• The Home that the Woman’s Building Built: Cheri Gaulke and Sue Maberry Construct a Visual Narrative of the Lesbian Family

    Author(s):
    Anne Swartz (see profile)
    Editor(s):
    Margo Hobbs
    Date:
    2010
    Subject(s):
    Feminism and art, History, Art
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    Queer and feminist performance, Feminist art history, Art history
    Permanent URL:
    http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/M6T26J
    Abstract:
    Artists Cheri Gaulke and Sue Maberry’s feminist activism learned at the Woman’s Building, combined with their lesbianism, radi-calized them to create ongoing documentation of their family. This article examines how Gaulke has intertwined her domestic, private imagery and narrative with her artistic, public work in a way that reveals a useful mode for her to examine the range of experiences as lesbian, parent, and artist. Thus, these two bodies of work co-exist and inform each other in her oeuvre and in her art with partner Maberry. They have created a kind of sexualized display sometimes inverting heteronormative conventions while other times presenting the family as a single unit, transgressive in its happiness and unity.
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    Pub. Date:
    2010
    Journal:
    Journal of Lesbian Studies
    Volume:
    14
    Page Range:
    201 - 237
    Status:
    Published
    Last Updated:
    6 years ago
    License:
    All Rights Reserved
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