Comments on: Guerilla Girl Attempts to Stay Relevant By Talking Georgia O’Keeffe

By: Ann Tracy

Ann Tracy — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 19:27:25 +0000

sigh…. they should still be going what they were first doing – which is protesting the lack of women artists in galleries and museums…. that’s still a problem. Everyone’s got an O’Keefe opinion, so her’s joins the others… so what?

By: Daniel Larkin

Daniel Larkin — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 18:31:43 +0000

Georgia O’Keaffe had an amazing technique. I mean that quite literally. If you go to any museum, you will observe that her paintings are still in a stunning condition. Van Gogh’s paintings are already starting to show some cracks and going to cause alot of headaches in the coming century.

By: leigh waldron-taylor

leigh waldron-taylor — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 23:44:00 +0000

A Guerilla Girl came to RISD a couple months ago and I went because I was curious to see how they’d stand the test of time and whether RISD students would respond. Well, she got off to a cringeworthy slow start but soon managed to engage the full auditorium of students who gave her a standing ovation. I got a little teary.

By: Gregg

Gregg — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 19:18:46 +0000

Wait, this is a Whitney presented (approved) GG audio essay?

What’s the point? If America needed a female modernist icon in the thirties – The Whitney needs a cash cow show now. Luckily O’Keeffe fits the bill in both cases, she’s so handy. As for the video, safe jargon laden art speak. Did the Whitney need a masked woman with a past to speak those lines? That’s the real question. Not “whither the GGs,” but why can’t a woman say these same things openly to the Whitney e-audience?

By: Facebook User

Facebook User — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 16:08:40 +0000

The third group is Guerrilla Girls Broadband http://www.ggbb.org. The split was to expand to new frontiers – the GG’s who founded the GGOT’s are theatre artists who wanted to fight discrimination with theatre.

By: mang

mang — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 16:06:07 +0000

Also, as far as I know, the Toxic Titties are not related to the Guerrilla Girls, except in spirit. I find their work bracing, though, and smart. And funny. My favorite piece by them is the Beecroft Intervention, wherein they infiltrated a Beecroft piece by becoming actual Beecroft models and then unionizing them from within, as well as (gasp!) making facial expressions during a performance. They highlighted the fact that Beecroft’s work is everything it is supposedly trying to mock. I don’t know if Toxic Titties cite Guerrilla Girls as an influence, but it would make sense.

By: mang

mang — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 16:00:10 +0000

The graphics are bad, the shtick is tired, and more militancy would certainly be welcomed. But the need is undeniable. Just yesterday, in my daily trawlings, I came across these two separate press releases (excerpted) for shows up in my city:

“The eleven oil paintings in this series use imagery of youthful women in the nude, often impaled by archery arrows. Although the women are naked and impaled their facial expression and body language is unaffected.”

“The artist’s new body of work explores his experience with freeing his rational psyche and surrendering to his unconscious mind. Many of the paintings, which are a blend of realism and abstraction, depict nude women wading in water.”

I couldn’t help but wonder what the hell century we are in.

By: Lisa Leverett

Lisa Leverett — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 15:27:34 +0000

Do you have any specific suggestions? What is it about this particular brand of feminism that turns you off other than it seems dated? I still like the masks. If you are a woman this is relevant because they are riffing on the fact that female faces are still less important than the rest of the female form – at least in the art world – and emphasizes the need for anonymity for these women and the very real fear of being marginalized for politicizing in this manner.

The video is poorly timed, yes. They need some fresh policy, yes. Can you suggest something more specific and constructive?

BTW, you are right. The site graphics are pretty heinous.

By: Hrag Vartanian

Hrag Vartanian — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 15:24:28 +0000

Good to know, do you mind explaining the split? What is the third group? And why did they split?

By: adobobo

adobobo — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 15:19:50 +0000

Toxic Titties!