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Moor

detail view

2001

creation

Janine Antoni (American, born 1964)

female

American sculptor, performance artist, installation artist and photographer. After studying in New York at the Sarah Lawrence College, she went to the Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, where she graduated with an MFA in 1989. Her first major work, Wean (1989–90; see 1995 exh. cat., pp. 6–7), consists of plaster impressions of one of the artist's breasts and nipples alongside impressions of latex nipples and their packaging. The themes of the absent body and the oral focus in the formation of identity are central to much of Antoni's work (see fig.). In one of her best-known works, Gnaw (1992; London, Saatchi Gal.), she chewed lumps out of two large cubes, one consisting of 600 pounds of chocolate and the other of 600 pounds of lard. From this she then made chocolate boxes in the shape of hearts from the chocolate and bright red lipsticks from the lard. The finished artworks come from the process of her private performance with the material, so that the work is focused upon the experience of the event, rather than on a final object. In an unusually public performance, Loving Care, staged at the Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London, in 1993, Antoni dipped her hair in hair dye and mopped the floor with it, in a gesture reminiscent of Nam June Paik's 1962 Zen for Head performance; by loading the action with connotations of femininity and domesticity, she twisted the heritage of performance art to her own ends. Later she made a series of Cibachrome photographs of her parents, for example Mom and Dad (1994; see 1995 exh. cat., pp. 33–9), in which she dressed them up in each other's clothes and applied make-up to their faces so that their identities were interchanged. (Grove Art Online Accessed 2001-02-06)

visiting artist, Visiting Artist Program 2012

21st century

Contemporary

objects

recycled products

births

balance

narrative (artistic device)

ropes

mothers

memory

sewing (process)

found objects

installations (visual works)

sculpture (visual works)

fiber art

sculptures and installations

materials donated by the artist's friends, such as "fur from Judy's cats, Jay and Dee; Melissa and Mom's leftover tassel cords from 'Unveiling'; Paoloa's chiffon scarf; Brian's green-flowered pillowcase; Meg's gold Mardi Gras beads," etc.

variable

private collection

owner

Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.). Art 21: Art in the Twenty-First Century 2. Ed. Susan Sollins & Marybeth Sollins. New York, N.Y: Abrams, 2003. Print.

0-8109-4609-2

82

ISBN

unknown

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© Janine Antoni

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