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Padayon, Iska!
● Mother of American ● Known for her collage style
modernism & foremother of the that consists of
feminist art movement. black-and-white photographs,
● Her works are references to
with declarative captions laid
the female form.
● Black Iris, 1921, The Met on top.
Museum, New York ● “You”, “your”, “I”, “we” , and
Barbara Kruger
“they” seeks to address cultural
(1945)
constructions of power, identity,
Georgia O’Keefe and sexuality.
(1887-1986)
● American artist
● A Mexican artist celebrated for ● Her work aims to explore
her many portraits, women’s place in the world,
self-portraits, and works and is an advocate for black
inspired by nature and objects women’s rights and freedom.
native to Mexico.
● Broke many social conventions
Carrie Mae
such as :
Weems (1935)
○ masculine
Frida Kahlo
appearance
(1907-1954) ● German-born American artist
○ clothing choices
best known for her
○ wild hair
representations of mortality
○ unplucked eyebrows
and sexuality.
● Self-Portrait with Monkey,
● Devoted much of her work to
1938, Albright-Knox Gallery
exploring the female human
Buffalo, NY
figure and its role within
Kiki Smith (1954) society.
● French-American artist working
with large-scale sculpture and
● Founded in NYC in 1985
installation art covering
● An anonymous group of
feminist ideas such as :
feminist, female artists who
Louise Joséphine ○ domesticity and the
use monkey masks to disguise
Bourgeois family
themselves.
(1911-2010) ○ sexuality and the Guerrilla Girls
● Central objective is to devote
body
themselves to fighting sexism
○ the fallen woman
and racism within the art world.
○ theme of running
away
● English artist who gained her
reputation as a Young British
● Peruvian multimedia artist
Artist during the 1990s.
● Her conceptual artworks were
● Uses visual puns and humor
ground-breaking for South
incorporating photography,
American feminist movements.
Sarah Lucas collage, and found objects to
(1962) create her artworks,
● Her art satirizes gender
María Teresa stereotypes and deconstructs
Burga Ruiz femininity and masculinity.
(1935) ● “Male Gaze”
Padayon, Iska!
● An English multidisciplinary
artist who explores notions of
feminism, suxuality, and
identity in her surreal portraits
of fairytale graphics through
collages, paintings, and prints.
Alexandra
Gallagher
Padayon, Iska!