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Kara Walker at the MAC: 24 Jan – 27 Apr 2014. (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.
Using the simple black silhouettes in large scale on a white gallery wall, Walker utilizes historically inspired stylized figure to create visual narratives that explore America’s past (and present) relationship with African culture, slavery, and the romanticized nostalgia of “Southern” culture. Her images are biting, and controversial, and it is this very reason that she makes this work.
Robert Motherwell was an artist that worked in the nonrepresentational styles called Abstract Expressionist. Even though his paintings lacked clear objective iconography, his painting’s subject matter focused on the Spanish Civil War, specifically the authoritarian dominance of the Franco regime. Since these works are non-representational, they require some contextual research of the work in order to fully understand the meaning.
Using massive scale photography of the everyday underrepresented segment of society, JR’s work addresses poverty, politics and gender. Bringing social awareness to the public, JR’s work predominantly exists in the public space.
Since the early 1980’s this anonymous art collaborative has been educating the public, utilizing the visual language of advertising, with their posters and billboards. Their messages inform us about the gender inequities in the art world. Through their efforts the public are informed of the lack of equal pay for women, the lack of women artists in museum collections (despite the over-representation of a nude woman’s body as subject matter), and many other true social inequities experienced by women.
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