ABSTRACT
Anchored by feminist, art, and performance theories (including Black feminism), this chapter analyzes three twenty-first-century feminist art moments. They are works by Lenelle Moïse, a queer Haitian-American poet, playwright, and performance artist; AFTER LIFE (we survive), an exhibition curated by Thea Quiray Tagle, a transdisciplinary feminist scholar; and pedagogical questions about feminism and the arts. Other references include Carrie Mae Weems’s Family Pictures and Stories, 1981–82; Judy Chicago’s The Dinner Party (1974–1979); Lorraine O’Grady’s Mlle Bourgeoise Noire (1980–1983); WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution curated by Cornelia Butler (2007); Kara Walker’s A Subtlety: or the Marvelous Sugar Baby (2014); Burning Down the House: Building a Feminist Art Collection (2008–2009) and Global Feminisms (2017), exhibitions curated by Maura Reilly; and Kat Eng’s Less than Three (2014). This chapter proposes that feminist art asks questions about power and systems of oppression (including patriarchy), structures of gendered and intersectional identities, and aesthetics.
