Archive 2010-11
Vanalyne Green
- Venue: Fine Art Lecture Theatre
- Start: Wed, 02 Feb 2011 11:00:00 GMT
- End: Wed, 02 Feb 2011 13:00:00 GMT
Vanalyne Green is an American artist who primarily works in video and film, though recent years have seen her experimenting with conceptual works that include sculptural objects. She is best known for work that “appropriates the conventions of various genres to examine hierarchies of meaning where sex and privilege cross paths. Her work playfully and bitterly examines the paradoxes of American citizenship within such social practices as addiction, sports, sexuality, and, most recently, prayer.” Green is also of that generation of American artists whose artistic careers have developed contemporaneous to that of Feminism in its sociological sense. For example, she studied art at Fresno State University in the first feminist art programme started by Judy Chicago and then at California Institute of the Arts with Sheila Levrant de Bretteville. Green was a founding member of the collaborative group Feel Tank Chicago. Her institutional credits and list of key collaborations read like a who’s who of The Women’s Movement as played out in the arena of contemporary art. In this sense, she could be said to be of the generation of feminist artists for whom gender politics is built into the philosophical core of what it understands as valid artistic practice since the late 1960s onwards.
Green’s art – as an extant body of work- wonderfully demonstrates the developmental processes of an artist from a pioneering generation of feminist artists, arguably from the first generation to be truly ‘qualified’ to base its discourses in an advanced theoretical framework beyond simple resistance. A graduate of Cal Arts, Green has screened her video work extensively, including The Whitney Biennial, American Film Institute, Rotterdam International Film Festival, the Videotheque de Paris, The Robert Flaherty Film Seminar, The Guggenheim Museum and many other museums, universities and film festivals.