#guerrilla girls

[nobrashfestivity]

Guerrilla Girls 1991

[daily-contemporaryart]

Guerrilla Girls, Do women have to be naked…?, 1989.

[abwwia]

Guerrilla Girls

Guerrilla Girls is an anonymous group of feminist, female artists devoted to fighting sexism and racism within the art world.[1] The group formed in New York City in 1985 with the mission of bringing gender and racial inequality into focus within the greater arts community. The group employs culture jamming in the form of posters, books, billboards, and public appearances to expose discrimination and corruption. To remain anonymous, members don gorilla masks and use pseudonyms that refer to deceased female artists. According to GG1, identities are concealed because issues matter more than individual identities, "[M]ainly, we wanted the focus to be on the issues, not on our personalities or our own work." (from Wikipedia)

[weltandschaung]

Do Women Have to Be Naked to Get Into the Met. Museum ? (1989 - 2012 [update]) Guerrilla Girls

Guerrilla Girls' Pop Quiz by Guerrilla Girls (1990)

[justreminiscing]

Guerrilla Girls, 'The Advantages Of Being A Woman Artist' poster, 1988

[oncanvas]

These galleries show no more than 10% women artists or none at all, Guerrilla Girls, 1985

Offset laser or inkjet print poster 17 x 21 ¾ in. (43.18 x 55.24 cm) Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

[eucanthos]

Guerrilla Girls

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The Guerrilla Girls formed as a reaction to the 1984 exhibition International Survey of Painting and Sculpture at MoMA NY, in which work by women artists represented less than 10% of exhibition. In 1985, the group began a poster campaign targeting museums, galleries, curators, writers, and artists who they felt were either responsible for or complicit in the exclusion of women and non-white artists from mainstream exhibitions and publications. Since then, they have completed over 100 street projects, posters, and stickers around the world

https://www.nashersculpturecenter.org/art/collection#!/artcollection/f/detail/object/3210/6461?artist=guerrilla-girls&title=guerrilla-girls-portfolio-compleat-plus-upgrade-1985-2016-19852016

[phenomenologically]

Guerrilla Girls, 1992 - 1994 Projects

[sunlilys]

guerrilla girls. dearest art collector, 2015.

[bearyvv]

𝐂𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐝𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐨𝐝𝐚𝐲

[nobrashfestivity]

Guerrilla Girls

[daily-contemporaryart]

Guerrilla Girls, “What Do These Men Have in Common?” Offset print, 1995.

[abwwia]

Feminist art activists Guerrilla Girls: Photo by Gene Pittman, courtesy of the Walker Art Center

[fleurslivresetvie]

[ilovejoyjessie]

Hidden Figures #3 (Wandering Rocks by Tony Smith) || V.

And honestly, that rebellion also felt fitting to the underlying story of Hidden Figures: Fighting back against the two-faced story that the city sometimes tells, putting art out into the public but not wanting people to interact with it in a way that seems "different" from their expectation of what that interaction would be. Selfies with the sculptures - fine. But two skilled artists taking photos with them, one of them in a sheer get-up? Seems suspicious; seems disruptive; seems out of the box, out of the norm.

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And when I thought about it later, those shots where I posed outside of the boundaries tell their own story - art separated from other art; art being public but also being so private, experiencing it being more of a privilege than a right; feeling and being on the outside when all you want is to be in...the whole scenario was poetic in its own way and truly, Hidden Figures 3 is probably my favorite figure in the entire series.

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Guerrilla Girls, The Advantages of Being a Woman Artist (1988)