#miriam schapiro

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ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM 🎨 love, ur local art mom 🩵

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hi I’m annemarie and I’m an art historian! not adjuncting for the first time in five years was rly hard for me so I threw some slides together so I could still (sort of) teach the same material as my language of art class but a) I threw these slides together for instagram so space was/is limited and b) language of art is a ten week run through art history so I’m presenting only the most accessible information here – there’s so much more to this art period and to these artists! – please don’t expect it to be comprehensive and please do ask if you have any questions!

oh p.s. my first ever class of art history students came up with the name ‘art mom’ for me at the end of the quarter and yes it does make me cry if I think about it too long thanks so much for asking

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Miriam Schapiro (also known as Mimi) (November 15, 1923 – June 20, 2015) was a Canadian-born artist based in the United States. She was a painter, sculptor, printmaker, and a pioneer of feminist art. via Wikipedia

Dollhouse by Miriam Schapiro and Sherry Brody, 1972, via Smithsonian American Art Museum

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It's Fine Press Friday!

Our fine press book this week is MASKS around the world by John Ross (1921-2017). Ross was an esteemed and prolific printmaker as well as a teacher, SAGA president, and recipient of numerous accolades and awards including five MacDowell Colony Fellowships between 1977-1983. In 1991 he created The High Tide Press with wife Clare Romano and went on to produce 19 volumes of his own artist books, including MASKS around the world. 

Ross is credited with helping to develop collagraph plates, a type of printing plate created through collaging materials to a rigid substrate. The collagraphs used to print MASKS around the world were made in Venice, Italy in the summer of 1998. They were created of mat board, fabric, sand and carborundom grits glued together with acrylic polymer gesso. One plate is included with each of the 15 copies of the book. Four of the masks within the book utilize pop up elements to add dimension and whimsy to the depictions and an introduction by Miriam Schapiro reminds readers of the inspiration and power inherent in mask wearing.  

The binding of the book was done by James DiMarcantonio of Hope Bindery in Providence, Rhode Island and features a delightful resin casting. Perhaps unsurprisingly to regular readers, MASKS around the world is from our dear friend Dennis Bayuzick’s extraordinary collection of fine press publications. Special Collections holds number 14 of this limited edition which is signed by the artist. 

The collagraph plates included with our book were used to print the Wasp Mask of the KW AKIUTL from the Northwest Coast of America.

View other books from the collection of Dennis Bayuzick. 

View more Fine Press Friday Posts. 

– Jenna, Special Collections Graduate Intern 

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Femmage, also know as feminist collage is any artwork done by women by assembling objects, as by collage, photomontage, etc. It was defined by Miriam Schapiro and Melissa Meyer as an activity “practiced by women using traditional women's techniques to achieve their art—sewing, piecing, hooking, cutting, appliquéing. Meyer and Schapiro, claimed women/femmes to be the inventors of collage, after it was claimed to created by Picasso or Braque. In design studies it is also debate around why craft is not seen as design, some stating the reasons are sexist/misogynistic. “Femmage” work can be traced back to precolonial Africa and continued in maroon communities post colonization. Some same say maroon communities in Suriname have no weaving tradition, the women have since the nineteenth century, turned store-bought cloth into colorfully deco- rated capes, loincloths, scarves, waist-kerchiefs, neckerchiefs, wrap-skirts, baby bonnets, men’s caps, adolescent girls’ pubic aprons, and men’s dance aprons, as well as hammock sheets, hunting sack covers, and draw-string bags for small items such as shotgun cartridges. Cloth is raised in shrines to the ancestors, flown as banners on funeral canoes, offered as gifts, and used as decoration on coffin”

1:Saamaka Maroon shoulder cape, sewn early-20th century by Peepina (Suriname). Collection of Richard and Sally Price. Photo by Antonia Graeber.

2: Cape owned by future Saamaka Headcaptain Faansisonu (ca. 1905–1989)

Richard & Sally Price Collection,

Schomburg Center for Research in

Black Culture, New York

3: Reverse appliqué, early 1990s Musée des Cultures Guyanaises.

4: Chapter 5 New Lives for Ndyuka Women: “Everything’s Changed but the Men”, date and photographer unknown

5: St.-Laurent-du-Maroni 2013. From left to right: 1,2, and 7 are embroidered, 3 and 6 are painted, 4 and 5 are appliqué’d.

Photo byCécile Duro

6: Cross-stitch embroidery

Steven Alfaisi Facebook ca. 2015

7: source unknown

8: source unknown

9: “Miss Saint-Laurent” contestants 2007 Hatt Eaton

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Miriam Schapiro, Baby Block Bouquet, 1981

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ARTIST: Miriam Schapiro

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Pas de Deux by Miriam Schapiro (2005)

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There’s only a few days left to see Miriam Schapiro: The André Emmerich Years, Paintings from 1957–76 at Eric Firestone Gallery.

From the press release-

Miriam Schapiro (1923–2015) is now well-known as a pioneer of the Women’s Art Movement, and for her contribution to the Pattern and Decoration Movement. She fused craft work, traditionally made by women, with modern painting in collages termed “femmage.” However, this exhibition will additionally shed light on her early Abstract Expressionist canvases, and her pioneering approach utilizing computer technology to create Hard Edge geometric painting in the 1960s. Spotlighting the legacy of this feminist artist, the exhibition will explore three stylistic phases, with significant examples from these two decades of Schapiro’s career.

This exhibition closes 5/13/23.

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Miriam Schapiro

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Docu: !WOMEN ART REVOLUTION (2010) by Lynn Hershman Leeson

Documentation: 2010, 83′, OV Regie: Lynn Hershman Leeson

5. Dezember 2024, 19 Uhr Mit einer Einführung von Elke Kania Sowie Drinks und Snacks. Die Ausstellungen sind von 18 bis 22 Uhr geöffnet. Eintritt frei.

Julia Stoschek Foundation Schanzenstrasse 54, 40549 Düsseldorf

Mit ihrem Dokumentarfilm !Women Art Revolution (2010) würdigt Lynn Hershman Leeson die Frauen, die seit den 1960er Jahren die Kunstwelt geprägt und verändert haben. Der Titel verweist auf das Kollektiv Women Artists in Revolution (WAR), das sich gegen geschlechtsspezifische Diskriminierung im Kunstbetrieb engagierte. Interviews und Filmausschnitte, die sie über Jahrzehnte…

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MUSEO IRREVERENTES: “Blue Angel” (1987)

Miriam Schapiro (1923-2015)Acrílico sobre lienzo72 cm x 80 cm

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Miriam Schapiro

Mother and Child (1959)

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Miriam Schapiro, Dollhouse, 1972, wood and mixed media, overall: 79 3⁄4 x 82 x 8 1⁄2 in. (202.6 x 208.3 x 21.6 cm.), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase through the Gene Davis Memorial Fund

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Miriam Schapiro (1923-2015) A Garden in Paradise, 1982 64 x 69 inches acrylic and fabric on canvas.

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Radical Software: Women, Art & Computing 1960-1991, Mudam Luxembourg – Musée d'Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean / Kunsthalle Wien / Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz König, 2024

Artists: Rebecca Allen, Elena Asins, Colette Stuebe Bangert & Charles Jeffries Bangert, Gretchen Bender, Gudrun Bielz & Ruth Schnell, Dara Birnbaum, Inge Borchardt, Barbara Buckner, Doris Chase, Analívia Cordeiro, Betty Danon, Hanne Darboven, Bia Davou, Agnes Denes, VALIE EXPORT, Anna Bella Geiger, Isa Genzken, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Lily Greenham, Samia Halaby, Barbara Hammer, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Grace C. Hertlein, Channa Horwitz, Irma Hünerfauth, Charlotte Johannesson, Alison Knowles, Beryl Korot, Katalin Ladik, Ruth Leavitt, Liliane Lijn, Vera Molnár, Monique Nahas & Hervé Huitric, Katherine Nash, Sonya Rapoport, Deborah Remington, Sylvia Roubaud, Miriam Schapiro, Lillian Schwartz, Sonia Sheridan, Nina Sobell, Barbara T. Smith, Tamiko Thiel, Rosemarie Trockel, Joan Truckenbrod, Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven, Ulla Wiggen

Contributors: Laura Amann, Sarah Beaumont, Michelle Cotton, Rhea Dall, Ramona Heinlein, Hannah Marynissen, Astrid Peterle, Carlotta Pierleoni, Andrea Popelka, Clémentine Proby, Tina Rivers Ryan, Margit Rosen, Jade Saber, Bettina Steinbrügge

Graphic Design: A Practice For Everyday Life

Exhibitions: Mudam Luxembourg – Musée d'Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, September 20, 2024 – February 2, 2025; Kunsthalle Wien, Wien, February 28 – May 25, 2025

Curators: Michelle Cotton, assisted by Sarah Beaumont

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Miriam Schapiro