Our City Dreams

Another Movie of Interest

"Our City Dreams"

Filmmaker Chiara Clemente, daughter of renowned Italian painter Francesco Clemente, tracks the journeys of five female artists whose stories are tied to New York City in this biographic portrait shot over the course of two years. The documentary spotlights the work of Egyptian artist Ghada Amer, Serbian performance artist Marina Abramovic, American artist Kiki Smith, Big Apple street artist Swoon, and American artist and activist Nancy Spero.

Who Does She Think She Is? THEATRICAL TRAILER

Marina Abramovic - nytimes.com/video

Thread Sketches

For more information take a look at Jaime Lyerly's blog:

http://www.jaimelyerly.blogspot.com/

Julie Mehretu tells the story of her art

After our discussion on presenting our work and telling our story, I thought this would be a good addition to the debate.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k04kA7hJ8x8

Member at large Mary Conway

We had an invigorating discussion at our monthly seminar group of abstract painters. We discussed the artists and their work between World Wars I and II. One person, an art historian and artist, led the discussion with three others who did research on individual artists. It was great.