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 […]
Cover Art
Elena Figurina, Composition (2002)
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 […]
Madeline Anderson, I Am Somebody (1969)
Stills from Madeline Anderson’s documentary film I Am Somebody (1969) appear on the cover of the Winter 2013 issue of Signs (volume 38, number 2), which contains an article by Shilyh Warren that discusses the film in depth. Artist Statement The kinship I felt toward the women of I Am Somebody compelled me to translate […]
Katarzyna Pollok, Sara in a Snailhouse (2002)
Katarzyna Pollok’s Sara in a Snailhouse appears on the cover of the Autumn 2012 issue of Signs (volume 38, number 1), which features a comparative perspectives symposium on Romani feminisms, edited by Ethel Brooks. Artist Statement Sara is the name of a saint worshipped by Roma in the south of France. She is supposed to […]
Lisa A. Turngren, 2-Way Mirror (2004)
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, Fish Dream (2006)
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, The Policeman’s Daughter (1987)
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, Uprising of the Mujeres (1979)
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, No Place (2007)
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, Gloves (2009)
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 […]