Photos By Gail
Andi LaVine Arnovitz (b. 1959) transformed her wedding dress, handmade by her grandmother, into the sculpture What We Bring (2023). Thousands of laser-cut women’s names – all 2,611 entries found on the Jewish women’s archive website at the time of making – fill the space that the artist’s body once occupied and spill out to form a teeming train.
Photo By Gail
In Because Every Hair is Different (2005), Marlene Haring explores hair as a physical marker of femininity and desirability. Embodying the notion that long, fine blonde hair is the quintessence of Eurocentric (or white supremacist) feminine beauty standards to its extreme, Haring transforms herself into a surrealistic figure covered in flowing extensions. The abundant hair not only obscures the sitter, but also alludes to the continual investment of time and money to haircare and appearance demanded by popular beauty standards.
Photographed in The Brooklyn Museum
On our way to last night’s opening reception at Bold Hype on West 27th Street, we came upon the collaborative art duo known as Pink Assignment (Mariangeles Soto-Diaz and Claudia Sbrissa) who were putting up an installation of hot pink satin ribbons tied in web-like fashion between the support poles of a sidewalk construction overhang. We stopped to say Hello.
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