#feministfriday episode 487 | High Tide
Hihi,
How are you doing? I'm pretty good, at least in part because I went to San Francisco this week and got to visit the MOMA there. If there is one institution that got the memo that women's art matters now, that institution is SFMOMA!
Maybe it is the effect of being right by the Pacific but the work I really engaged with was about water, starting with these works by Minerva Cuevas that break out of their canvas:
That's Flores Sea on the left and Overseas on the right. Here's an interview with Minerva in which you can read about the incredible range and reach of her work:
I started these interventions in the ’90s, when Internet culture was becoming massive. It was logical to use technology to make my project appear as a huge corporate endeavor, when, in fact, it was only me behind a computer, sending things by post, pasting posters, and going to supermarkets with stickers.
https://sculpturemagazine.art/sabotage-a-conversation-with-minerva-cuevas/I was absolutely drawn to High Tide, Heavy Armor by Calida Rawles:
Here's an interview with Calida, and you can also see many more of her pictures at the link. Love this work so much:
I look at this lineage that I come from. What do I have to complain about? What do I have to be afraid of? Not much. I am a blessed human being to be born in this time where I can voice how I feel without major repercussions. I can paint during the day as an occupation. I have control of what I do on a daily basis. I am living in blessings.
Something Bigger Than You: In Conversation with Calida Rawles - Burnaway
Bryn Evans meets with Calida Rawles to consider water’s ubiquity in Black popular culture, swimming as metaphor, and the liquid nature of memory.
The Dorothea Tanning exo at the Tate a few years ago was fantastic, and it was good to see her again in Self-Portrait:
As you might expect this interview with her in Andy Warhol's Interview magazine is a fiesta of name dropping from start to finish. Here's a particular zenith but there is more at the link:
One day Max and I were in the St. Germain de Pres where all those cafes are, and it was a lovely May day, and we were on the terrace of the Café Fior, and Robert Oppenheimer was sitting at the next café [...] I introduced myself and then I said, “This is my husband, Max Ernst”
https://www.interviewmagazine.com/art/max-ernst-dorothea-tanning-meet-andy-warholLove,
Alex.