Schneider Museum of Art
The works of Christel Dillbohner at
the Intimate Revelations exhibition
The works of Mari Omori and
Echiko Ohira at the Intimate
Revelations Exhibition
The works of Maritta Tapanainen at
the Intimate Revelations Exhibition
Intimate Revelations
The International Women's Exhibition
The Schneider Museum of Art in conjunction with Southern Oregon Women’s Studies department present an international exhibition of works by women artists titled - Intimate Revelations.
Geography and culture are universally recognized as significant influences on artists and their art; yet questions about the pertinence of gender are still being debated. Those whose work will be presented in this exhibition grew up on many continents and in different countries: Brazil, Cuba, Finland, Germany, Hungary, India, Japan, Korea, and Mexico. Some live in their native countries, others have traveled and settled in the United States but all of them bear the influences of the cultures they were raised in.
Many of the pieces coming from abroad are works on paper (a determination based on the need to minimize costs) but media used includes painting, photography, collage, assemblage and installation.
While each artist’s statement is unique and individual, they all are conversant with and use the vocabulary of contemporary art.
Josine Ianco Starrells, Curator
Yolanda Andrade
Yolanda Andrade was born in Villahermosa, Mexico in 1950. In 1968 she moved to Mexico City to attend language courses and theater workshops. Eventually her interest in acting waned, and she became a member of the Camera Club of Mexico having decided to become a photographer. In 1976 and 1977, she enrolled in the Visual Arts Studies Workshops in Rochester, New York.
While working on various images of her own, she held day-jobs as a still photographer for film productions, as well as working as a free lance photographer and staff photographer at Editorial Provenemex.
Photography emerged as one of the most forceful visual expressions in Mexico in the generation of artists that followed one of the greatest Mexican muralists. It flourished not long after its invention in Europe, partially due to the fact that an unusual number of distinguished artists became practitioners of the medium: Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Pedro Meyer, Tina Modotti, Graciela Iturbide, Flor Garduno, and Pablo Ortiz Monasteri produced extraordinary images with the camera.
For years the art establishment had not regarded photography as significant a medium as painting, but such prejudice has largely been eradicated and it is now recognized as equally important as any other medium in the fine arts.
Yolanda Andrade’s work is best known for her incisive portrayals of life in Mexico City; she has described it as follows: My task is to see Mexico City from a very personal point of view- to envision it as if I were making a visual diary with my comments about politics, womanhood, machismo, religion, sexual mores, social attitudes, the imagination of the common person, high art, and popular culture. It is not only the city of my life, the one I live in as a woman and as a professional photographer, but also the city of my imagination, the protagonist of works of fiction, the scenery where different stories happen at the same time.
Andrade was described by Latina critic and essayist Margarita Nieto as being possessed of an uncanny ability to capture the extraordinary within the ordinary; her work is often an interplay between people and things, creating a fantastic, at times quasi-surreal dialectic.
More Intimate Revelations:
Pg. 2: Belkis Ayon Pg. 3: Christel Dillbohner
Pg. 4: Mari Omori/Maritta Tapanainen
Pg. 5: Kyung Sun Cho/Theodora Varney Jones/Echiko Ohira
Pg. 6: Sosa Joseph Pg. 7: Younhee Paik
