Artist Statement As an antithesis to advertising, art can be a catalyst for the important conversations about life. I began making street art in 2007 to combat marketing schemes, which objectify women rather than show them as active participates in society. Placing art in the streets allows me to create a discussion about art […]
Artist Statement Robes or shoes, even underclothing, possess infinite varieties of types, styles, and colors, which can be mixed together in a multitude of ways. Besides being implicated in body politics or serving as symbols and declarations of identity, they are also capable of achieving a kind of state of mind. They add value to […]
Artist Statement: Let go with me Make room for Joy! The weightlessness of forgiveness Seeks peace With love – Maya Freelon Asante Artist Biography: Maya Freelon Asante is an award‐winning artist whose work was described by poet Maya Angelou as “visualizing the truth about the vulnerability and power of the human being”; her unique tissue […]
Artist Statement: This piece was inspired by two stories Mason heard on the radio at the time of the Truth and Reconciliation hearings. They told of the execution of two liberation movement cadres by the security police. One was Harold Sefola, who as Mason relates, “asked permission to sing Nkosi Sikelel’ iAfrika” before he was […]
Artist Statement In The Collapse of PAL (eulogy, obsequies and requiem for the planes of blue phosphorus), the Angel of History (as described by Walter Benjamin) reflects on the PAL (phase alternating line) signal and its termination. This death sentence, although executed in silence, was a brutally violent act that left PAL disregarded and obsolete. […]
Artist Statement: In 2009 Kim Anno led a team of professors, students, and artists to create a national conference–Rising Tide, the Arts and Ecological Ethics–between the California College of the Arts and Stanford University. This experience transformed her own artistic practice. In 2011 she attended Cop 17 in Durban, while making a film with young […]
Lucien Kubo’s work appeared on the Winter 2014 issue of Signs. Artist Statement: I am a Sansei, a third-generation Japanese American. An important part of my life experience is that of my parents, their family, and over 120,000 Japanese Americans incarcerated in internment camps during World War II. I think of my art as philosophical, historical, […]
Toni Bowers and Natasha Ward’s work appeared on the Autumn 2013 issue of Signs (vol. 39, no. 1), a special issue titled “Women, Gender, and Prison: National and Global Perspectives.” Artist Statements: Toni Bowers: Being able to express my inner/outer feelings through art was something I had never experienced before. It was a way of an […]
Michèle Magema’s Goodbye Rosa – 2005 appeared on the cover of the Summer 2013 issue of Signs (volume 38, number 4), a thematic issue edited by Sumi Cho, Kimberle Williams Crenshaw, and Leslie McCall titled Intersectionality: Theorizing Power, Empowering Theory. Artist Statement Michèle Magema’s work exists within an intermediary zone, a sort of mental space, or a frontier that […]
This detail of Elena Figurina’s Composition appeared on the cover of the Spring 2013 issue of Signs (volume 38, number 3), which featured a cluster of articles on women in contemporary Russia. Artist Statement This work represents the relationship between part and whole, private and public. Biographical Statement Elena Figurina was born in 1955. She […]
