Miriam Schapiro is a pioneer in feminist art that reevaluates roles
assigned to women in art and society. She embraces those crafts traditionally
associated with women, and uses them as a foundation for her art in an attempt
to give further credence to the role that women have played in the history of
art. Schapiro is one of the first artists in history to make art addressing
the feminine experience.
The prints she created at Tandem Press continue in
the vein of her paintings Collaboration Series: Mother Russia. Her new prints
recall figurines created by the Russian avant-garde artist Alexandra Exter
for ballet and theater costumes.
Schapiro states that these works "represent
a continuation of an ongoing series of collaborations [she] began many years
ago. These imaginary collaborations combine [her] own ideas and collage/femmage
impulse with concepts and images derived partially from paintings made by
celebrated women of the past."
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