![]() Beyond an inversion of the male gaze, Red Not Blue explored the politics of gendered embodiment by emphasizing the materiality of the male body, which often enjoys the empowered status of abstract personhood in contrast to the hypermateriality of the female body. There was a live audience present at the performance, which took place at the Shohsana Wayne Gallery in Santa Monica, California, and there was a violinist playing throughout its duration. In Red Not Blue Lachowicz marked the nude body of a muscular man with red lipstick wax and instructed him to press his body against large pieces of paper in order to create silhouettes of his form. Her performance Red Not Blue of 1992 gained attention in the art world for her provocative reinterpretation of artist Yves Klein Anthropométries performance of 1960. Through this choice of material, Lachowicz explores issues of consumption, cosmetic politics, family ritual, embodiment, and abstraction. Her work raises questions that exceed the purview of appropriation, as her complex utilization of materials and rigorous production process push a wide range of established boundaries.Īpart from quoting iconic art made by men, Lachowicz further subverts that male canon through her use of lipstick, generally associated with femininity, as a material. Since the 1980s, the artist’s appropriations have articulated a feminist position regarding the exclusion of women from art history and the continued inequities that women experience in the art world today. Lipstick feminists embraced sexuality and feminized modes of body crafting such as utilizing makeup while articulating critiques of male domination. In the 1990s she was associated with a movement termed 'Lipstick Feminism', which also claimed artists such as Janine Antoni. ![]() Her work complicates established divisions between abstraction and the body, appropriation and homage, the cosmetic and the artistic, commodities and crafts, subjectivity and objectification. Lachowicz’s practice includes sculpture, painting, performance, and other media. She is an associate Professor of Studio Art at Claremont Graduate University and has served as chair of the department. Lachowicz earned her BFA in 1988 from the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, California. She is primarily recognized for appropriating canonical works by modern and contemporary male artists such as Carl Andre and Richard Serra and recreating them using red lipstick. Rachel Lachowicz ( / ˈ l æ k ə w ɪ t s/ LACK-ə-wits born 1964) is an American artist based in Los Angeles, California. ![]() Conceptual art, Installation art, Studio art
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