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Repository 171: Women History Month | Round Up on Women Artists
Celebrating women’s history month I figured I would be posting more images of women artists, doing more write ups of women artists, and at the very least looking at more artwork by women. In true banana slug fashion though, the month of March is rolling to an end, and I have been able to post only once, and will now simply provide an overview of some of the female art and artists I did ponder this month. I was…
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Repository 83: Refusal, the Political and Anti-Participation in Art
“Art is not beauty or novelty; art is effectiveness and disruption.” – León Ferrari A political system is all about the framework and defined methods of control. Political artists are all about breaking out of this control. By definition they are anti-system, anti-method, anti-participation, and in a word bold. I’ve always admired the urgency of some truly political artists, whose work demands attention given their personal history with a given politic that they are anxious to break down. One of…
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