User:Melanieherb/gap analysis

Gap analysis

 * What is the title of the article in which you identified a gap. If no article exists at all, what should the title be?

Feminist Art


 * Document the gap you found, describe how you identified it, and analyze its impact on knowledge.

In doing research and studying for this class's midterm and first paper, I found myself on the Feminist Art/ Feminist Art movement pages quite often as a resource. After learning about different artists in the class thus far, and learning more how the “feminist art movement” has been put at a singular place in time. My perception of feminist art and what feminist art is has broadened, just as feminist art is still being produced today and is evolving. I was shocked that during my last look at the Feminist Art page before the midterm, that the page has sections for 1960’s, 1970’s, and 1980’s, but stops after the 80’s. The page goes into no further information for art past that decade, and only starts at the 60’s. As well as including mostly all information on U.S based white female artists such as Judy Chicago, Hannah Wilke, and the Guerilla Girls. The gap in feminist art history from the 1990’s to the present should be filled with information of artists such as the ones we have discussed in class. In my edit of this gap I will add a section for 1990 - 2010, briefly discussing the work of Shahzia Sikander and Zanele Muholi. Though I will not have enough time or space to add all important information to the gap, it should be completed up until present day. I would also suggest that future edits to the page should create a more global perspective. As we have learned in class, “Feminist Art” did not start and end with white women of the U.S in the 70’s as the Tate would show.
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The concept of global feminism in the 1990s addressed the “common difference” between women from various cultures, nations, religions, ethnicities, and sexualities (Reilly, 31). Since the 90’s the works of women artists advance visions that cross boundaries and look beyond gender differences. Artists have been working in diverse media including installation, performance, video work, and site-specific sculpture, breaking boundaries between fine and visual arts (Andrews, 21).Shahzia Sikander is an example of an artist working across different media, and has been exhibiting since the mid 90’s. Sikander is a Pakistani artist who works in drawing, painting, animation, large-scale installation, performance and video. Sikander specializes in Indian and Persian miniature painting, a traditional style that is both highly stylized and disciplined which she transported into the realm of contemporary art (Sikander, 3). In what she labeled performances, Sikander experimented with wearing a veil in public, something she never did before moving to the United States. Utilizing performance and various media and formats to investigate issues of border crossing, she seeks to subvert stereotypes of the East and, in particular, the Eastern Pakistani woman (Sikander, 6).

Artists such as Zanele Muholi, a South African photographer based in Johannesburg, are transnational in their process and art. She sees herself as a visual activist whose role is to reverse the African LGBTI lives in a public space...her approach is both intensely personal and multilayered (Baderoon, 402). Muholi has been exhibiting since 2004, and meshes her work in photography, video, and installation with human rights activism to create visibility for the black lesbian and transgender communities of South Africa (Zanele, 1).
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 * Andrews, Julia Frances., and Kuiyi Shen. The Art of Modern China. Berkeley: U of California, 2012. Print.
 * Baderoon, Gabeba. “"Gender Within Gender": Zanele Muholi's Images of Trans Being and Becoming”. Feminist Studies 37.2 (2011): 390–416. Print.
 * Reilly, Maura, and Linda Nochlin. Global Feminisms: New Directions in Contemporary Art. London: Merrell, 2007. Print.
 * Sikander, Shahzia. "SHAHZIA SIKANDER BIOGRAPHY." Shahzia Sikander. Web.
 * "Zanele Muholi: Isibonelo/Evidence." Brooklyn Museum. Web.