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“Nature Study” by Caroline Kelley is now available to purchase from our online shop. Link in bio. The image was taken by the artist in Versailles, 2018. Dimensions – 21 x 29.7cm (A4). Medium - C-type digital photographic print. Open edition. £50.00 . . Caroline Kelley’s practice is research-based and multidisciplinary. She is especially interested in the subject of nature in literature and the visual arts, studies of tourism and travel narratives, and women’s life-writing and autobiography. Caroline has presented and exhibited work in North America and Europe (including at Galerie les Territoires, Montreal, QC; Without Appeal and the Westminster Reference Library, London, UK; A.I.R. Bergen-USF Verftet and Studio Bergen, Bergen, NO; the Independent Media Center, Urbana-Champaign, IL and P.S. 122 Gallery, New York, NY) and has participated in international residencies at The Arctic Circle, Banff Centre for the Arts, the Stiftelsen Kulturhuset USF, and the Santa Fe Art Institute for which she was awarded a Joan Mitchell Foundation grant. More recently, Caroline received a fellowship from the Adrian Piper Research Archive Foundation in Berlin. She has a D.Phil. and M.St. in Women's Writing and Gender Studies, Life-writing, from the Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages, University of Oxford, and has studied art at the New York Academy of Art (MFA Program) and the Art Students League of New York. She lives with her husband and son in the Paris metropolitan area, France. . . #carolinekelley #naturestudy #naturephotography #colourphotography #photographer #artist #supportlivingartists #shopart #spiltmilkgallery #motherartists #collectart #gallery #supportwomenartists
#Repost @serpentineuk with @get_repost ・・・ Don't miss Faith Ringgold: Tell It Like It Is as part of imagine... @bbcarts flagship documentary series. Imagine... celebrates and explores the best in arts and culture, and shows artists who are unafraid to tackle issues that are relevant to audiences today. The documentary follows Faith in the lead up to her first European institutional solo exhibition at The Serpentine and airs tonight at 10.30pm on @bbcone. #FaithRinggold Alan Yentob & Faith Ringgold at The Serpentine Gallery. Photography: Adam Scourfield ©️BBC
'Stars and Bars', found fabrics, bed sheets, pillow cases, shirts, embroidery and machine quilting. @jessicawohlstudio . . Jessica Wohl received her BFA from the Kansas City Art Institute in 2001 and her MFA from the University of Georgia in 2010. Originally trained as an illustrator with specialization in art history, her studio practice now includes drawing, painting, embroidery, quilting, collage and installation. Wohl’s work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, including at the Belfast Photo Festival, the Robert Mann Gallery in New York and the Zeitgeist Gallery in Nashville. Her work has also been exhibited at venues in Miami, Atlanta, New Orleans, Kansas City, England, Finland, Norway, Italy, Hong Kong and Korea, and has recently been featured in New American Paintings, Burnaway, Vogue and ArtNews. Her work is collected by the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, the Sprint-Nextel Corporation, the H&R Block World Headquarters, numerous private collectors and is included in the Drawing Center’s Viewing Program. She is currently an assistant professor of Art at the University of the South where she teaches Drawing and Painting. . . #motherartist #fibreart #quilt #quilter #quiltersofinstagram #starsandbars #americanartist #artist
"My experience of motherhood has mainly impacted my work conceptually. My ideas have grown in depth, my execution has grown in efficiency, and the patience in working out motherhood has translated to a patience with my art. I used to kill ideas before they even had time to exist. Now, I don't overthink, I just execute, I am patient with my drawings as they take form, and a lot of depth has grown from that. How motherhood has impacted my work on an emotional level? I can never find the words to articulate that. I think that's why my work has actually thematically become about the maternal, whereas before children it wasn't. I need my work to process those maternal emotions." . Read the full interview with @leenowellwilson on our blog! Link in our bio 🙌
"Mainly what drives me to continue to create work is first and foremost the aid it offers in helping me process my experience within motherhood. So much of motherhood is inexplicable as intense; opposite emotions exist side-by-side. You can feel deep love right next to strong resentment. Loneliness exists right next to never being alone. My work helps me process that whirlwind. I also hate how little contemporary art investigates motherhood in a raw way. Where is the tearing, the squeezing, the blowing up only to deflate in a wrinkly fashion? I don't want to see anymore paintings of rose-y cheeked breastfeeding moms. I want to see raw thoughts, and am trying to expose my own raw thoughts through my work in hopes that people will respond." . . Check out the link in our bio for the full Q&A with Baltimore based artist @leenowellwilson 💕
"The best piece of advice I was given was from a good friend to "create the work anyway." Even if it's been done before, even if it seems like a crappy idea, even if you didn't get the grant or the fellowship or the exhibition you were proposing the work for - create the work anyway. Another great piece of advice from another artist-mom was to remember that the creation of your work will ebb and flow in seasons as a mom, but luckily you don't need to create work everyday to qualify as an artist. Take a break when mothering needs to take priority, and push in when your art can take priority." 🙌🙌🙌 . Our interview with Lee Nowell-Wilson @leenowellwilson is up on the blog today! Check out the full post and her amazing work - link in our bio.
As we begin to prepare for this year's member show, we thought we would #tbt to some of the gorgeous works that were exhibited in last year's show! First up, 'The Dance' by @mymychaelyn . MYCHAELYN MICHALEC is an American artist currently living in Dayton, Ohio. Mychaelyn’s work is a diary of her own domestic life. For her painting is a way of both resisting and embracing it. Her work speaks to the dichotomy of the family- emotional / physical closeness and yet frequently missed connections. "My work depicts ultramodern scenes of domestic life. Creating large scale paintings (some 7 feet tall), I use family life as a reference. Documenting life covertly, I use my phone’s camera to capture our relationships with each other and daily life. Social media has idealized family life, but I try to depict moments of both simultaneous disconnect and connection. Painting for me is both an embrace of and resistance to domestic life. The work’s narrative portrays the contradiction in my own desires for home and normalcy versus the unrealistic demands imposed on motherhood. There is a saccharine image of family life depicted in pop culture. The expectation is that mothers are to provide a perfect future and produce lives of happiness and fulfillment for their children. The dichotomy of the family is emotional closeness yet frequently, missed connections. Often, someone's attention is pulled away by technology as they check their phone, watch TV, or are simply lost in thought. When you connect to some things, you disconnect from others, those choices shape our lives. The painter, Fairfield Porter said, “Love is paying attention.” My work is about those small moments that linger." . . Member show 2019 will be announced soon - in the meantime check the incredible work of our members on our website 🔥#linkinbio
Annegret Soltau b. 1946 'Schwanger (Pregnant)' 1978. Gelatin Silver print with thread overstitched. One of the many wonderful colllage works exhibited in 'Cut and Paste : 400 years of collage' @natgalleriessco Mod 2. 'Soltau's early years were marked by extreme poverty. Following the destruction of the family's house in the Second World War, she lived with her grandmother in the former pigsty. She studied art in Hamburg from 1967 and also won scholarships to study in Vienna and Italy. In the mid-1970's she acted out performances in which she bound herself and others in black thread, even binding whole groups of people together. These works led to a series of photomontages of herself, which were torn and stitched back together with a needle and thread. She made a series based upon her pregnancies in 1978 and 1980.' Courtesy of @natgalleriessco and @richardsaltoungallery 'Cut and Paste : 400 Years of Collage' is on at The Scottish Gallery of Modern Art until October 27th. . . . #ngscutpaste #collage #annegretsoltau #womeninthearts #feministcollage #maternalart #blackandwhite #inspiration #edinburgh #exhibition #mod2