‘Outsiders’ exhibit their art at Menil’s ‘NeoHooDoo’ Jul 8, 2008
So does performance artist Ana Mendieta. More highlights: Doris Salcedo s Atrabiliarios is a series of wall niches holding the shoes of murdered Columbian women. (Woodlands Villager, TX)
For Carl Andre, beauty is in the basics Nov 27, 2007
" With a tome-like r?sum? of exhibitions, Andre considers himself extraordinarily fortunate to have been affiliated with "not necessarily the most famous, but the best galleries" since the 1960s, including Tibor de Nagy and Paula Cooper in New York, Virginia Dwan in Los Angeles and New York, and Ace in Vancouver and Los Angeles. There's a dark chapter that he doesn't discuss -- a three-year period, 1985 to 1988, when he was indicted and finally acquitted of the murder of his wife, artist Ana... (Los Angeles Times)
Immodest proposals Oct 13, 2007
Something far more significant seems to be happening, something that lines her up with Ana Mendieta, for example. We might as well call the woman-shaped depressions Mendieta made in the ground when she was working, and even when she leaped out of a window to her death, self-portraits, as lump Woodman in with the self-publicists. (Guardian Unlimited)
At Wellesley's Davis Museum, 'Global Feminisms' show is less than the sum of its pieces Oct 4, 2007
When Ana Mendieta did this in the 1970s, it was revolutionary, a reclaiming of the feminine form from the male artist's gaze. Thirty years on, female flesh is still objectified, only now the women are artists as well as models, and they're uttering a collective "Ouch!". (Boston Globe)
What Women Have Done to Art Mar 24, 2007
So Ana Mendieta, a Cuban refugee, traveled around the U.S. and Mexico making deep impressions on the ground in the shape of her silhouette. These she filled with rocks or flowers, making feminist earthworks that used a woman's body, not the steam shovels favored by the guys, to connect with nature. (Time.com)
Arts Walking the walk Jun 28, 2006
In its environmental concerns, it is closer to the work of his compatriota, the late Ana Mendieta. Born in Cuba and raised in Puerto Rico, Pujol spent six years in a cloistered monastery after graduating from the Universidad de Puerto Rico. (San Antonio Current, TX)
