Hope all your girls had a great holiday!

I'm beginning the intro and conclusion, and Jessica and I will be meeting this weekend to begin the powerpoint presentation.  A quick blurb or thesis sentence from you all would be appreciated before sunday, otherwise I'll just fudge it...  you can post it or send it to my email jessie.hornbrook@yahoo.com

thanks all!

Images for Presentation?

May and I were each going to pick 2 images for our presentation on the male gaze in contemporary painting.

These are the ones I'm considering/submitting. What do you think?

"The Dane," 2006 by John Currin



and "Couch", Oil on Linen, 60 x 62, 1997-1998, by Lisa Yuskavage




I chose these particular images because I feel they hearken back to historical representations of the male gaze (nudes in an ornate interior, lounging on a couch) in a modern context.

I chose this particular Currin image because it seems a bridge between his older hyperstylized, hypersexualized figures and the work he has been doing more recently which draws more directly from pornographic sources (Here's a blog post showing the direct porn sources alongside the imagery: NYC Art: John Currin Revisited).

I feel Yuskavage's "Couch" also contains elements of both her older and more recent work, as the images on the wall resemble the doll-like figures she is now incorporating into her compositions.

Meeting??

When are we meeting to discuss the final draft of the presentation?

Cyberfeminism

Hey Melissa and Noemi--

Are you two doing something other than cyborg and new media art?
I would be happy to incorporate cyberfeminism into my presentation with Shannon---(I think it is a topic someone really should deal with).
Please let me know!

Jill

"The Gaze" in Contemporary Painting

May Babcock and I (Hannah Campbell) are working on issues of the "gaze" in contemporary painting.

"What does it mean for female painters to be creating work that potentially encourages their own subjugation? May and I will be focusing on issues of the "gaze" in contemporary painting, particularly in the work of Jenny Saville and Lisa Yuskavage."

Depending on the ultimate structure and time available with our material, we may also cover Ghada Amer and John Currin (in relation to Lisa Yuskavage, because he is a male doing the same sorts of paintings but his gender leads to potentially vastly different readings.)

History

Hey everyone!

I was working on the Powerpoint and I was wondering if you might want to include in your info to me anything in particular you might want me to touch on while speaking about the history behind what we are discussing, that way you don't have to waste your presentation time on doing it. Just an idea. Let me know what you think! :)

~Jessica Clinton

Jill and Shannon

Feminist artists use performance as a means to express their political beliefs and issues impacting women - abortion, sexuality, body image, abuse, etc. We are each going to talk about a couple of artists that use performance as a means of political expression. Each of our artists will have different political agendas.