Art History Lecture Series: Ana Mendieta (1948 - 1985)
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Ana Mendieta was a Cuban-American interdisciplinary artist who worked at the intersection of earth art, feminist art, and photography to explore themes of exile and identity using her own body as both subject and medium. Blood, mud, fire–no material was off limits for her. She described her Silueta series, which merges her body with the earth, as “carrying on a dialogue between the landscape and the female body.” This lecture will present Mendieta’s legacy while addressing similarities in Frye Art Museum Boren Banner artist Camile Trautman, whose work also challenges colonial narratives while countering Indigenous erasure by inserting their body into landscape photography.
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Located in Seattle’s First Hill neighborhood since 1952, the Frye is the city’s only free art museum. The Founding Collection of primarily late-nineteenth and early-twentieth-century European art was gifted in perpetuity to the people of Seattle by prominent early-twentieth-century Seattle business leaders and art collectors Charles and Emma Frye. In addition, the museum owns... (Read more)