No Result
View All Result
Newsletter
Me Passions
  • Home
  • About US
    • Privacy and Copyright 2020
    • Disclaimer
  • Categories
    • Travel
    • Collectibles
    • Recipes
    • Meet and Greet
    • Music
    • Photoshop
    • Photography
    • Jewelry
    • Movie
  • Women
    • Women handbags
  • Men
    • Watches
    • T-shirts
  • Jewelry Sterling Silver
  • Learn Guitar Online
  • Acoustic Guitars
    • Aiersi Resonator Guitar
    • Resonator
    • Custom Electric Guitars
    • Guitar Amplifiers
    • Guitar Builder/Luthier Supply
  • Books
    • Food book
    • Movies & TV Shows
  • Music
    • Albums
    • Beatles vinyl
      • Beatles Memorabilia
    • Turntable Record Player
  • Shop
    • Basket
    • Checkout
  • Home
  • About US
    • Privacy and Copyright 2020
    • Disclaimer
  • Categories
    • Travel
    • Collectibles
    • Recipes
    • Meet and Greet
    • Music
    • Photoshop
    • Photography
    • Jewelry
    • Movie
  • Women
    • Women handbags
  • Men
    • Watches
    • T-shirts
  • Jewelry Sterling Silver
  • Learn Guitar Online
  • Acoustic Guitars
    • Aiersi Resonator Guitar
    • Resonator
    • Custom Electric Guitars
    • Guitar Amplifiers
    • Guitar Builder/Luthier Supply
  • Books
    • Food book
    • Movies & TV Shows
  • Music
    • Albums
    • Beatles vinyl
      • Beatles Memorabilia
    • Turntable Record Player
  • Shop
    • Basket
    • Checkout
No Result
View All Result
Me Passions

Artist and Former Guerrilla Girl Jane Kaufman Dies at 83 – ARTnews.com

by golfinger007
28th June 2021
in Art
0
Share on FacebookShare on Twitter


Jane Kaufman, a passionate second wave feminist, Pattern and Decoration pioneer, arts activist and member of the Guerrilla Girls, died of lung cancer on June 2 at her home in Andes, New York. She had just celebrated her 83rd birthday.

Although she had lived in the Catskills for the past 17 years, few of her many acquaintances in the area knew of her remarkable past. Instead, they remember her as a spirited, fun, great gardener. As Jan Albert, a close friend, told me on the phone ARTnews“I had absolutely no idea about their serious background” until the two really got to know each other. Albert described in an email a recent meeting of friends where Kaufman “lay on the sofa with red flowers in his hair” while “telling dirty jokes and singing songs”.

Born in New York, she earned a BA from NYU in 1960 and an MA from Hunter College in 1965. She exhibited her work extensively in the early 1970s. In 1971 the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York held her solo exhibition “Recent Paintings”, and in 1973 she took part in the Whitney Biennale. She was also one of the first women to teach in the arts department at Bard College, where she spent the 1972-73 academic year. In 1974 she received a Guggenheim grant.

Originally a painter, Kaufman soon began to incorporate embroidery and textile elements that she had learned from her grandmother. She became part of a group of artists who enjoyed maximalist decorative beauty. Developed as a deliberate contrast to minimalism in the mid-1970s to 1980s, the Pattern and Decoration movement is credited for focusing both on the contributions of women artists – although there were men in the group – and on what is traditionally Eurocentric Contexts viewed as mere “practical” endeavors such as mending, quilting and beautifying.

Joyce Kozloff, a well-known member of the Pattern and Decoration group that Kaufman knew well during his heyday, said of Kaufman: “She was passionate about this subject, decoration, and she was also fearless.”

In 1976 Kozloff was one of 10 artists Kaufman selected to exhibit their work in the Alessandra Gallery in New York. The exhibition “Ten approaches to the decorative” was accompanied by a document with statements from the artists. In her post, Kaufman explained her fascination with light as a subject in itself, writing that metal thread and horn beads, such as are sometimes used on handbags and clothes, enabled her to “make purely abstract paintings about light; ‘Real’ light – reflected, not absorbed, and at the same time the decorative element inherent in the materials. ”The pieces that Kaufman showed in the exhibition were riffs on Frank Stella’s black paintings, but smaller and studded with pearls. As she wrote, “I want you to decorate the walls – in a decorative sense.

When the pattern and decoration movement went out of style, Kaufman used her textile skills to upholster friends’ sofas and turned her decorative passion towards gardening.

Kaufman was also active in feminist art circles, perhaps best known among the guerrilla girls. She renounced a pseudonym and was one of the few to reveal her identity. According to an email from colleague Frida Kahlo (a pseudonym), Kaufman “had the ability to put a problem right at the center and the courage and principles to face those in power”.

Later in life, Kaufman continued to march and protest, sometimes with Albert. When Albert learned more about Kaufman’s illustrious past, she joined the artist’s delight in having her work recognized in the LA MoCA exhibition “Pattern and Decoration in American Art 1972-1985” and on the cover of the accompanying catalog. The show, curated by Anna Katz, opened in late October 2019, but closed several months earlier in mid-March 2020 due to the pandemic. The survey is currently on view through November 28, 2021 at the Bard’s Hessel Museum of Art in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York.

There on a wall hangs the work that Kaufman calls her finest, Embroidered, beaded crazy quilt (1983-85), its dimensions suitable for a queen-size bed. The effect of countless linear shapes, in shades and patterns of mostly purple with a little pink, combined with 16 sewn and beaded flowers in blue and red on black, is both strangely calming and disturbing. The flowers have a sweetness and the cacophony of the fabrics put together is edgy.

According to Katz, Kaufman used more than 100 historical embroidery stitches that she researched at the Textile Museum in Washington DC. She made all the seams and beads by hand herself. When Katz first saw the ceiling, it was hanging on the artist’s wall where her cat clawed it. The work is, Katz said in an interview with Bard ARTnews, a real crazy quilt. “A crazy quilt is traditionally a quilt made from scraps. And that is really a tenet of women’s home economics. You use what is available. This is also a basic principle of decoration. You use the given space, ”explains Katz. “And in it you make it so beautiful, so colorful, so interesting, as captivating as possible.” And Kaufman himself could describe this feeling very well.



Previous Post

The Beatles Are For Men!!! STINKPIECE

Next Post

Paul McCartney / George Michael – Drive My Car (Live 8 2005)

golfinger007

Next Post
Paul McCartney / George Michael – Drive My Car (Live 8 2005)

Paul McCartney / George Michael - Drive My Car (Live 8 2005)

Search

No Result
View All Result

Newsletter

RECENT NEWS

Photoshop Image Size and Resolution
Photoshop

Photoshop Image Size and Resolution

by golfinger007
30th March 2023
0

Easy to follow, detailed explanation of image size, pixels, and document resolution. source

Read more
Come Together – The Beatles / All instruments performed by YOYOKA

Come Together – The Beatles / All instruments performed by YOYOKA

30th March 2023
Miley Cyrus Foundation Reacts to ‘Rainbowland’ Ban at Wisconsin School – Rolling Stone

Miley Cyrus Foundation Reacts to ‘Rainbowland’ Ban at Wisconsin School – Rolling Stone

30th March 2023
Luthier on Luthier: Dick Boak

Luthier on Luthier: Dick Boak

30th March 2023
Jamie’s top 10 cookie recipes | Features

Jamie’s top 10 cookie recipes | Features

30th March 2023

POPULAR POSTS

  • I meet the Youngest Titanic Survivor Millvina Dean!

    I meet the Youngest Titanic Survivor Millvina Dean!

    0 shares
    Share 0 Tweet 0
  • Get back to the Beatles with Sir Alan Parsons

    0 shares
    Share 0 Tweet 0
  • 15 The Rock Movies You Slept on or Totally Forgot About

    0 shares
    Share 0 Tweet 0
  • AMAZING Texas Sheet Cake | The Recipe Critic

    0 shares
    Share 0 Tweet 0
  • Film Noir Review: Where Danger Lives (1950)

    0 shares
    Share 0 Tweet 0
Facebook Youtube Pinterest Instagram
Me Passions

About US
Welcome to our stimulating blog and journal!

Hello! Let me introduce my wife and myself. I am Stephane and I was really lucky to meet my wife, Mariolis, 14 years ago in the beautiful Caribbean island of Cuba. For some time now we have dreamed to create an on-line ‘dairy’ and blog to share aspire our life’s passions
Read my full story.

Categories

  • Art
  • Beauty
  • Blues Music
  • Cigar Box Guitar
  • Cinema
  • Collectibles
  • Cuba
  • Discography
  • Folk music
  • Food
  • Graphic Design
  • Guitar luthier tool
  • History
  • Jewelry
  • Lifestyle
  • Magazine
  • Meet and Greet
  • MePassions news
  • Movie
  • Music
  • Paul McCartney
  • Photography
  • Photoshop
  • Recipes
  • Rolling Stones
  • Television
  • The Beatles
  • Travel
  • Uncategorised
  • Vintage guitar

Tags

Art Blues Collectible Cuba Film Font Food Food recipe Graphic Design Graphic Design Photography Photoshop Guitar Harp guitar Historical History Lifestyle Magazine Movie Music Photography Photoshop Recipe Food Recipes Serge Ramelli Television The Beatles Time Titanic Tommy Emmanuel Travel Vintage guitar

MePassions.com is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to Amazon.com. MePasions.com is participant of other affiliate programs Disclaimer© 2021 MePassions - All rights reserved MePassions.

No Result
View All Result
  • Home
  • About US
    • Privacy and Copyright 2020
    • Disclaimer
  • Categories
    • Travel
    • Collectibles
    • Recipes
    • Meet and Greet
    • Music
    • Photoshop
    • Photography
    • Jewelry
    • Movie
  • Women
    • Women handbags
  • Men
    • Watches
    • T-shirts
  • Jewelry Sterling Silver
  • Learn Guitar Online
  • Acoustic Guitars
    • Aiersi Resonator Guitar
    • Resonator
    • Custom Electric Guitars
    • Guitar Amplifiers
    • Guitar Builder/Luthier Supply
  • Books
    • Food book
    • Movies & TV Shows
  • Music
    • Albums
    • Beatles vinyl
      • Beatles Memorabilia
    • Turntable Record Player
  • Shop
    • Basket
    • Checkout

MePassions.com is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to Amazon.com. MePasions.com is participant of other affiliate programs Disclaimer© 2021 MePassions - All rights reserved MePassions.

Welcome Back!

Login to your account below

Forgotten Password?

Create New Account!

Fill the forms below to register

All fields are required. Log In

Retrieve your password

Please enter your username or email address to reset your password.

Log In
en English
ar العربيةnl Nederlandsen Englishfr Françaisde Deutschit Italianoja 日本語ko 한국어ru Русскийes Españolsv Svenskatr Türkçeur اردوvi Tiếng Việt

Add New Playlist