Began in 2009 by SMW after a multi-year hiatus from painting. Large-scale paper allowed for the painting process to become a performative actions that exorcised negative thoughts.
*The earliest archived objects in the catalog.
Listings connecting to the grouping of work “Rolled Paintings” (21)
00001-2014…
Thought works
Rolled painting
Carolee Schneemann
2014
Image of Studio object
Performative actions to exorcise negative thoughts.
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00012-2016…
Thought works
Rolled painting
2016
Image of Studio object
Rijksakademie Internal Open Studios – 07.09.20. “Artists over 70 with storages all over the world. Their children are worried, they don’t even know what’s in there. This is really a problem with artists’ families normal.” – Anon. “We [artists] have no saying, it’s up to them. Now I have a core group of people that will take care of them [my art pieces].” – SMW.
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00002-2009…
Thought works
Rolled painting
Isolde Wrawrin, Karen…
2009
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Returned gift from Tracey Emin. First painting made after many years.
“I can’t pronounce ‘femininity’ with a straight face. Woman made for woman? the wonder to the man, the rib to the cage, the noxious to the vindicate. Pray to the goddess.” – AC.
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00013-2014…
Thought works
Rolled painting
Valerie Solanos
2014
Image of Studio object
GSA inventorying session – 10.09.20. “Madness you respect.” – AC.
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00003-2009…
Thought works
Rolled painting
2009
Image of Studio object
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00014-2012…
Thought works
Rolled painting
2012
Image of Studio object
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00004-2009…
Thought works
Rolled painting
Erykah Badu
2009
Image of Studio object
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00015-2010…
Thought works
Rolled painting
Carolee Schneemann,…
2010
Image of Studio object
SMW & AC inventorying session – 08.10.20. “Maybe it doesn’t take 20 years to understand the work, as Pina Montano says, but even to face the work.” – SMW. “I’m making an executive decision that the archive will have inconsistencies.” – SMW. “How do you look at work that you made 20 years ago and don’t like or feel comfortable with? – AC. “Or relate to […] I don’t see the point in destroying things. They had a function.” – SMW. “It took me 10 years to make, my whole teenage years (‘I’m Proud of Myself’ sculpture), and I didn’t know I was making it. I was living. The accumulation is something I appreciate.” – SMW.
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00005-2009…
Thought works
Rolled painting
Agnes Denes, Angela…
2009
Image of Studio object
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00016-2011…
Thought works
Rolled painting
2011
Image of Studio object
GSA meeting – 08.02.21. “[...] names that didn’t make it into telling stories.” – MH.
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00006-2016…
Thought works
Rolled painting
2016
Image of Studio object
SMW & AC inventorying session – 24.09.20. “Staring at the wall is work.” – SMW. “Thinking is artistic labour.” – AC.
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00017-2014…
Thought works
Rolled painting
2014
Image of Studio object
Rijksakademie Internal Open Studios – 07.09.20. “[…] to archive in order to get viewers into this headspace. anon: The longer you are an artist, the more important it becomes that you cannot remember everything.” – SMW. “Is that desirable, or is it a threat? Maybe both?” – AC.
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00007-c200…
Thought works
Rolled painting
c. 2009
Image of Studio object
Early rolled paintings always text with a frame/edge.
Rijksakademie Internal Open Studios – 07.09.20. “Our archiving is sharing, it’s like opening up a heart.” – SMW.
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00018-2011…
Thought works
Rolled painting
Tracey Emin
2011
Image of Studio object
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00008-2011…
Thought works
Rolled painting
2011
Image of Studio object
In response to the Linda Nochlin 1971 essay ‘Why are there no great women artists’.
Email exchange – 22.09.20. “I am in such an art world bubble sometimes, even feminist art world bubble, that it is still fairly new and challenging to answer questions about my positioning in the general society at large in a materialist feminist sense.” – SMW.
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