Nikki Lee

I really liked this photograph by Nikki Lee because her work is so different than the pieces we have seen in previous work. I like the way she transforms herself into any role and she shows women can be anything they want to be. I also like how she brings an american touch to this photo with the popsicle in hand. I think nikki lee shows that art isn't just paintings, or sculptures but also photography as well.

the artist departs from the snapshot depictions of cultural identity for which she has become internationally known to explore how more intimate relationships affect personal identity. As in her previous work, Lee appears in each photograph, which is shot by someone else. Now, however, she carefully stages narrative scenes in which she appears with other performers, typically male companions, who she subsequently cuts out of the picture. The viewer is left to guess the parts that are missing -- the identity of the missing person and the missing holes of the narrative story. Although Lee is recognizable in each image, she appears slightly different, emphasizing the artist's interest in the fluidity of identity and the role of personal relationships in one's sense of self.

This painting is by Shirin Neshat. She is once again showing how she is dedicated to her religion. She has a group of them packed together that symbolized unity to me.

The wrting on there hands could symbolised the words they want to say but couldn't say because of the fear of dying. notice how this is all women in the photo and not mean. that os because men were subjective to wearing the veil.

Shirin Neshat

This is an untitled black and white photo by Shirin Neshat (1996). The photo consists of (presumably) a mother and her child. The mother is extremely covered up in a burqa that runs down her entire face and body. The only body part seen is her arm and hand, which is holding the hand of the boy. The boy, meanwhile, is completely naked and has henna designs drawn all over his body. The picture definitely gives off an unsettling feeling because the woman is highly covered up and protected while the boy is completely naked and vulnerable, playing against many societal beliefs that children should be protected while women stay naked (or at least scantily clad). These polar opposites powerfully bring awareness to Islamic culture and the huge division between men and women liberties. The child's nudity symbolizes a greater amount of freedom and exposure entitled to males than females. His henna designs also indicate not only the idea of Islam being ingrained in children at an early age, but also the notion that a male's word, like the word of Islam, is law. The woman, meanwhile, is nothing but a shadow in society. She has no exposure or freedom. Her whole identity is blacked out except the hand linking to the boy, pointing out that her sole existence is to raise the male child.

Believable

This is another image done by Nikki Lee. What I like about her work is that the things she is performing display the truth about our world in terms of identity and race. The unique part of her images is that she is totally believable to be in that role. This image is just a girl with her boyfriend in a brn with a puppy. There is nothing in this photo you would question. Her skin is still different fromthat of a white person, but does not raise as big a question as a white person with a black. Her images dispay that sense of invisiblity where asians our around us but are not seen as different.

Nikki Lee Photo

This is a photograph by Nikki Lee. The interpretation that I get from this picture is that the woman kneeling down to pose with the dog is a celebrity or wealthy person and Nikki Lee is her personal assistant. They are in front of an upscale-looking store, and Lee is holding the dog's leash in addition to carrying shopping bags. The woman also carries a small bag, so maybe they are just friends that are shopping together. Lee's photographs are very realistic, and I feel like some of them, (such as the pictures in which she portrays a skater, girlfriend of a redneck, etc.), play on stereotypes of specific groups of people.

women on a bridge

Artist: Faith Ringgold

This is a quilt by Faith Ringgold and in this quilt she brings together many different things. I remember us talking about her quilting and how it brought together self portraiture, narrative, and her growing up in Harlem and i felt like this quilt did the same for me which is why i picked it. I think this quilt tells her story and since one of the very popular bridges is scene in this quilt it is obvious that she loved to portray home. I think above everything else the bridge has significance and definetely stands out. I also thought it was interesting that there is a guy standing on top of a building and also what seems like angels flying around. What also stood out to me was the family sitting at the table together at the bottom of the quilt this could represent that family was very important to her as well. I liked this quilt a lot because it had a homey feel to it and you can tell that she is trying to tell her story and portray it in a certain way so that certain things are brought to the audiences attention. As i read more about this quilt i believe it is the one we were talking about in class Tar Beach and the women flying over the George Washington bridge represents women being free and symbolizes potential and they take their liberation by confronting the the huge masculine icon being the bridge.

Ringgold

This is by Faith Ringgold. This is called flag story quilt. Well the name speaks for the piece it self. The heads represent the stars on the flag.

The newspaper article represents the white stip on the flag.This quilt has a mixture of tie-dye colors. I can't really see what the article actually says but i am guessing about the blacks being as one with the whites.