, curator, community activist and teacher for more than 25 years, creating and producing intimate solo performances, large-scale public happenings, socially engaged interventions and performance art workshops and lectures. My practice extends across black boxes and white cubes, art fairs and subway stations, international festivals, and single bathroom stalls. I’ve operated an artist-run newsstand in a vacant subway station kiosk, a soup kitchen for artists, a breast milk tasting bar, and a performance festival hub for kids. I’m forever inspired by the rebel queers, renegade witches, and other dyke moms I run with, and bound to many brilliant artists, activists, spell-casters and healers. <span class="s1">For many years I made performances that drew from my own experiences of trauma and transformation, intimacy and motherhood. More recently, I’ve experienced a shift in my practice, where my attention has turned to wider theoretical questions about the nature of performance itself to </span>ask questions about when, where, how we perform - in theatres and galleries, on social media, and in our everyday lives.</p>
Topic
abjection
activism
adulthood
aging
archive
art
art and research
artist mother
art making
artist parent
artist/mother
artistic labor
artists with children
autobiography
binary tensions
bioethics
biology
birth
birth and death
birth trauma
bleeding
body
body exploration
body transformation
breast milk
breast pump
breastfeeding
breastmilk
care
censorship
childhood
creative practice
creative strategies
cultural reproducers
culture
curating
curation
curator
curatorial practice
documentation
domestic labor
domestic life
domestic space
domesticity
early motherhood
early parenthood
empathy
ethics
exhaustion
family
family accessible event
family portrait
feminism
feminist
feminist art
feminist art theory
gender
gender roles
gender stereotypes
human body
humor
identity
interdisciplinary
intimacy
invisible labor
lactation
love
materiality
maternal
maternal body
maternal bodies
maternal care
maternal desire
maternal experience
memory
menstruation
mess
milk
mother
mother artist identity
mother as artist
mother body
mother/artist identity
mother/child relationship
motherhood and political context
motherhood
motherhood and art
motherhood and art practice
motherhood and creative practice
motherhood and social context
motherhood and studio practice
motherhood as art practice
mothering
mothers
nursing
nursing mothers
objectification
parent
parent artists
parent/child relationship
parenthood
parenting
parents
patriarchy
performativity
personal experience
play
subjectivity
power
public breastfeeding
public space
pumping
queer
queer identity
queer parenting
representation
representations of motherhood
research and art
resistance
ritual
rituals
sexuality
single mothers
single mother
social justice
social practice
stories
storytelling
theory
time
transformation
trauma
vagina
visual culture
woman
women
women and gender studies
women artists
women representation
women's health
women's identity
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The Lactation Station Breast Milk Bar 2006, 2012, 2016
Imagined Family Portraits 2007 - ongoing
Free Childcare Provided 2013
Fee for Service 2006
Being Green 2009
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Title
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Jess Dobkin
abjection
activism
adulthood
ageing
archive
art
art and research
art making
artist mother
artist parent
artist-parents
artist/mother
artistic labor
artists with children
autobiography
binary tensions
bioethics
biology
birth
birth and death
birth trauma
bleeding
body
body exploration
body transformation
breast milk
breast pump
breastfeeding
breastmilk
Care
censorship
childhood
creative practice
creative strategies
cultural reproducers
culture
curating
curation
curator
curatorial practice
documentation
domestic labor
domestic life
domestic space
domesticity
early motherhood
early parenthood
empathy
ethics
exhaustion
family
family accessible event
family portrait
feminism
feminist
feminist art
feminist art theory
gender
gender roles
gender stereotypes
human body
humor
identity
interdisciplinary
intimacy
invisible labor
lactation
love
materiality
maternal
maternal bodies
maternal body
maternal care
maternal desire
maternal experience
memory
menstruation
mess
milk
mother
mother artist
mother artist identity
mother artists
mother as artist
mother body
mother/artist identity
mother/child relationship
motherhood
motherhood and art
motherhood and art practice
motherhood and creative practice
motherhood and political context
motherhood and social context
motherhood and studio practice
motherhood as art practice
mothering
mothers
nursing
nursing mothers
objectification
parent
parent artists
parent/child relationship
parenthood
parenting
parents
patriarchy
performativity
personal experience
play
power
public breastfeeding
public space
pumping
queer
queer identity
queer parenting
representation
representations of motherhood
research and art
resistance
ritual
rituals
sexuality
single mother
single mothers
social justice
social practice
Stories
storytelling
subjectivity
theory
time
transformation
trauma
vagina
visual culture
woman
women
women and gender studies
women artists
women representation
women’s health
women’s identity
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<a href="madelinedonahue.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">madelinedonahue.com</a>
Topic
mother child relationship
intimacy
nursing
attachment parenting
breastfeeding
Medium
oil on canvas
Artist Statement
Madeline Donahue’s paintings explore the overwhelming absurdity and intimacy of caring for another person. She focuses on the surreal reality and physicality of the mother and child relationship. In each work, the mother attempts to perform basic aspects of a day as the child clings to hair and body parts, nonchalant, comfortably playing on her body. She uses a bold simplified palette, especially pinks and blues, colors that are cool on the spectrum but conjure warmth and life in and around the body.
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Madeline Donahue
Title
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Madeline Donahue
attachment parenting
intimacy
mother child relationships
nursing
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<div style="text-align:left;"><a href="http://www.luheintz.com/" target="_blank">http://www.luheintz.com/</a></div>
Medium
conceptual art
textiles
metalsmithing
video
sound
sculpture
installation
performance
paper works
writing
Location
The location of the interview
Providence
Rhode Island
Artist Statement
My work is engaged in discourses around feminism, labor and technological change. Embedded in the works are confluences of technique and meaning, craft and digital media, and everyday materials with fine art forms. The work is situated at the nexus of life and art, and walks a boundary between work and love. Labor and love act broadly as dual domains which sustain my interest in the ways a subject acts and is acted upon by intersecting social, economic, intimate, emotional and political forces. While some works describe the ways in which labor and love converge in personal and economic experience, others begin to search for meanings of love that may deviate from material, economic conditions to transform the terms of our intimate and collective relationships.
Topic
labor
love
power
gender
consumerism
intimacy
communication
silence
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Lu Heintz
communication
conceptual art
consumerism
gender
installation
intimacy
labor
love
metalsmithing
paper works
performance
power
sculpture
silence
sound
textiles
video
writing