UNLV Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art
Las Vegas, Nevada
We believe everyone deserves access to art that challenges our understanding of the present and inspires us to create a future that makes space for us all.
MessageI Am Here
- September 24, 2021 - January 29, 2022
- Exhibition
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- Artwork
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- Artists
Claudia as Whistler's Mother
- Acrylic, glitter on pulp paper
- 9.5 x 9.5 x 0.5 in
- Claudia DeMonte
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Claudia DeMonte
Claudia as Whistler's Mother (c. 1983)
Acrylic, glitter on pulp paper
Courtesy the artist.
“I started to make the doll figures be about me, but more universal. I was interested in all the things we do every day as women that art is never made about. It’s very different today. But, again, this is a long time ago. It was considered craft and not appropriate. You had to be serious; you couldn’t use certain materials. I mean the idea that you would use pulp paper, which is like a children’s clay material, and then make things about a woman’s daily life. Not the “important things” but the things we all spend hours a day doing that nobody honors.”
Claudia DeMonte in conversation with Melisa Christ and Alisha Kerlin, August 5, 2020.
Image description: Claudia as Whistler's Mother by Claudia DeMonte
A flat, textured, pulp paper sculpture of a woman sitting posed in profile in a straight-backed chair with a cat at her feet. She gazes up at an abstract, glittery painting hanging on the wall to her right.
- Created: 1983