Harmony Hammond is a visual artist, art writer and independent curator, who lives and works in Galisteo, New Mexico, USA. She is one of the pioneers of the American feminist art movement.
Category: Lesbian art herstory
French lesbian photographer Claude Cahun’s surrealist works are growing more and more popular. Go see the latest retrospective of her works in Barcelona: Claude Cahun 28 October 2011 to 2 February 2012 at Centre de Imatge, Barcelona, Spain “After many years of relative obscurity, the photographs of Claude Cahun (born…
Lenore Chinn on Bernice Bing from Rehistoricizing.org on Vimeo. Bernice Bing (1936-1998) a Chinese American Painter and Queer Artist Bernice Bing was a third-generation American Chinese born in Chinatown, San Francisco in 1936. In 1958, Bernice attended California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland, but she soon transferred to…
Lesbian Art Herstory: Claude Cahun
Art Herstory: German bisexual artist Hannah Höch (1889-1978) is best known for her photomontages, though she also made drawings and paintings. Between 1912 and 1920, she studied art at the Kunstgewerbeschule Charlottenburg (Charlottenburg School of Applied Arts) and the Unterrichtsanstalt des königlichen Kunstgewerbemuseums (School of the Royal Museum of Applied…
Press release from The Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art Lesbians Seeing Lesbians Building Community in Early Feminist Photography Exhibition Ends October 22, 2011 at the Leslie-Lohman Gallery, 26 Wooster Street, NYC, USA Tee Corrine, Self-portrait, Gelatin silver print, 1980. Press photo courtesy of Leslie-Lohman Gallery. In the wake…
Doin’ It in Public: Feminism and Art at the Woman’s Building, Oct. 1, 2010 – Jan. 28, 2012 at BEN MALTZ GALLERY.
American Laura Gilpin, (1891-1979) is best know for her landscapes of the Southwest and of her photos of the Navajo. She also frequently photographed her partner Elizabeth ‘Betsy’ Forster.
Agnes Noyes Goodsir (1864-1939) was an Australian painter and closeted lesbian. Learn more about Agnes Noyes Goodsir at glbtq.com
Portrait de Madame M. by Tamara de Lempickaset a new world auction record for the artist when it sold for $6,130,500 at Christie’s in 2009.
Dora Carrington painted only for her own pleasure, did not sign her works, and rarely exhibited them, hence she was not well known as a painter during her lifetime.
Lesbian Couple Told to Stop Holding Hands at Gertrude Stein Exhibit in San Francisco The Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco is taking very seriously an incident in which a guard tried to get a lesbian couple to stop holding hands while they were viewing — ironically enough — an…
Pioneering California architect Julia Morgan (1872-1957) was the first woman architect to be registered in California.
Catherine Opie : Retrospective at the Guggenheim, “American Photographer” Sept 26th, 2008 – Jan 7th, 2009. In this video Grace Moon talks with queer photographer Catherine Opie about Catherine’s retrospective at the Guggenheim.
American Art Quilter V Kingsley 11/11/1965 to 4/1/2011.
An amazing T shirt collection containing 30 years of lesbian and feminist herstory is made into a very non traditional quilt titled “I am a Mermaid” by V Kingsley, USA
I have been looking back at lesbian art projects and exhibitions in the late 1970s, when lesbian artists began to fight for their seat in history and took the first steps on the way to raising public awareness of lesbian art as something more than a hidden subcultural phenomenon.