On our first night in the city, In the subway car I caught a glimpse of this mural by Nancy Spero!! It’s located at the 66th street Lincoln center stop. She is an American artist who was married to Leon Golub. This mosaic mural is discussed in Art 21:
“Spero is a pioneer of feminist art. Her work since the 1960s is an unapologetic statement against the pervasive abuse of power, Western privilege, and male dominance. Executed with a raw intensity on paper and in ephemeral installations, her work often draws its imagery and subject matter from current and historical events such as the torture of women in Nicaragua, the extermination of Jews in the Holocaust, and the atrocities of the Vietnam War. Spero samples from a rich range of visual sources of women as protagonists—from Egyptian hieroglyphics, seventeenth-century French history painting, and Frederick’s of Hollywood lingerie advertisements. Spero’s figures co-exist in nonhierarchical compositions on monumental scrolls, and visually reinforce principles of equality and tolerance. ”
Video clip here:
http://www.art21.org/artists/nancy-spero
More about Spero’s mosaic here:
http://www.nycsubway.org/wiki/Artwork:_Artemis,_Acrobats,_Divas_and_Dancers_(Nancy_Spero)
Photo credits: Max Singler. Thanks Max 😉
