Showing posts with label Seductive Subversion: Women Pop Artists. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Seductive Subversion: Women Pop Artists. Show all posts

Sunday, March 6, 2011

Seductive Subversion: a journal quilt

    Seductive Subversion: Women Pop Artists just has to be one of my journal quilts since the show, book and dvd were so moving to me. I believe that  over 40 years ago in Manhattan, at a Pop Art show,  a door was opened to me and I began to paint. Seeing the show recently I felt the same again. The grafitti on the bat wall spells out the show title, "Beyond the Surface," Sid Sach's curatorial essay in the book.

Click on photo to see grafitti.
The door is pulled back.
    Sid Sachs is a hero for bringing attention to the women Pop Artists who participated in the Pop Art movement but were overlooked in the history books. Some ladies are still alive and their participation in the video is moving.

    The materials women used beyond the cool surface of the men's opened the world to the infinite materials used in art today. Maybe that is why I work in every medium except glass blowing. Certainly I appreciate all the artists in the movement for their wit/intellect and freedom to use any subject matter.