Xx Chromosocial

Women's Art of Renewal: Carrie Mae Weems, Vanessa Beecroft, Sharon Lockhart, Catherine Opie and Lisa Yuskavage

G. Roger Denson | Posted 10.24.2011

Read More: Feminist Art, Homosocial, Gender Codes, Sharon Lockhart, Patriarchy, Female Homosocial, XX Chromosocial, Lisa Yuskavage, Mother-Daughter, Sexual Codes, Feminist Photography, Vanessa Beecroft, Carrie Mae Weems, Lesbians, Lesbian Families, Catherine Opie, Matriarchy, Arts News
G. Roger Denson

2011-08-23-Screenshot20110823at7.07.12PM.jpg Art long outlives the institutions and ideologies it is made to service.

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Gender as Performance & Script: Reading the Art of Yvonne Rainer, Cindy Sherman, Sarah Charlesworth & Lorna Simpson After Eve Sedgwick & Judith Butler

G. Roger Denson | Posted 08.09.2011

Read More: Feminist Art, Homosocial, Judith Butler, XX Chromosocial, Sarah Charlesworth, Cindy Sherman, Arts, LGBT Art, Lorna Simpson, Yvonne Rainer, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Arts News
G. Roger Denson

Gender and sexuality are becoming ever more mutable for the progressive and cosmopolitan global nomad -- that small but growing breed of iconoclast, be s/he biologically male, female or in between.

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XX Chromosocial: Women Artists Cross The Homosocial Divide

G. Roger Denson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Kathryn Bigelow, Deepa Mehta, Kiki Smith, Shahzia Sikander, Lesbian, Cindy Sherman, Arts, Jenny Saville, Homosocial-Divide, Deborah Kass, Nancy Spero, Lisa Yuskavage, Marina Abramovic, Laila Essaydi, Janine Antoni, Sherrie Levine, Nan Goldin, Yvonne Rainer, Rape, Shirin Neshat, Angela Ellsworth, Eve Sussman, Catherine Opie, Gender, Ana Mendieta, Collier Schorr, Sue Williams, Sharon Lockhart, XX Chromosocial, Mariko Mori, Sarah Charlesworth, Vanessa Beecroft, Carrie Mae Weems, Women Who Write Mad Men, Lorna Simpson, Claudia Hart, Judith Butler, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Kara Walker, Arts News
G. Roger Denson

The rise of feminism corresponds roughly with the expansion of the artworld to include women's production. This is a history that began predominantly in impelling women's art as an expression of the identification of women apart from men.

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