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Nashville Scene Art: February 23, 2006 Comforts of Home Two women raid the linen closet and larder for the basic materials of their art by David Maddox About 35 years ago, women in increasing numbers started making art with a distinctively "female" character. One of them, Judy Chicago, is currently in Nashville as the Chancellor’s Artist in Residence at Vanderbilt. But what does it mean to say art has a "female character?" Feminist critic Lucy Lippard took at stab at describing the elements of the new art coming from women in the early ’70s. She saw overarching characteristics like a proclivity for fragmentation, repetition and autobiographical elements; more specific commonalities like the inclusion of certain images (she cited windows, flowers and animals); and the use of women’s techniques such as sewing, weaving and knitting. Domestic imagery—food, cooking, housekeeping—certainly formed a part of it. Thirty-five years on, these images provide less ground for surprise, and in fact make up staples of artistic imagery, just as Western art over the centuries has continually returned to portraits, still lifes, landscapes, cityscapes and seascapes. The two artists in the current show at Ruby Green follow this path of women’s art with striking additions. Mariah Johnson, an Arkansan finishing an MFA at Illinois, makes sculptures from bed sheets, and Fiona Kinsella, a Canadian who appeared last summer in Zeitgeist’s "Eponymous" group show, constructs assemblages using eggs and wedding cakes. Read the Full Article |
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