Beyond the Waves
Panel: Beyond the Waves, Feminist Artists Talk Across Generations
3:00 p.m.–5:00 p.m.
Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, Forum, 4th Floor
Presented with feminist cooperative gallery A.I.R.
as part of a month of events sponsored by Art W, this panel features
feminist artists and critics Carolee Schneemann, Mira Shor, Brynna
Tucker, Susan Bee, and Emma Bee-Bernstein, and explores connections
between generations of feminist artists.
@ The Elizabeth Sackler Center for Feminist Art at The Brooklyn Museum
Free and open to the public.
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Susan Bee is a painter, editor, and book artist living in NYC.
Bee has had four solo shows at A.I.R. Gallery and has been a member
since 1996. She is co-editor of M/E/A/N/I/N/G: An Anthology of Artists
Writings, Theory, and Criticism (Duke, 2000) and co-edits M/E/A/N/I/N/G
Online. Granary Books has published six of her artist's books. She
teaches in the School of Visual Arts MFA in Art Criticism and Writing
program. Her website is: http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/bee
Emma Bee Bernstein
is a photographer and writer. She has a BA from the University of
Chicago in Visual Arts and Art History. She wrote her thesis on
feminism in contemporary photography. She has shown her photos at
A.I.R. Gallery, the Smart Museum in Chicago, and the University of
Chicago. The New York Times featured her work in Vita Excolatur, a
University of Chicago erotica magazine. She has written about feminism
in M/E/A/N/I/N/G Online. Bernstein is currently co-writing with Nona
Willis-Aronowitz, GirlDrive, a book on young women and feminism, based
on their cross-country roadtrip.
Carolee Schneemann
is a multidisciplinary artist who ransformed the definition of art,
especially discourse on the body, sexuality, and gender. The history of
her work is characterized by research into archaic visual traditions,
pleasure wrested from suppressive taboos, the body of the artist in
dynamic relationship with the social body.
Painting, photography, performance art and installation works shown at
Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art; Whitney Museum of American Art;
Museum of Modern Art, NYC; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; and most
recently in a retrospective at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in
New York entitled "Up To And Including Her Limits". Film and video
retrospectives Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Museum of Modern Art,
NY; National Film Theatre, London; Whitney Museum, NY; San Francisco
Cinematheque; Anthology Film Archives, NYC.
She has taught at many institutions including New York University,
California Institute of the Arts, Bard College, the School of the Art
Institute of Chicago. Recipient of a 1999 Art Pace International Artist
Residency, San Antonio, Texas; Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant (1997,
1998); 1993 Guggenheim Fellowship; Gottlieb Foundation Grant; National
Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts, Maine
College of Art, Portland, ME. Lifetime Achievement Award, College Art
Association, 2000.
Schneemann has published widely; books include Cezanne, She Was A Great
Painter (1976), Early and Recent Work (1983); More Than Meat Joy:
Performance Works and Selected Writings (1979, 1997). Forthcoming
publications include Imaging Her Erotics, from MIT Press. A selection
of her letters edited by Kristine Stiles is also forthcoming.
Mira Schor is a painter and writer. Her honors include awards in
painting from the Guggenheim and Pollock-Krasner Foundations, and the
1999 College Art Association's Frank Jewett Mather Award in Art
Criticism.
Schor participated in the CalArts Feminist Art Program’s project
Womanhouse. She frequently addresses feminism in art and issues of
gender representation and power relations in her painting and her
critical writing. Schor is the author of Wet: On Painting, Feminism,
and Art Culture and co-editor with Susan Bee of M/E/A/N/I/N/G: An
Anthology of Artists' Writings, Theory, and Criticism (both from Duke
University Press) and of M/E/A/N/I/N/G Online at
http://writing.upenn.edu/pepc/meaning/. Her essay "I am not now nor have I ever been..." appeared in the
February 2008 issue of The Brooklyn Rail. She teaches in the MFA
Program in Fine Arts at Parsons The New School for Design.
Brynna Tuckerlives and works in Brooklyn, NY as an artist,
independent curator, and as Career Counselor/Internship Coordinator at
Pratt Institute. She studied Sculpture with a minor in Art History at
the University of Massachusetts in North Dartmouth (BFA, 1999) and
studied Fine Arts and Art History at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY
(MFA/MS 2001). She is currently working on a photographic project
called tentatively called Brooklyn Block Portrait stemming from her
previous project called Cracks in the Concrete Jungle, a series of
site-specific works throughout the five boroughs of New York City. Her
recent exhibitions include w25thbtwn10thand11th, a solo exhibition at
A.I.R. Gallery in New York, NY as part of her 2006-2007 Fellowship. Her
recent curatorial projects include Artists in Contested Spaces which
happened November 2006 at Pratt Institute, as part of the Art in the
Contested City Conference.