The Mood Back Home, an Exhibition inspired by Womanhouse
Momenta Art, 56 Bogart Street Brooklyn, NYFebruary 13, 2009 - March 16, 2009.
Friday, February 27, 7pm - Film night with Mira Schor and Faith Wilding, A House is not a Home.
The idea for the exhibition “The Mood Back Home” developed from discussions between two artists/mothers, Leslie Brack and Suzy Spence, about the landmark project “WOMANHOUSE,” created in 1972 by a group of CalArts students and their professors Judy Chicago and Miriam Shapiro.
Like “WOMANHOUSE,” the exhibition “The Mood Back Home” addressed the stubborn nature of gender-prescribed domesticity and its effect on women artists. The exhibition highlighted Johanna Demetrekas’ documentary film, “Womanhouse,” in the gallery, but focused on work of a new generation of women, the ostensible inheritors of 70s era feminism.
As a permanent tribute to WOMANHOUSE and to give it a much-needed internet “home,” the curators built a website archive.
Curated by Leslie Brack and Suzy Spence. Artists: Alyson Aliano, AM, Pam Butler, Leslie Brack, Nicole Eisenman, Jessica Jackson-Hutchins, Karen Leo, Karyn Olivier, Bea Romeo, Suzy Spence, Kirsten Stoltmann, Toofly, Jeanne Tremel, Pinar Yolacan



