10 Female Performance Artists You Should Know ...

A recent article on Artsy, written by Karen Chernick recalls the late 20th century period of feminist performance art.

"As a new wave of the feminist movement began to crest in the 1960s and ’70s, women artists turned to the then-uncharted field of performance. “One of the things about performance and the area that I went into was that it wasn’t male-dominated,” artist Joan Jonas explained in 2014. “It wasn’t like painting and sculpture.” Adopting a new medium meant greater freedom to experiment, without fear of comparison to the generations of male artists that preceded them."

Read the full article here: https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-10-female-performance-arti...