Artist Bios
- Artist Bios
Shana Agid is an artist/designer, teacher, writer, and activist whose work focuses on relationships of power and difference, particularly regarding sexuality, race, and gender in visual and political cultures. She can be reached at agids@newschool.edu.
Angela Brennan, a Melbourne-based artist, is best known for high-key abstractions, text paintings, portraits, and more recently, ceramics. Here she combines text, ceramic, and photograph. She can be reached at angebre518@gmail.com.
FEMMO™ is an ongoing collaboration between Australian artists Virginia Fraser and Elvis Richardson. Virginia Fraser is a writer and former journalist who works mainly in light-based media, installation, and text. Elvis Richardson makes text, sculptural, and photographic works and is the founding editor of CoUNTess, tracking gender representation in Australian art. They can be reached at fraservirginia@yahoo.com.au and elvis@elvisrichardson.com.
Agatha Gothe-Snape, a Sydney-based artist, works with performance, power point shows, workshops, and texts, including correspondence, short poetic texts, and headlines—both found and invented. The image and text are combined into visual scores, or, as here, text is visually modified. Working collaboratively, she produces art objects. She can be reached at agathajane@hotmail.com.
The Guerrilla Girls are a collective of anonymous feminist activist artists. They wear gorilla masks in public and use facts, humor, and outrageous visuals to expose gender and ethnic bias as well as corruption in politics, art, film, and pop culture. They can be reached at zubeidaagha@guerrillagirls.com.
Melbourne-based artist Katherine Hattam—who works with color across collage, painting, and, printmaking—explores the unsettling space between the internal and external worlds. Her work is informed by literature, psychoanalysis, and feminism. She can be reached at kathattam@gmail.com.
Jess Johnson works at the intersection of language, science fiction, culture, and technology. Limiting herself to pen and felt-tipped markers, she depicts complex worlds that combine densely layered patterns, objects, and figures within architectural settings. Collaborating with Simon Ward, she creates 3D digital works of her images. She lives and works in New York City and can be reached at jess@jessjohnson.org.
Ellen Koshland works in photography, installation, and word-events. She lives in Melbourne, Australia, having moved there from the United States in 1973. She is founder and director of The Poet's Voice, and her interest in poetry underpins her visual work. She can be reached at ellenkoshland@bigpond.com. [End Page 225]
Clare Rae's photographic work is informed by feminist theory and presents an alternate and often awkward experience of subjectivity and the female body, usually the artist's own. Her performative practice often engages with architectural and other sites, using the body to articulate space. She can be reached at contact@clarerae.com.
Macushla Robinson is a writer and curator based in New York. Formerly assistant curator at the Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia, she is currently pursuing her PhD in politics at The New School.
Dread Scott first received national attention in 1989 when his art became the center of controversy over its use of the American flag while he was a student at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He works in a range of media including performance, photography, installation, screen printing, and video. He can be reached at info@dreadscott.net.
Engaging with the feminist tradition of collage—cutting as drawing—painting, textiles, screen printing, and photography, Sally Smart creates theatrical installations that employ a cinematic visual style. Her installations explore corporeality, gender, and identity politics. She can be reached at sally.smart@bigpond.com.
Sable Elyse Smith is an interdisciplinary artist and writer based in New York. Her practice considers memory and trauma while enacting an undoing of language. She works from the archive of her own body, creating new syntax for knowing and not knowing. She can be reached at smits234@newschool.edu.
Natalie Thomas is a Melbourne-based artist. Through her artwork and influential blog, she has maintained a diverse, independent feminist practice focusing on media, issues of authenticity, and methodologies of collaboration. She can be reached at natleanne@hotmail.com.
Cecilia Vicuña is a poet, artist, filmmaker, and activist. Her work addresses...
