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Feminist And…

The years 2005-2012 saw many ‘blockbuster’ style exhibitions of feminist or women’s work in national or regional museums around the world, from WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution (Los Angeles) to elles@centrepompidou (Paris) and Live Actually (Tokyo), and many others. The aim of each of these exhibitions was to produce a defining survey, for example in the ones cited, of feminist art of the 1970s; of the story of modern art told only through work by women; and contemporary work by Japanese women. Within this context, Feminist And…. was curated to explore the intersection of feminist thinking with contemporary art practice, and to present it as a living and present set of political and aesthetic concerns. The method was agreed with the Mattress Factory, a museum of installation art with both a permanent collection (Kusama, Oppenehimer, Turrell, Woodrow, etc) and a temporary exhibition schedule. Six artists were selected on the basis of their history of applying feminist thinking to diverse issues and aesthetics, each artist occupying a separate gallery within the MF. The artists were asked to create new, site-specific, works for the exhibition and the exchange of ideas and their interactions became a significant part of the process. The catalogue was published after the opening, containing process and installation shots, selections from interviews with the artists, as well as a curatorial statement.

National Endowment for the Arts - $34,000

Pennsylvania Council on the Arts - $7,000

Allegheny Regional Asset District - $8,000

Pittsburgh Region Artists Program - $35,000 (for Betsy Damon)

Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts - $40,000

The Pittsburgh Foundation - $80,000

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