Girls' Night Out

by Armstrong, Elizabeth

• ISBN13: 9780917493362
• ISBN10: 0917493362
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-05-01
• Publisher: Distributed Art Pub Inc

Summary

Imagine a girls' night out with Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Elina Brotherus, Dorit Cypis, Rineke Dijkstra, Katy Grannan, Sarah Jones, Kelly Nipper, Daniela Rossell, Shirana Shahbazi, and Salla Tykka. Imagine a very particular kind of girl talk, one that crisscrosses generations and nations, that openly and fluidly recognizes gender differences and sexual necessities, that delves deeply into psychology and lyricism. A conversation that's moved beyond challenging or critiquing feminist archetypes--but knows how it got to that point, thank you early feminism. The women artists represented in this catalogue create works that possess a quasi-documentary feel and a directness of approach, that engage such classical representational subjects as landscape, portraiture, and self-portraiture. They acknowledge their predecessors, the feminist photography, film, and performance artists of the 70s and 80s, but have moved on to confidently explore feminist identity, especially in the adolescent girl, and produce imagery that is compellingly, and resoundingly, uncertain and contradictory.

Table of Contents

Sponsor's Statement	8	(1)
Foreword	9	(2)
Acknowledgments	11	(4)
Girl, Unmasked	15	(24)
Elizabeth Armstrong
Girl, Unmarked	39	(12)
Taru Elfving
Moving	51	(8)
Bill Horrigan
The Artists	59	(62)
Irene Hofmann
Eija-Liisa Ahtila	61	(6)
Elina Brotherus	67	(6)
Dorit Cypis	73	(6)
Rineke Dijkstra	79	(6)
Katy Grannan	85	(6)
Sarah Jones	91	(6)
Kelly Nipper	97	(6)
Daniela Rossell	103	(6)
Shirana Shahbazi	109	(6)
Salla Tykka	115	(6)
Checklist of the Exhibition	121	(6)
Artists' Biographies	127