Installation shot of Galerie Lelong's Ana Mendieta retrospective (image from galerielelong.com) We’re approaching a pivotal point in the progress of performance art in which the once rogue medium is ...
Ana Tereza Fernández, “Erasure 1 (performance documentation) (detail)” (2016), oil on canvas, 72 x 98 inches (courtesy the artist and Gallery Wendi Norris, San Francisco) Because of the mysterious ...
This major exhibition provides a survey of the Cuban-born artist Ana Mendieta's career from 1972 until her untimely death in New York in 1985. Mendieta (1948 - 1985) is celebrated for using her body ...
IOWA CITY - Friends of Ana Mendieta (FoAM) group is launching a website and historical tours of the Iowa City-area sites where the famous feminist performance artist Ana Mendieta worked for more than ...
1. Sweating Blood, November 1973 2. Blood Writing, February 1974 3. Body Tracks, March 1974 4. Burial Pyramid, Summer 1974 5. Untitled, Summer 1974 6. Flower Silueta No. 2, June 1975 7. Alma Silueta ...
Ana Mendieta’s art was sometimes violent, often unapologetically feminist and usually raw. She effortlessly incorporated unusual natural materials like blood, dirt, water and fire, and displayed her ...
Ana Mendieta is widely regarded as among the most original and talented artists of the postwar era. She produced a stunning body of work that drew together the most important innovations of her moment ...
In the 1960s, she invited an audience to cut off her clothes. As attacks on women’s rights escalate, “Cut Piece” and other decades-old works of feminist art feel more relevant than ever. By Amanda ...