Margaret "Peggy" Ahwesh (born 1954 in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania)[1] is an American experimental filmmaker and video artist. She received her B.F.A. at Antioch College. A true bricoleur, her tools include narrative and documentary styles, improvised performance and scripted dialogue, synch-sound film, found footage, digital animation, and crude Pixelvision
video. Her work is primarily an investigation cultural identity and the
role of the subject in various genres. Her interests include: women,
sexuality and feminism; genre; reenactment; artists' books. Her works
have been seen around with world in San Francisco, New York, Barcelona,
London, Toronto, Rodderdam, and Creteil, France.[2] Starting in 1990, she has taught at Bard College
as a Professor of Film and Electronic Arts. Her teaching interests
include: experimental media, history of the non-fiction film, and women
in film.[3]
Sunday 3 May 2015
A-Z: orla kiely
Orla Kiely is an Irish fashion designer based in London. She began her career designing hats, and moved on to design work on handbags and a variety of other items including kitchenware and cars. She received a Master's degree from the Royal College of Art. She worked with several companies before setting up her own business.
Kiely was described by The Guardian as "the Queen of Prints."[7] Her designs have been used for a variety of objects, including kitchenware,[8] stationery, furniture,[3] wallpaper,[1] and a range of Citroën DS3 cars. The cars feature Kiely's design work on the roofs, tailgate and a signature in the middle of the rear spoiler. The interior features pattern work on the carpet mats and on the seat headrests.[9]
She has also designed a refillable water bottle called the "Wottle", which is a collaboration with the water filter company Brita. The bottle features her green-stem design and is made from high-density polyethylene, a recyclable plastic material, and produced by a company in Suffolk.[10]
Her business operates out of a three-storey building in Clapham, South London, near her home. Her studio occupies the middle floor, chosen specifically because of the availability of light.[7]
Kiely was described by The Guardian as "the Queen of Prints."[7] Her designs have been used for a variety of objects, including kitchenware,[8] stationery, furniture,[3] wallpaper,[1] and a range of Citroën DS3 cars. The cars feature Kiely's design work on the roofs, tailgate and a signature in the middle of the rear spoiler. The interior features pattern work on the carpet mats and on the seat headrests.[9]
She has also designed a refillable water bottle called the "Wottle", which is a collaboration with the water filter company Brita. The bottle features her green-stem design and is made from high-density polyethylene, a recyclable plastic material, and produced by a company in Suffolk.[10]
Her business operates out of a three-storey building in Clapham, South London, near her home. Her studio occupies the middle floor, chosen specifically because of the availability of light.[7]
A-Z: georgia o'keeffe
Born near Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, O'Keeffe first came to the attention of the New York art community in 1916. She is best known for her paintings of enlarged flowers, New York skyscrapers, and New Mexico landscapes. O'Keeffe has been recognized as the "Mother of American modernism".[1]Early in 1916, Anita Pollitzer
took some of the charcoal drawings O'Keeffe had made in the fall of
1915, which she had mailed to Pollitzer from South Carolina, to Alfred Stieglitz at his 291 gallery. He told Pollitzer that the drawings were the "purest, finest, sincerest things that had entered 291 in a long while", and that he would like to show them. O'Keeffe had first visited 291
in 1908, but did not speak with Stieglitz then, although she came to
have high regard for him and to know him in the spring of 1916, when she
was in New York at Teachers College. In April 1916, he exhibited ten of her drawings at 291.[5]
Although O'Keeffe knew that Stieglitz was planning to exhibit her work,
he had not told her when, and she was surprised to learn that her work
was on view; she confronted Stieglitz over the drawings but agreed to
let them remain on exhibit. Stieglitz organized O'Keeffe's first solo
show at 291 in April 1917,[5] which included oil paintings and watercolors completed in Texas..
A-Z : Eija lissa ahitila
Eija-Liisa Ahtila (born 1959 in Hämeenlinna, Finland) is a video artist and photographer. She lives and works in Helsinki.
Her first conceptual works were motivated by art philosophy, by a critique of art institutions and by feminism. She focused on the construction of the image, language, narrative and space. In her recent films she focuses more deeply into individual identity and the limit of the self and body in relation to the other.[1]Most of Ahtila's works are focused on women going through a traumatic experience, and most display multiple screens and vantage points of the story, simultaneously. This mode of presentation intentionally floods or overwhelms the viewer's senses, sometimes confusing one's ability to follow and understand the narrative thread intellectually, in order to produce a strong emotional impact.
Her first conceptual works were motivated by art philosophy, by a critique of art institutions and by feminism. She focused on the construction of the image, language, narrative and space. In her recent films she focuses more deeply into individual identity and the limit of the self and body in relation to the other.[1]Most of Ahtila's works are focused on women going through a traumatic experience, and most display multiple screens and vantage points of the story, simultaneously. This mode of presentation intentionally floods or overwhelms the viewer's senses, sometimes confusing one's ability to follow and understand the narrative thread intellectually, in order to produce a strong emotional impact.
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