Artist explores many emotional dimensions of childbirth through collage project
Alumna Carmen Winant presented a Department of Art Visiting Artist Lecture at the Hammer Museum
Artist and writer Carmen Winant earned her B.A. from the UCLA Department of Art. She utilizes installation and collage strategies to examine feminist modes of survival and revolt. Winant’s recent projects have been shown at the Museum of Modern Art, the Sculpture Center, the Columbus Museum of Art, and the Wexner Center for the Arts. Winant has published two artist’s books—My Life as a Man and My Birth—and is the former dean of the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and the Roy Lichtenstein Chair of Studio Art at Ohio State University.
"Over two thousand childbirth photographs covered the walls of New York’s Museum of Modern Art in 2018.Society often depicts birth as agonizing and grotesque, but artist Carmen Winant aims to break the stigma through her collages. The alumna will give a talk at the Hammer Museum on Thursday discussing her artistic process, specifically in regards to her MoMA project, “My Birth.” She said she will speak about her journey as a collage artist and the reasons she was drawn to such unconventional subject matter.
“I wanted to explore projects that made me feel vulnerable but also artistically challenged,” she said. “Taking pictures of pictures can be beautiful, too.”"— Jordan Holman, May 23, 2019
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