The Mourning Art Project

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As a woman artist, I seized an opportunity with mourning art, a historically feminine genre, to challenge chauvinism. Unlike the male-dominated art scene in New York, mourning art is formulaic and intensely expressive.

It's a landscape form portraying tombs, poetry, evergreens for the afterlife, and weeping figures. In 1978, I incorporated deceased male artists like Morris Louis and Olitsky, playfully critiquing patriarchy through this unusual representation, celebrating and mourning it simultaneously.