Lisa A. Turngren’s 2-Way Mirror was featured on the Summer 2012 issue of Signs, “Sex: A Thematic Issue.” Artist Statement As a medium, collage has always allowed me to speak about concepts and content that lie on the surface (manifest) and below (latent). It is a form that lends itself to tricking the eye and […]
Stacey Steers’s Fish Dream appeared on the cover of the Spring 2012 issue of Signs (volume 37, number 3), which featured a comparative perspectives symposium titled “Fish/Wives: Gender, Representation, and Agency in Coastal Communities,” edited by Valerie Burton. Artist Statement Fish Dream is a still from my animated film, Phantom Canyon, which was created from […]
Paula Rego’s The Policeman’s Daughter appeared on the Winter 2012 issue of Signs (volume 37, number 2), the “Unfinished Revolutions” special issue edited by Phillip Rothwell. Biographical Statement Born in Lisbon in 1935, Paula Rego studied at the Slade School of Art in the 1950s. In 1976, she moved permanently to England, where she eventually […]
Judith F. Baca’s Uprising of the Mujeres appeared on the Autumn 2011 issue of Signs (volume 37, number 1), which featured a comparative perspectives symposium titled “Gloria E. Anzaldúa, An International Perspective,” edited by Norma E. Cantú. Artist Statement I want to produce artwork that has meaning beyond simple decorative values. I hope to […]
Carmen McLeod’s No Place was featured on the Summer 2011 issue of Signs, which featured a comparative perspectives symposium titled “Love Exiles.” Artist Statement I work responsively, reacting to an experience, object, or memory and build upon each moment in a given work until a stage of completion is reached. No Place was in response […]
Laura Splan’s Gloves was featured on the Winter 2011 issue of Signs (volume 36, number 2), which featured a comparative perspectives symposium on gender and medical tourism edited by Andrew Mazzaschi and Emily A. MacDonald. Artist Statement Gloves is a pair of ladies gloves cast from the artist’s hands. The vivid detail and the implied […]
Prem Chowdhry’s Scarlet Woman appeared on the cover of the Autumn 2010 issue of Signs (volume 36, number 1), the “Feminists Theorize International Political Economy” special issue edited by Shirin M. Rai and Kate Bedford. Artist Statement A multitextural work, this painting poses a dilemma: is it the same woman or two different women shown […]
Nell Painter’s Dedication appeared on the cover of the Summer 2010 issue of Signs (volume 35, number 4), which featured a symposium titled “Black Women’s Studies and the Transformation of the Academy.” Artist Statement Dedication consists of ten consecutive panels commemorating the dedication of Alison Saar’s monument to Harriet Tubman in Harlem. One reappears in paintings […]
Bongi Kasiki’s After the Rain appeared on the Spring 2010 issue of Signs (volume 35, number 3), which featured a comparative perspectives symposium on indigenous feminisms. Artist Statement This work of art symbolizes the time after the first rains when summer begins–hence the bright colors, trees growing next to the river, game grazing on green […]
Leslie Lawrence’s photograph appeared on the cover of the Winter 2010 issue of Signs (volume 35, number 2), the “Women in Agriculture” special issue edited by Carolyn Sachs and Margaret Alston. Artist Statement In the winter of 2008–9, I traveled with my son, sister, and nephew to India. Driving from Agra to Jaipur we passed […]
