explinations. interests. wants

I am receiving my associates in Fine Arts by the end of this year (spring 2010) so I decided to focus on lesbian art and artists. Lesbian history has not really been documented and established considering that history was mainly documented by white men because they were in power as women as well as non-Caucasians were being oppressed. As women fight their way into the art world, and even better having them be lesbian or represent lesbians is something well worth noting and being a part of our history. Woman's sexuality is just as important and we should be able to express that ( and not just women sexuality but heterosexuality.) As an art student myself I often turn to my creative side to express my feelings as well as many of the artists that I have and will be blogging about. Women dealing with lesbian issues and within that issues dealing with substance abuse, oppression, gender identification and so on. Art not only helps one express their feelings, but it brings people together as it did for many lesbians. And although most of my research is done on art such as painting, illustrations, performance and other fine arts, art also has to do with self expression and how you identify yourself and the art of writting and talking and coming together.

As far as suprising, I really just have come across a lot of amazing artists. It's great to capture a persons feelings through their artwork. You can sort of tell and understand where they are coming from through pictures, and just reading about the artist always helps. Some of the art is somewhat shocking, but not too much. Such as Jess Dobkin, She is a performance artist if you haven't read about her yet. She takes the woman's body and uses it in a very humerus and shocking manner. I'm sure you will be able to run across some of her videos, but she has performances such as having a car drive in front of her vagina and pulling little tampon like people from strings out of it.

I would really just like to learn more and see more work of each artist. I have really been enjoying "Dykes to Watch Out for" and I have really been getting interested in graphic novels so it would be nice to do some research on that on my own and get to reading some of them such as 'Hothead Paisan.' Also local events that have to do with the art world and the GLBT community.