CURRENT RECENT ONGOING
OCTOBER 26th—NOVEMBER 19th 2022: Photographs from The Roadside Memorial Project on view in The Absent Referent exhibition, curated by artist and eco-feminist activist Karen Fiorito at TAG Gallery, 5458 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, CA. ARTIST RECEPTION: OCTOBER 29th, 5-9pm.
Thursday, November 18th 2021 7:00-8:30pm EST: Please join us for The Fifth Trust Virtual Art Opening, curated by Janell O'Rourke and Jane O'Hara and hosted by Compassion Arts. We'll be looking at the exhibition, and meeting some of the artists in zoom person and video.
The event is free, but requires advance sign up - please go here: FIFTH TRUST | Virtual Exhibition
The sign up link is at the bottom and you will receive a confirmation through your email (make sure to check junk files if you don't see it).
****If you are unable to make it to the Virtual Art Opening you can also view the entire Fifth Trust exhibit at Compassion Arts Festival's website starting Nov 18th!
2021: Very honored to receive an artist enrichment grant from the Kentucky Foundation for Women! KFW supports, "Kentucky feminist artists and arts organizations committed to creating positive social change throughout the state." The funds will allow me to purchase printmaking supplies and create a new body of work inspired by author Carol J. Adam's book, "The Pornography of Meat."
NOVEMBER 2020: Work from the series, You Eat What You Are featured in Carol J. Adam's revised 2nd edition of the book, The Pornography of Meat.
NOVEMBER 17th 2020: Individual projects by ArtAnimalAffect artists: Janell O'Rourke, Kathryn Eddy and L.A. Watson will be featured in the 6th annual Compassion Arts Festival online and presented by Janell O' Rourke for the Seeing Animals More Deeply through the Arts roundtable discussion Tuesday Nov, 17th, 7:30pm—9pm. Advanced signup is required by Nov 16th.
OCTOBER 14th-NOVEMBER 10th, 2019: The video installation Uncooped will be on display at All Creatures Great and Small at Meredith College in Raleigh, NC. The exhibition features the work of female artists who are dedicated to animals and activism and include: Lee Deigaard, Shannon Johnstone, Jo-Anne McArthur, Traer Scott.
JANUARY 17-24th, 2018: A lecture discussing SPOM: The Sexual Politics of Meat Exhibition will be presented by artist Yvette Watt at the Minding Animals Conference in Mexico City for the Minding Animals International Conference. Minding Animals works to further the development of animal studies internationally and to help establish legal and moral protections for all nonhuman animals.
JANUARY 16th, 2018-FEBRUARY 16th, 2018: Selected images from the A Bird at My Table series are included in the group show, "New Domesticity: Women's Work in Women's Art," curated by Emily Elizabeth Goodman at Morlan Gallery, Transylvania University, Lexington KY.
JANUARY 19th, 2018-FEBRUARY 24th, 2018: Two paintings from the I've had a Taste & Now I Want More series are on display at The Parachute Factory, Lexington KY for the "New Domesticity: Women's Work in Women's Art," show curated by Emily Elizabeth Goodman.
SEPTEMBER 8, 2017—JANUARY 1, 2018: Patent Pending: Labor / Force is currently on display in the show "Women with their Work I: Affect + Action," at Space One Eleven (2407 Second Avenue North, Birmingham, Alabama). "Artists as Activists" Panel Discussion, Thursday September 7th at 5pm.
FEBRUARY 25—APRIL 30th 2017: Patent Pending and a photograph from the A bird at my table series, is currently on display in The Sexual Politics of Meat (SPOM) exhibit at The Animal Museum in Los Angeles, CA. The SPOM show, curated by myself and fellow ArtAnimalAffect artists: Kathryn Eddy and Janell O'Rourke; features fourteen contemporary women artists whose work has been inspired by the ecofeminist theories presented in Carol J. Adams’ book, The Sexual Politics of Meat. The SPOM exhibition aims to not simply illustrate the ideas found in the book but instead, highlights how artists internalize theory and create original work as a result; the exhibit coincides with the 25th anniversary of the book.
The Sexual Politics of Meat by Carol J. Adams explores the ways that women and animals are marginalized and objectified in patriarchal cultures. Through an exploration of how persons might literally and metaphorically become “pieces of meat,” Adams analyzes the object-status of nonhuman animals and its relationship to the objectification of women throughout visual and literary culture.
Through their work, the artists of SPOM examine intersecting oppressions based on gender, race and species, exploring what objectification means to them personally, politically and poetically. Working in a wide variety of media the artists of SPOM ask, “How does someone become something?”
Featured artists: Nava Atlas, Patricia Denys, Kathryn Eddy, Suzy González, Hester Jones, Renee Lauzon, Maria Lux, lynn mowson, Janell O’Rourke, Olaitan Valerie Callender-Scott, Angela Singer, Sunaura Taylor, L.A. Watson, Yvette Watt.
JUNE 2015: The Art of the Animal book that I co-edited along with ArtAnimalAffect artists Kathryn Eddy & Janell O'Rourke, and published by Lantern Books, is now available! This beautiful, full-color, hardcover book highlights the artwork and writing of fourteen women artists who have been inspired by the theories presented in Carol J. Adam's book, The Sexual Politics of Meat.
MAY 2015: I am very excited to have written a chapter for the interdisciplinary book, “Economies of Death,” published by Routledge, and edited by Tish Lopez and Kathryn Gillespie. The book focuses on a cross-species analysis of “economic processes of commodification and capital accumulation that make lives killable, and exploit bodies, lives and labor in ways that bring on premature death.” My chapter, “Remains to be seen: photographing “roadkill” and The Roadside Memorial Project,” examines the ways in which nonhuman animals killed on the road are framed as “ungrievable lives” in contemporary sociopolitical discourse. I consider the ethics of photographic framing in relation to artists who photograph “roadkill,” such as Steve Baker, Claudia Terstappen and others and discuss the research that inspired “The Roadside Memorial Project,” an ongoing site-specific road installation that constitutes a public site of mourning for animals killed on the road as well as a new kind of warning sign to alert human drivers. Copies of the book are available for purchase or you can request that your library stock a copy of the book by filling out this form on Routledge's website.
Thursday, November 18th 2021 7:00-8:30pm EST: Please join us for The Fifth Trust Virtual Art Opening, curated by Janell O'Rourke and Jane O'Hara and hosted by Compassion Arts. We'll be looking at the exhibition, and meeting some of the artists in zoom person and video.
The event is free, but requires advance sign up - please go here: FIFTH TRUST | Virtual Exhibition
The sign up link is at the bottom and you will receive a confirmation through your email (make sure to check junk files if you don't see it).
****If you are unable to make it to the Virtual Art Opening you can also view the entire Fifth Trust exhibit at Compassion Arts Festival's website starting Nov 18th!
2021: Very honored to receive an artist enrichment grant from the Kentucky Foundation for Women! KFW supports, "Kentucky feminist artists and arts organizations committed to creating positive social change throughout the state." The funds will allow me to purchase printmaking supplies and create a new body of work inspired by author Carol J. Adam's book, "The Pornography of Meat."
NOVEMBER 2020: Work from the series, You Eat What You Are featured in Carol J. Adam's revised 2nd edition of the book, The Pornography of Meat.
NOVEMBER 17th 2020: Individual projects by ArtAnimalAffect artists: Janell O'Rourke, Kathryn Eddy and L.A. Watson will be featured in the 6th annual Compassion Arts Festival online and presented by Janell O' Rourke for the Seeing Animals More Deeply through the Arts roundtable discussion Tuesday Nov, 17th, 7:30pm—9pm. Advanced signup is required by Nov 16th.
OCTOBER 14th-NOVEMBER 10th, 2019: The video installation Uncooped will be on display at All Creatures Great and Small at Meredith College in Raleigh, NC. The exhibition features the work of female artists who are dedicated to animals and activism and include: Lee Deigaard, Shannon Johnstone, Jo-Anne McArthur, Traer Scott.
JANUARY 17-24th, 2018: A lecture discussing SPOM: The Sexual Politics of Meat Exhibition will be presented by artist Yvette Watt at the Minding Animals Conference in Mexico City for the Minding Animals International Conference. Minding Animals works to further the development of animal studies internationally and to help establish legal and moral protections for all nonhuman animals.
JANUARY 16th, 2018-FEBRUARY 16th, 2018: Selected images from the A Bird at My Table series are included in the group show, "New Domesticity: Women's Work in Women's Art," curated by Emily Elizabeth Goodman at Morlan Gallery, Transylvania University, Lexington KY.
JANUARY 19th, 2018-FEBRUARY 24th, 2018: Two paintings from the I've had a Taste & Now I Want More series are on display at The Parachute Factory, Lexington KY for the "New Domesticity: Women's Work in Women's Art," show curated by Emily Elizabeth Goodman.
SEPTEMBER 8, 2017—JANUARY 1, 2018: Patent Pending: Labor / Force is currently on display in the show "Women with their Work I: Affect + Action," at Space One Eleven (2407 Second Avenue North, Birmingham, Alabama). "Artists as Activists" Panel Discussion, Thursday September 7th at 5pm.
FEBRUARY 25—APRIL 30th 2017: Patent Pending and a photograph from the A bird at my table series, is currently on display in The Sexual Politics of Meat (SPOM) exhibit at The Animal Museum in Los Angeles, CA. The SPOM show, curated by myself and fellow ArtAnimalAffect artists: Kathryn Eddy and Janell O'Rourke; features fourteen contemporary women artists whose work has been inspired by the ecofeminist theories presented in Carol J. Adams’ book, The Sexual Politics of Meat. The SPOM exhibition aims to not simply illustrate the ideas found in the book but instead, highlights how artists internalize theory and create original work as a result; the exhibit coincides with the 25th anniversary of the book.
The Sexual Politics of Meat by Carol J. Adams explores the ways that women and animals are marginalized and objectified in patriarchal cultures. Through an exploration of how persons might literally and metaphorically become “pieces of meat,” Adams analyzes the object-status of nonhuman animals and its relationship to the objectification of women throughout visual and literary culture.
Through their work, the artists of SPOM examine intersecting oppressions based on gender, race and species, exploring what objectification means to them personally, politically and poetically. Working in a wide variety of media the artists of SPOM ask, “How does someone become something?”
Featured artists: Nava Atlas, Patricia Denys, Kathryn Eddy, Suzy González, Hester Jones, Renee Lauzon, Maria Lux, lynn mowson, Janell O’Rourke, Olaitan Valerie Callender-Scott, Angela Singer, Sunaura Taylor, L.A. Watson, Yvette Watt.
JUNE 2015: The Art of the Animal book that I co-edited along with ArtAnimalAffect artists Kathryn Eddy & Janell O'Rourke, and published by Lantern Books, is now available! This beautiful, full-color, hardcover book highlights the artwork and writing of fourteen women artists who have been inspired by the theories presented in Carol J. Adam's book, The Sexual Politics of Meat.
MAY 2015: I am very excited to have written a chapter for the interdisciplinary book, “Economies of Death,” published by Routledge, and edited by Tish Lopez and Kathryn Gillespie. The book focuses on a cross-species analysis of “economic processes of commodification and capital accumulation that make lives killable, and exploit bodies, lives and labor in ways that bring on premature death.” My chapter, “Remains to be seen: photographing “roadkill” and The Roadside Memorial Project,” examines the ways in which nonhuman animals killed on the road are framed as “ungrievable lives” in contemporary sociopolitical discourse. I consider the ethics of photographic framing in relation to artists who photograph “roadkill,” such as Steve Baker, Claudia Terstappen and others and discuss the research that inspired “The Roadside Memorial Project,” an ongoing site-specific road installation that constitutes a public site of mourning for animals killed on the road as well as a new kind of warning sign to alert human drivers. Copies of the book are available for purchase or you can request that your library stock a copy of the book by filling out this form on Routledge's website.
ONGOING: I am happy to have my photographic series, A Bird at My Table, included in the Rutger's Institute for Women and Art 40th anniversary exhibit.