fyeahfeministart:

Sheila Levrant de Bretteville, Pink, 1973

I keep on going back and forth between origins of feminist art and more contemporary stuff. Heh.

She did this for an American Institute of Graphic Arts exhibition about colour. Hers was the only entry for the colour pink. So basically de Bretteville handed out pieces of pink paper to friends and to women on the street, asking them to describe what the colour meant to them. As you can guess, the colour was associated with stereotypical depictions of “femininity”. This has implications for art and graphic design that incorporates the colour pink for advertisement towards aimed audiences. She arranged women’s answers in a quilt-like manner. Many feminist artists in the ’70s incorporated traditional devalued women’s art such as knitting and quilting into their work to shake up the divide between “high” art and “low” art, as well as to display the value of this type of art.  

bybabaoutlook:

Clark Sorensen Pink Orchid Urinal

(via susegadnz)

iamnotawomanartist:

Vicious. Megan Pickering

Tracey Moffatt - Tracey Moffatt, First Jobs Series, 2008 - Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery

tulletulle:

Yoko Ono hung up in Kathleen Hanna’s pink office. (Elizabeth takes the best iPhone pictures.)

sexuality-space:

Nick Baldas, Holding Hands

From the IDAHO exhibition, 2010 (Sydney). A mapping of same-sex desire in Sydney, as part of the international day against homophobia, references instances of homophobic violence in Sydney (related to acts of homosexual affection, like holding hands). Many of the works, responses to homophobia, necessarily deal with sexuality, difference and public space.

Eee! It seems right that The Rocks should be dudes [because I always still think of convicts when I visualize it].

transpride:projectqueer:

Vintage Stonewall Riot flier

Nymphoto: Picture(s) of the Week: JeongMee Yoon

From JeongMee Yoon’s Pink and Blue Project 2005-ongoing.

Yoon’s statement from her site:

My current work, The Pink and Blue Projects are the topic of my thesis. This project explores the trends in cultural preferences and the differences in the tastes of children (and their parents) from diverse cultures, ethnic groups as well as gender socialization and identity. The work also raises other issues, such as the relationship between gender and consumerism, urbanization, the globalization of consumerism and the new capitalism.

Pink was once a color associated with masculinity, considered to be a watered down red and held the power associated with that color. In 1914, The Sunday Sentinel, an American newspaper, advised mothers to “use pink for the boy and blue for the girl, if you are a follower of convention.” The change to pink for girls and blue for boys happened in America and elsewhere only after World War II. As modern society entered twentieth century political correctness, the concept of gender equality emerged and, as a result, reversed the perspective on the colors associated with each gender as well as the superficial connections that attached to them . Today, with the effects of advertising on consumer preferences, these color customs are a worldwide standard.

If you’re a woman photographer around NY, the Nymphoto Collective  host artist events and networking IRL as well as by blog.

FemmeCast Video 1-Activist Stretching (via FemmeCast)

Silly but it made me smile: activist stretches for femmes, from from the Queer Fat Femmes.

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Louise Bourgeois fuckyeahfemmes

I totally like this more than her giant spider sculptures.