Butch in the bog/She tends to flag on the left, 2008
collaboration with Celeste Dupuy-Spencer
mural (acrylic), collection of drawings, paintings
made on the occasion of Pink & Bent at Leslie Lohman Gallery, NY

Oil on canvas, 2007

I started taking painting lessons in October 2007. My teacher Celeste Dupuy-Spencer asked me on the first day, "So, what do you want to paint?" and I got nervous--I had no idea. I looked around her studio and thought maybe her dog? But no, fur is hard to start with. So we decided that I would learn by copying a painting. She started looking through some book of 19th century Dutch painting and I started flipping through Harmony Hammond's Lesbian Art in America. I originally was like "Oh, I should paint a Nicole Eisenman!" But Celeste said NO WAY. "You can't do that because she's my teacher." I landed on Cathy Opie's back. My first painting!

On April 5, 2008, new friends Kim and Ida hosted a POWERSTITCH at their home, a grand compound in East Oakland. We quilted for an afternoon amongst the succulents and pear trees. Their neighbors came out and joined us for the day: Mark Thomas, a renowned textile artist, and Rebecca who read to us from TRUST, a guide to hand-balling (our selection) and poet laureate Charles Simic (her's).
All photos by Chris Vargas, local host and California brother.

Saturday, April 12, 2008
3PM

As it celebrates and examines feminist art from the 1970s, WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution fosters dialogue about feminism’s impact on successive generations of women artists. How does the legacy, memory and mythos of women’s liberation movements inform, influence, inspire and provoke artists born “after the revolution”? What residual effect has this seminal work had on later generations of artists and with second wave feminism? In conjunction with the PS1 exhibition, artists, musicians, and filmmakers will explore these issues in a panel devoted to questions of generationalism, cross-influences, historical residue, and problems of passing the torch.
Panelists:
Johanna Fateman
Sharon Hayes
Liza Johnson
Laura Parnes
Ginger Brooks Takahashi
moderated by Elisabeth Subrin

Saturday, April 12, 2008
3PM,
PS1, 2nd Floor, Mini Kunsthalle

Space for Actualisation
Hamburg, Germany

Ginger Brooks Takahashi
Ulrike Mueller

WHIP

14. October - 03. November 2007

Opening.
Sunday, 14.10.07.
from 7 pm.

“A whip is a great way to get someone to be here now.
They can’t look away from it, and they can’t think about anything else.”
Pat Califia, A Secret Side of Lesbian Sexuality, in: The Advocate, December 27, 1979

New York based artists Ginger Brooks Takahashi and Ulrike Mueller present their new video work "Whip" as well as drawings and paper works. They approach their projects in a process and deal with the venue, its surrounding space and the prevailing social circumstances.

Let's re-live some part of my Michigan Women's Music Festival experience this summer. Tees and bags I made will be for sale--Joan Armatrading full frontal print and Live and Let Lez--at LTTR's table at the New York Book Art Fair. I will be there with Hardy, Roysdon, and Edie Fake. All five issues of LTTR will be available for public browsing.
For those of you unable to make the fair who want some Michigan souveniers, feel free to use the contact form on this site.

548 West 22nd Street (10th & 11th Aves)
Friday/Saturday, September 28/29, 2007, 11am - 7pm
Sunday, September 30, 2007, 11am - 5pm

http://www.nyartbookfair.com/