Race and Gender Key Issues

in Contemporary Feminist Art I

Kara Walker
(b Stockton, CA, 26 Nov 1969)

Insurrection! (Our Tools Were

Rudimentary, Yet We
Pressed On), 2000. Cut
paper silhouettes and light
projections, Dimensions vary
with installation. Solomon R.
Guggenheim Museum
Gone: An Historical
Romance of Civil War
As it Occurred
Between the Dusky
Thighs of Young
Negress and Her
Heart (1994
Installationview
Kara Walker,
1999
 Lubaina Himid
(b Zanzibar, 25 July 1954)

Five , Acrylic on
canvas, 4' x 5'
'Nilla' from
the series
'Naming
the Money'
by Lubaina
Himid
(2004)
 Maud Sulter
(b Glasgow, 17 Sept 1960)

Clio (Portrait of Dorothea

Smart), 1989, Dye destruction
print 122 x 153cm
Syrcas: Duval et Dumas
 Adrian Piper Gender and Identity
(b New York, 20 Sept 1948)

Hypothesis Situation #14, 1969

The Mythic Being, 1974–5
Pretend Not To Know, 1989 (three b/w photographs with silkscreen text, each 23" x 40")
Tracey (Karima) Emin
(b London, 3 July 1963)

Biography

Homage to Edward
Munch and All My
Dead Children, 1998
My Bed
1998

Everyone I Have Ever Slept with 1963–95,

1995
 Sarah Lucas
(b London, 23 Oct 1962)

Sex
Image
Identity
 The Fag Show
(London, Sadie Coles,
2000)

Human Toilet Revisited 1998

Bitch, 1994
table, melons, T-shirt,
vacuum-packed
smoked fish, 80 x 100
x 50 cm
Beyond the Pleasure Principle  2000
 Jenny Saville
(b Cambridge, 7 May 1970)

Plan, 1993, oil on canvas, 9' X 7'

Fulcrum, 1999, oil on canvas, 8 1/2' X 16'
 Vanessa Beecroft
(b Genoa, 25 April 1969)
VB39, 1999; exh. San Diego, CA,
Mus. Contemp. A
White Madonna with twins, 20
 Helen Chadwick
(b Croydon, 18 May
1953,
d London, 15 March
1996)

Cacao, 1994

Piss Flowers (bronze,

cellulose lacquer, 12 parts,
1991–2
 'Vanitas II')
by Helen Chadwick
cibachrome print, 1986
20 in. x 20 in

Helen Chadwick's 'In the Kitchen', c.1977

Jennifer Linton
(b. 1968 North Vancouver,
B.C., Canada)

A is for Anger — Alphabet Series.

2007. Coloured pencil on
illustration board. 9" x 12"
Salomé - 2002 Catholic Girls - 2005
 Lynda Benglis
(b Lake Charles, LA, 25 Oct 1941)

Artforum (November 1974)