Janine Antoni http://www.pbs.org/art21/artists/antoni/index.html

Biography 1964- Born in Freeport Bahamas 1986- Receives her BA from Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, New York. 1989- Receives her MFA from Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, Rhode Island. 1996- Receives IMMA Glen Dimplex Artists Award from the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland. 1997- Moves to a Shaker community in Sabbathday Lake, Maine. 1998- Receives the MacArthur Fellowship award. 1999- Receives New Media Award from The Institute of Contemporary Art of Boston in Boston, Massachusetts and the Larry Aldrich Foundation Award from the Larry Aldrich Foundation in Ridgefield, Connecticut. 2004- Receives the Art by MacArthur Fellows from The MacArthur Fellows Program at Carl Solway Gallery in Cincinnati, Ohio. Presently- Resides in New York City, NY. http://www.artnet.com/awc/janine-antoni.html http://www.luhringaugustine.com/index.php?mode=artists&object_id=64

Have you ever felt pressured to fit in? “It’s too easy to have the focus on me…I want the viewer to have a relationship with the object and imagine the process.” "Gnaw" 1992 Chocolate and Lard http://www.pbs.org/art21/artists/antoni/index.html Weintraub, Linda

"Gnaw“ detail 1992 Chocolate and Lard http://www.pbs.org/art21/artists/antoni/index.html

“This is how we experience fat in our own bodies. We can’t control it “This is how we experience fat in our own bodies. We can’t control it. But perhaps we can learn to see this too, as a beautiful gesture, the aging process as beautiful.” http://www.learn.columbia.edu/fa/htm/fa_ck_antoni_1.htm Weintraub, Linda

“Saddle” 2000 Full Rawhide (cow) http://www.pbs.org/cgi-registry/mediaplayer/videoplayer.cgi?playeraddress=videoplayer.cgi;media=%2Fart21%2FJA4_video_lo.rm%2C%2Fart21%2FJA4_video_hi.rm%2C%2Fart21%2FJA4_video_lo.mov%2C%2Fart21%2FJA4_video_hi.mov%2C%2Fart21%2FJA4_video_lo.wmv%2C%2Fart21%2FJA4_video_hi.wmv;title=%22Saddle%22%20rawhide%20body%20sculpture%20by%20Janine%20Antoni;widescreen=true;playertemplate=%2Fart21%2FTemplates%2Fart21_mp.html “Saddle” 2000 Full Rawhide (cow) http://www.pbs.org/art21/artists/antoni/index.html

What do you think Antoni meant by the “absence of the cow”? "I think the startling thing for me was that I made a ghost of myself. When I’m with the piece I feel the absence, both of my body and the cow. It wasn’t necessarily something I intended for the piece, to be so ghostlike. It’s transparent...there’s nothing underneath, although the shape so articulates the figure. It’s a kind of push-pull that you feel, of such a presence of the figure. For me, the shocking thing was to realize that I’ve made a piece about the death of the cow, my own death." http://www.pbs.org/art21/artists/antoni/index.html

What features make us unique as indiviuals? What we do? Our personalities? What we look like? http://www.artnet.com/awc/janine-antoni.html

What would you make yourself out of? “Lick and Lather” detail 1993 Soap and Chocolate busts http://www.artnet.com/awc/janine-antoni.html

Who’s who? “Mom and Dad” 1994 Photographs http://www.artnet.com/awc/janine-antoni.html http://broadartfoundation.org/artist_10.html

Influences Her Body Relationships “Loving Care” 1993 Dye “If I Die Before I Wake (mother's hand meets daughter's hand in prayer)” 2004 Porcelain nightlight http://www.artnet.com/awc/janine-antoni.html

What is Janine Antoni’s Big Idea? Loss Desire http://www.pbs.org/art21/artists/antoni/index.html

Important Themes Process Identity Body Image Personal Relationships Life and Mortality

Limestone Boulders/ Steal Rod More Works “And” 1999 Limestone Boulders/ Steal Rod

Covergirl Thicklash Mascara “Butterfly Kisses” 1993 Diptych Covergirl Thicklash Mascara “Coddle” 1998 Cibachrome print and hand-carved frame http://www.pbs.org/art21/artists/antoni/index.html http://www.learn.columbia.edu/fa/htm/fa_ck_antoni_1.htm

Bathtub, Lard, Soap Corian “Momme” 1995 Cibachrome print “Eureka” 1993 Bathtub, Lard, Soap Corian “Slumber” 1993 Performance with Loom http://www.artnet.com/awc/janine-antoni.html

Exhibitions 1992-"Gnaw," Sandra Gering Gallery. New York, New York. 1994-"Hide and Seek," Anders Tornberg Gallery. Lund, Sweden.   "Slumber," Anthony d'Offay Gallery. London, United Kingdom.   "Lick and Lather," Sandra Gering Gallery. New York, New York.  1995- "Slip of the Tongue," Centre for Contemporary Arts. Glasgow, Scotland.  Traveled to Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland. 1996-"Activitats Escultural," Sala Montcada de Fundacio "la Caixa". Barcelona, Spain.   "Janine Antoni/Matrix 129," Wadsworth Atheneum. Hartford, Connecticut.   "Art at the Edge," The High Museum. Atlanta, Georgia. 1997-"Swoon," Capp Street Project. San Francisco, California.  1998-"Swoon," Whitney Museum of American Art. New York, New York. 1999- "Imbed," Luhring Augustine Gallery. New York, New York. 2001-"The Girl Made of Butter," Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum.   ARCO 2001, Project Room. Madrid, Spain. 2002-"Taught Tether Teeter," Site Santa Fe. Santa Fe, New Mexico, September 28 -January 5, 2003.   "To Draw a Line," The 2001 Sandra Garrard Memorial Lecture, Newcomb Art Department, Woldenberg Art Center, Tulane University. New Orleans, Louisiana.  2003-"To Draw a Line," Luhring Augustine Gallery. New York, New York, September 6–October 25, 2003.   "Janine Antoni: Incarnate," Albright-Knox Art Gallery. Buffalo, New York. September 13-February 1, 2004.  2004-"Touch," Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall. Stockholm, Sweden. 2005-"Ready or Not Here I Come," Institute of International Visual Arts. London, United Kingdom.   "Post Modern Portraiture," The Logan Collection Vail. Colorado.   Segalot, Philippe, curator.  "Empreinte moi," Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin. Paris, France.  2006-"Lore and Other Convergences," Live Art Development Agency initiative. London, United Kingdom.  2007-"Janine Antoni: Falk Visiting Artist," Weatherspoon Art Museum. Greensboro, North Carolina. September 23-December 23, 2007.  http://www.artnet.com/awc/janine-antoni.html

“Moor” details 2001 Installation "I asked my friends to give me materials to put into the rope. A lot of people gave me materials from friends who had passed away. Giving them to me to put into the rope is like giving them another life, another form. I wonder whether the viewer can uncover these stories through their experience of the object, whether these stories are somehow held in the material." http://www.pbs.org/art21/artists/antoni/index.html

What do you think is the symbolic meaning behind “touching” the horizon? "...I thought I could make a rope from materials of my life and walk it like a lifeline. So it’s kind of funny that I ended up walking the horizon that I could see from my bedroom." “Moor” 2001 Installation http://www.pbs.org/cgi-registry/mediaplayer/videoplayer.cgi?playeraddress=videoplayer.cgi;media=%2Fart21%2FJA2_video_lo.rm%2C%2Fart21%2FJA2_video_hi.rm%2C%2Fart21%2FJA2_video_lo.mov%2C%2Fart21%2FJA2_video_hi.mov%2C%2Fart21%2FJA1_video_lo.wmv%2C%2Fart21%2FJA1_video_hi.wmv;title=%22Touch%22%20tightrope%20video%20by%20Janine%20Antoni;widescreen=true;playertemplate=%2Fart21%2FTemplates%2Fart21_mp.html “Touch” 2003 Performance http://www.pbs.org/art21/artists/antoni/index.html

Bibliography Art 21 Series- http://www.pbs.org/art21/artists/antoni/index.html Artnet- http://www.artnet.com/awc/janine-antoni.html Broad Art Foundation, The- http://broadartfoundation.org/artist_10.html Columbia University- http://www.learn.columbia.edu/fa/htm/fa_ck_antoni_1.htm Luhring Augustine- http://www.luhringaugustine.com/index.php?mode=artists&object_id=64 Quiet in the Land, The- http://thequietintheland.com/shakers/category.php?id=janine-antoni Richards, Judith Olch- Inside the Studio: Two Decades of Talks with Artists in New York. Independent Curators International, New York. 2004. Weintraub, Linda- Art on the Edge and Over. Art Insights Inc. Litchfield. 1996.