Guerrilla Girls “How many woman had one-person exhibitions at NYC museums last year? (1990)
Guerrilla Girls “How many woman had one-person exhibitions at NYC museums last year?” Burnaby Art Gallery Exhibition, 1990
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Janine Antoni is performance/sculpture artist originally from the Bahamas, although she both studied and currently lives in the U.S. Arguably the most interesting part of Antoni’s work is that her body is the main tool used to create her sculptures, using her teeth to chip away at materials, or maybe using her hair to paint such as in the included photo. I feel like this really brings a whole different level to the ‘artist experience.’ Seeing the photo above makes me think about how something, like painting, even though one may be thinking of it as a very direct way of translating a thought or emotion, is still mediated by the tools one must use to create the artwork, such as a paintbrush. I also think that in using her own body, Antoni expresses how all artists put some part of themselves into their work, she just shows it in an extremely litteral way.
Click on the photo to be redirected to Janine Antoni’s Art21 page. :]](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lzcrtfmFrW1rnxh7qo1_250.jpg)
I don’t want to be a shining star. I want to be a big black mass flying through space filled with stars.
— Kiki Smith, Lynne Tillman in Conversation with Kiki Smith, A Gathering: 1980-2005 (via replikboken)
