Hans Eijkelboom

Kara Walker

Kara Walker
"Negress Notes"
1996, Watercolor, ink and pencil on paper, 9 x 6 inches
Collection George Lindemann
Courtesy Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York

"My project is about many things...but it’s also about trying to examine what it is to be an African-American woman artist. It’s about how you make representations of your world, given what you’ve been given." - Kara Walker

"Cut"
1998
Cut paper and adhesive on wall, 7 feet 4 inches x 4 feet 6 inches
Collection of Donna and Cargill MacMillan
Courtesy Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York

Janine Antoni

Janine Antoni
"Lick and Lather"

Interview with Antoni
http://www.pbs.org/art21/artists/antoni/clip2.html

"I wanted to work with the tradition of self-portraiture but also with the classical bust...I had the idea that I would make a replica of myself in chocolate and in soap, and I would feed myself with my self, and wash myself with my self. Both the licking and the bathing are quite gentle and loving acts, but what’s interesting is that I’m slowly erasing myself through the process. So for me it’s about that conflict, that love/hate relationship we have with our physical appearance, and the problem I have with looking in the mirror and thinking, ‘Is that who I am?’"
- Janine Antoni

Identity

Identity: The condition of being oneself or itself, and not another.

My subject

This is my blog for the MAT graduate Seminar
I am interested in the subject of Identity and how ones identity influences the process of making art.