John Legelis – Looking Outwards, Week 10

Recently I visited the Carnegie Museum of Art down the road for the first time since before this summer. There have been several new installations since I last visited the museum but one stuck out specifically which was an exhibit by the Guerrilla Girls. The Guerrilla Girls are a self defined as a group of “feminist activist artists”. The aim to target discrepancies in the art world between representation of women’s works vs men’s. Among the groups tactics for bring attention to these sexist discrepancies are absurdism and borderline threatening. One of their favorite facts to demonstrate the underrepresentation of female artist is as follows:

The group consists of an ever changing flux of people who remain anonymous in order to keep the attention on the issues instead of the members. I admire this group because of their frankness, aggression, and successful unorthodox methods.