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fierce creatures; Kenyan artist Wangechi Mutu has brought her fresh and vividly energetic vision to figurative art-spinning fantastical tales of folklore and modernity.
Byline: Dodie Kazanjian
The women in Wangechi Mutu's paintings are a strange and disturbing breed. Beautiful but grotesque, powerful yet maimed, they perch in trees or cavort in the tall grass, their hair erupting in wild shapes and arabesques, their limbs missing or metamorphosed into bird legs with talon feet. The unfinished one I'm looking at right now, in the artist's Brooklyn studio, is an African odalisque with a ferocious expression; her blotchy, pink-and-white skin looks diseased, but the mottled effect could also be from light falling on her through jungle foliage. She's fascinating but scary, someone I wouldn't want to cross. "This one is coming along," ...
- Wangechi Mutu at SFMOMA.(San Francisco Museum of Modern Art)
- Magazine article from: Art in America Murray, D.C. October 1, 2006 700+ words
Kenya-born, New York-based Wangechi Mutu is known for her unsettling and evocative collage works: disturbing renderings of black female bodies under duress. Wonderfully...
- Collage collection in Miami.(Wangechi Mutu at the Miami Art Museum, Florida)
- Newspaper article from: Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL) Kilian, Michael August 22, 2005 700+ words
...unique collages of Kenyan-born New York artist Wangechi Mutu, who specializes in "elegantly...product of Yale University and New York's Cooper Union, was rated...On view through Sept. 10 at New York's celebrated Zabriskie Gallery...
- Wangechi Mutu: when this artist says her goal is to keep moving, keep changing,...
- Magazine article from: Interview Kruger, Barbara April 1, 2007 700+ words
...as both backstory and explanatory device. How important is that Information to the viewing and reception of the work?. WANGECHI MUTU: I think it's important, and I also think people fixate on certain specific, superficial things about you to lead them...
- Performa biennial takes the stage in New York.(insight)
- Magazine article from: Art in America Cash, Stephanie November 1, 2009 700+ words
...Biennale through Nov. 22. Other New York premieres include Lost Astronaut...performance [Nov. 12-13]; New York New York features multiple sets of twins...Benjamin-Meyer, Arto Lindsay, Wangechi Mutu, Christian Tomaszewski and Yeondoo...
- Whitney Museum of American Art.(PARTIES: New York)
- Magazine article from: Town & Country Spaulding, Clint Prutting, David March 1, 2009 700+ words
...for-auction, one-of-a-kind pieces of jewelry designed for Versace by artists Julian Schnabel, Marc Quinn and Wangechi Mutu, all of whom also donated signed original sketches. A performance by Sting and a celebrity-packed afterparty topped off...
- Update: catch these events in July and August.(Calendar)
- Magazine article from: Interior Design DeRose, Jen June 1, 2005 700+ words
...My Evil Labor, part of "Wangechi Mutu" at the Miami Art Museum...generation of feminist painters. New York's Jewish Museum gathers...s documentary focuses on New York's 1965, 1977, and 2003...Myth and Modernism" at New York's Solomon R. Guggenheim...
- Wall Street Rising & Deutsche Bank Present ''Art Downtown: Connecting...
- Press release article from: Business Wire October 15, 2004 700+ words
...the focal point of the New York City art world when Wall...commitment to Downtown New York," said Gary Hattem...generosity of some of New York's most talented and...Muniz, Takashi Murakami, Wangechi Mutu, MERES, Sigmar Polke...
- Museum preview 2008/2009.
- Magazine article from: Art in America August 1, 2008 700+ words
...Museum of American Art, New York, the exhibition includes...Mae Weems, Renee Cox, Wangechi Mutu, Fazal Sheikh and Malick...organic TWA Terminal at New York's Kennedy Airport and...to the Jewish Museum, New York, Mar. 15-Aug. 2...