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5 Women Artists You Should Know: Vol. 2

August 5, 2009 By Wendy Campbell

waring_anne1.  Laura Wheeler Waring – May 16, 1887 – Feb. 3, 1948: Born in Hartford, Connecticut, Waring attended the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, graduating in 1914. Waring was awarded the Cresson Traveling  Scholarship and studied Expressionism and Romanticism at the Academie de la Grande Chaumiere in Paris.

Much of Waring’s work was focused on portraiture though she also painted still life and landscapes.  She was among the first artists displayed in the United State’s first all African American art exhibit that was held in 1927 by the Harmon Foundation – an organization that promoted the work of African American artists, writers, educators and scientists. In 1943, the Harmon Foundation commissioned Waring to paint the series “Portraits of Outstanding American Citizens of Negro Origin”, which included W.E.B. DuBois, George Washington Carver, Marian Anderson, and James Weldon Johnson.

From the late 1920’s until her death in 1948, Warren worked as an art instructor and director of the art and music departments at Pennsylvania’s Cheyney State Teachers College (now Cheyney University).

Georgia Okeeffe-Music-Pink and Blue ii-1919

2. Georgia O’keeffe – Nov 15, 1887 – March 6, 1986: Considered to be a pioneer of American modernism, O’keeffe was born in Wisconsin and studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1905 and at the Art Students League in New York in 1907.

From 1908-1910, O’keeffe worked as a commercial artist in Chicago for a few years and then moved to Charlottesville in 1910 with her family, where she studied drawing at the University of Virginia. In the following eight years, O’Keeffe studied art and art education, taught art, traveled, and worked on developing her unique style – a blend of symbolism, abstraction, and photography with subjects including cityscapes, landscapes, figure studies, and flower paintings.

After 1929, O’keeffe she spent most summers painting in New Mexico and moved there permanently in 1949. She worked in pencil and watercolor until 1982 and then in clay from the mid-1970s to 1984 due to her failed eyesight. O’keeffe received numerous awards, including the American Medal of Freedom and the National Medal of Arts.

Bacchus-3-1978-Elaine-de-Kooning3.  Elaine Fried de Kooning – March 12, 1918 – Feb. 1, 1989: Born in Brooklyn, NY, de Kooning was a successful painter, sculptor, draughtswoman, printmaker, writer, and wife of fellow artist Willem de Kooning. She studied in New York at the Leonardo da Vinci Art School, the American Art School, the Academy school, and with Willem de Kooning.

De Kooning was interested in both figurative and abstract art, acknowledging the influence of her husband and of the Abstract Expressionists of the New York School. Her first solo exhibition occurred at the Stable Gallery in New York in 1952 and she presented almost annually at numerous institutional and commercial galleries throughout the United States.

Portraits were an important part of De Kooning’s output, though she never considered them to her main focus as a painter. When producing portraits, she worked on several canvases at the same time, creating three or more versions of the same portrait.

While her artistic reputation was somewhat overshadowed by her husband’s fame, de Kooning was able to establish a name as an artist and as an art critic. As well, she taught at numerous institutions including Bard College, University of Georgia, University of Pennsylvania, University of California at Davis, in New York at the Cooper Union, Parsons School of Design, and Pratt Institute, and others.

Spider - Louise Bourgeois4. Louise Bourgeois – December 25, 1911: Born in Paris, Bourgeois is perhaps best known for her spider sculptures titled “Maman”. She initially studied mathematics at the Sorbonne in 1932 but left to study art instead. In the mid to late 1930s, she studied at the École des Beaux-Arts, Académie de la Grande-Chaumière, École du Louvre, Atelier Fernand Léger, and other schools in Paris.

Bourgeois married American art historian Robert Goldwater, and in 1938, moved to New York where she studied for two years at the Art Students League. Bourgeois began her career as a painter and engraver, turning to wood sculpture in the late 1940’s.

In the mid 1950’s Bourgeois’ artwork explored issues such as internal distress, fear, vulnerability, and loss of control. She worked with bronze, plaster, and marble, and her previous rigid, upright sculptures evolved into smooth, organic shapes. In the 1960’s Bourgeois’ works became larger and were executed in bronze, carved stone, and rubber latex. During this time, she explored relationships between men and women in her artwork which became more sexually explicit.

Bourgeois’s achievements have been recognized with numerous honours and awards including National Medal of Arts and a grand prize in sculpture from the French Ministry Culture.  She died on May 31, 2010 – creating artwork until her death.

Market-at-Minho - Sonia Delaunay-19155.  Sonia Delaunay – Nov. 14, 1885 – Dec. 5, 1979: Born Sarah Stern (nicknamed Sonia), in the Ukraine, Delaunay moved to St. Petersburg at the age of five to live with a wealthy uncle, taking his surname, Terk. She studied art in Karlsruhe, Germany and in Paris in 1905, where she would live most of her life.

Delaunay married French painter Robert Delaunay with whom she had a son, Charles. Both Sonia and Robert developed an offshoot of cubism known as Orphism (aka Simultaneism). Orphism was similar to cubism in its abstraction but was based on the real world and used bright colours and repeating patterns similar in some aspects to Russian folk art.

Delaunay was a prolific artist working in many mediums. Throughout her career, she created paintings as well as public murals, theatrical, graphic, fashion, and interior designs, and designs for playing cards, ceramics, mosaics, and stained glass.

Delaunay received numerous awards for her work and in 1964 became the first living female artist to have a retrospective exhibition at the Louvre. In 1975 she was named an officer of the French Legion of Honor.

***Read the first installment of 5 Women Artists You Should Know***

Sources: PBS, Georgia O’Keeffe Museum,  National Academy Museum and School of Fine Arts, Guggenheim, National Museum of Women in the Arts

Filed Under: 5 Women Artists Series, ART, Art History, Sculpture, Women in Visual Arts Tagged With: Elaine Fried de Kooning, Georgia O'keeffe, Laura Wheeler Waring, Louise Bourgeois, Sonia Delaunay

Lesley-Anne Green: Odd Dolls

August 1, 2009 By Wendy Campbell

Lesley Anne Green - Ceramics

For some reason, I am drawn to strange and slightly creepy dolls.  The creatures featured in this post are by artist Lesley-Anne Green. Born in Huntsville, Ontario, Canada, Green moved to Toronto to attend Sheridan College’s Ceramics Program. After graduating, she took what she’d learned about clay and pots and started making one-of-a-kind clay sculptures and dolls.

Green currently lives and works in Toronto, and shares her home/studio with her cartoonist husband Jeff Lemire and their three cats.  Her work has been exhibited in Toronto, Santa Fe, Seattle, and Berlin.

To see more of Lesley-Anne Green’s strangely wonderful creations visit lesleyannegreen.blogspot.com.

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Filed Under: ART, Sculpture, Women in Visual Arts Tagged With: Art Dolls, Canadian Art, Lesley-Anne Green

Eli Tiunine: Escargot

July 26, 2009 By Wendy Campbell

Sunday’s image is “Retable “L’Europe”: Escargot” by Polish born artist Eli Tiunine.  To see more of her incredible work visit EliTiunine.com.

© Eli Tiunine

Filed Under: ART, Women in Visual Arts Tagged With: Eli Tiunine, Polish Art

Heidi Taillefer: Creative Fusion

July 16, 2009 By Wendy Campbell

Complicated Shadows © Heidi Taillefer

Born in Montreal, Canada, Heidi Taillefer began drawing at the age of 3, and was brought up in a family rich in creative talent. Always attracted to the bizarre and unusual, she was fascinated by strange animal specimens and haunting turn of the century side show oddities. As a child she continued her pursuit with ten years of private art lessons, where she developed skills in watercolor painting. Taillefer has been influenced by a number of sources such as nature and quirky thrift shop objects and obscurities. She is also influenced by all manners of artistic genres from surrealism to the abstract.

Taillefer’s tastes range from the ridiculous and the absurd to the sacred and sublime. She pursues the deeper meaning of things while possessing a strong sense of humor. Taillefer paints mostly about philosophical observations on life, which are drawn out of personal experience, and parlayed into an exploration of more universal issues.

Taillefer’s work has appeared in numerous publications, and on the covers of various books and magazines. In 1999, she created the internationally recognized image of Dralion for the Cirque du Soleil. Taillefer has exhibited her paintings across North America, most recently at the Joshua Liner Gallery in New York, and Irvine Contemporary in Washington, DC.

To find out more, visit HeidiTaillefer.com.

 © Heidi Taillefer Seeds of Doubt © Heidi Taillefer hemoglobin

Sources: Thompson Landry, Joshua Liner Gallery, Montreal Mirror

Filed Under: ART, Women in Visual Arts Tagged With: Canadian Art, Heidi Taillefer

5 Women Artists You Should Know

July 2, 2009 By Wendy Campbell

Frida Kahlo - The Broken Column1. Frida Kahlo – July 6, 1907 – July 13, 1954. Born in  Coyoacán, Mexico, Kahlo survived many difficult events in her life. She began to paint while recovering in bed from a bus accident in 1925 that left her disabled. Although she made a partial recovery, she was never able to bear  children, had numerous miscarriages, and underwent 32 operations before her death. Her paintings, mostly self-portraits, deal directly with her health and physical challenges. Kahlo was influenced by indigenous cultures of Mexico and European influences including Realism, Symbolism, and Surrealism.

Kahlo’s work was not widely recognized until years after her death. She was often remembered only as artist Diego Rivera’s wife. It was not until the early 1980s, when the artistic movement in Mexico known as Neomexicanismo began, that she became very prominent.

The Child's Bath - Mary Cassatt2. Mary Cassatt – May 22, 1844 – June 14, 1926. Known for her depictions of women and children, Cassatt was one of the few active American artists in 19th century French avant-garde. The daughter of a prominent Pittsburgh family, she studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia. She traveled throughout Europe,  settling permanently in Paris in 1874. In that year she exhibited at the Salon and in 1877 met Degas, with whom she maintained a close relationship. His art and ideas had a strong influence on her own work though she did not imitate his style. He introduced her to the Impressionists and she participated in several exhibitions between 1879 – 1886.

While in France, Cassatt sent paintings back to exhibitions in the United States that were among the first impressionist works seen in the US. By advising wealthy American patrons on acquisitions, she also played a vital role in forming some of the most important collections of impressionist art in America.

Blunden Harbour - Emily Carr3. Emily Carr – December 13, 1871 – March 2, 1945. Born in Victoria, British Columbia, Carr moved to San Francisco in 1890 to study art after the death of her parents. In 1899 she traveled to England to study at the Westminster School of Art in London and other studio schools in England. In 1910, she spent a year studying art at the Académie Colarossi in Paris, France before moving back to British Columbia permanently.

Carr was strongly influenced by the landscape and First Nations cultures of British Columbia and Alaska. She did not receive recognition as an artist until she was 57 years of age.  In the 1920s she came into close contact with members of the prominent Group of Seven (artists) after being invited by the National Gallery of Canada to participate in an exhibition of Canadian West Coast Art, Native and Modern. She maintained a close relationship with the group and was included in their exhibitions.

Emily Carr is a Canadian icon.  The fact that she was a woman challenged by the obstacles that faced women of her day, to become an artist of such originality and strength has made her a “darling of the Women’s Movement”.

John Lennon and Yoko Ono - Annie Leibovitz4. Annie Leibovitz – October 2, 1949 – present.  Born in 1949 in Connecticut, USA Leibovitz studied painting at the San Francisco Art Institute. She became interested in photography  when she lived in the Philippines, where her father was stationed during the Vietnam War with the Air Force.

Leibovitz began photographing for Rolling Stone magazine in 1969 while still a student in San Francisco. Famous for her iconic images of celebrities, including John Lennon and Yoko Ono, in 1983 she became chief photographer for Vanity Fair. A regular contributor to Vogue as well, she is the winner of numerous awards and her work has been exhibited around the world. In addition to her portraiture, she has also photographed battered women, and the conflicts in Sarajevo, Bosnia, and Rwanda. In 2005, American Photo named her the single most influential photographer working today.

Early Skating - Anna Mary Robertson Moses5. Anna Mary Robertson Moses – September 7, 1860 – December 13, 1961. Born in a farming community in Greenwich, N. Y, “Grandma Moses” began painting in her seventies after leaving a career in embroidery due to arthritis. A self-taught, renowned folk artist, Moses painted mostly scenes of rural life. In the years directly after World-War-II, Moses was one of the most successful and famous artists in America, and possibly the best known American artist in Europe.

Her simple realism and nostalgic subject matter with which she portrayed farm life and the rural countryside, gained her a large following. She was a prolific painter and during her lifetime she created more than 1,000 paintings.  Moses received honorary doctoral degrees from Russell Sage College in 1949 and from the Moore Institute of Art, Science and Industry, Philadelphia, in 1951.

Sources: MOMA, Wikipedia, National Gallery of Art, Webmuseum Paris, Canadian Encyclopedia, Art History Archive, Contact Press Images, Wikipedia, New York Times

Filed Under: 5 Women Artists Series, ART, Women in Visual Arts Tagged With: Anna Mary Robertson Moses, Annie Leibovitz, Emily Carr, Frida Kahlo, Grandma Moses, Mary Cassatt

Esther Barend: Spontaneous Art

June 29, 2009 By Wendy Campbell

Sea of Love © Esther Barend

Sea of Love © Esther Barend

I love StumbleUpon.  With the endless amount of information on the net, how else could I have come across the wonderful abstract paintings of Esther Barend.

Barend was born to an artistic family in Eindhoven, in the south country of The Netherlands. After finishing her studies, she worked and lived in Paris and Amsterdam and  established herself as a jewelery designer. Several years later she studied at the Academy of Arts in Arendonk, Belgium, where she developed her unique style of painting.

Barends paintings are mostly autobiographical in nature. She is inspired by her rich and complex inner world, by her current emotions, and by contemporary events. Influenced by the free expression of artists such as Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, and Gerhard Richter, Barend’s paintings are characterized by spontaneity, dynamics, details and intense colours. “Standing in front of a white canvas,” says Barend, “, I follow my feelings. Often I start with a few lines or forms of my imagination. The colours are mixed on the canvas and I work with a lot of layers, thin and thick, which causes a beautiful raw structure. By mixing invented and spontaneous forms the result is well-balanced.”

Producing mainly abstracts, Barend works with acrylic paint combined with glue, charcoal, pieces of pastel chalk, paper, sand and other materials to create paintings that come to life with vibrant colour, contrast, energy, and movement, that keeps the viewer looking.

To see more of Esther Barend’s work, visit EstherBarend.eu.

The Tide of Events © Esther Barend The Love Within © Esther Barend Happiness © Esther Barend

All images are copyright © Esther Barend

Sources: Esther Barend, Babel Art


Filed Under: ART, Women in Visual Arts Tagged With: abstract-art

Hopewalls: iNeedChemicalX (Felicia)

June 28, 2009 By Wendy Campbell

It’s raining again and I was looking for a little something to boost my spirits when I came across this photo by Deviant artist iNeedChemicalX (aka Felicia). Check out more fantastic work by this young Romanian artist on Deviant Art.

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Hopewalls © iNeedChemicalX (Felicia)

Filed Under: ART, Photography, Women in Visual Arts

Lisa Falzon: Digital Collage

June 12, 2009 By Wendy Campbell

The Hive and the Honey Bee © Lisa Falzon

The Hive and the Honey Bee © Lisa Falzon

This week’s Deviant is 26 year old surreal artist Lisa Falzon.  Born and rasied in Malta, the self-taught artist currently lives in Cork, Ireland.

Most of Falzon’s work is digitally assembled in Photoshop though she also works with oils and acrylics. Her creations are a mix of small photo parts that are cut out then combined and airbrushed to create a unique merger of painting and collage.

Falzon’s work has extended to book covers, CD art, children’s book illustrations, and  advertising. She also plans to try her hand at comics in the near future.

If that isn’t enough, Falzon is also a writer and her first novel, ‘Xi Mkien Iehor’ was published in 2008 by Merlin, Ltd. in Malta. She also has a micro-fiction blog where you will find her wonderful stories that are exactly 50 words long.

To see more of Lisa Falzon’s work visit LisaFalzon.com or view her profile on Deviant Art.  Follow this link to see just how she makes her compelling digital collages.

The Constant Gardener © Lisa Falzon

The Constant Gardener © Lisa Falzon

Filed Under: ART, Collage, Deviant Art, Digital, Women in Visual Arts

From Somewhere Else: Julia Rohwedder

June 5, 2009 By Wendy Campbell

This week, I am taking Friday off instead of Sunday. So here is your “Sunday” image by German artist Julia Rohwedder. I’ve admired this piece for quite some time. It’s hard to believe Julia is only 18 years old. You can view more of her work on Deviant Art.  Enjoy!

From Somewhere Else © Julia Rohwedder

From Somewhere Else © Julia Rohwedder

Filed Under: ART, Digital, Photography, Women in Visual Arts

Sara Tyson: Illustration

June 4, 2009 By Wendy Campbell

A Few Horrible Ways to get out of your Car Lease © Sara TysonI’ve been stumbling again.  This week I came across the illustrations of artist and fellow Canadian Sara Tyson.  Tyson studied at the Ontario College of Art and has had a successful career for over twenty years, creating images for major publications such as Harvard Business Review, The Washington Post, The Globe & Mail, and Reader’s Digest.

Tyson is inspired by early Christian and byzantine art as well as 20th century painting.  Also a graphic designer, Tyson’s images tend to be highly organized with space, shape, contrast and colour all playing important parts in the composition of her drawings.

Tyson has won numerous awards for her illustrations from Applied Arts Magazine, Canadian Business Press, and the Society of Illustrators (NYC and LA) to name a few.

As an artist and graphic designer, it’s great to discover successful women artists. It’s encouraging and inspiring.  However, scanning through my list of previous posts, I realize that most of my artist profiles are of men.  I wondered if my art preferences simply led me to male dominated genres (abstraction, surrealism) or if there was something deeper going on.  Discovering Sara Tyson’s work will definitely remind me to think more about my post choices and make a conscious effort to feature more women artists, past and present.

To find out more about Sara Tylson, visit SaraTyson.com.

Old Dogs New Tricks © Sara Tyson

Old Dogs New Tricks © Sara Tyson

Filed Under: ART, Illustration, Women in Visual Arts

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