Ana Mendieta Tote ~ Jennifer Sullivan (hand-painted)
This one-of-a-kind tote bag was hand-painted by New York based artist, Jennifer Sullivan featuring an homage to artist Ana Mendieta on one side, and a quote from Mendieta on the other.
14 × 14 × 3” with 11” straps
100% Cotton
3” side and bottom gusset
Jennifer Sullivan is a painter who lives and works in Ridgewood, Queens, whose studio-based painting practice evolved from earlier autobiographical performance and video-centered work. She has often described her paintings as a diary and a form of psychoanalysis. Jennifer Sullivan received her BFA from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY and her MFA in Fine Art from Parsons School of Design, New York, NY. Recent solo exhibitions include Original Face at Deli Grocery Gallery, Ridgewood, NY (2022), Sleeper at Turn Gallery, New York, NY (2021), Devotional Paintings at Julius Caesar, Chicago, IL (2020), Exiled Parts at No Place Gallery, Columbus, OH (2019), and the soft animal of your body at Emma Gray HQ, Los Angeles, CA (2018). Sullivan has exhibited widely, including exhibitions at NADA Miami, Peter Blum Gallery, Marinaro, Brennan and Griffin, Rod Barton, Marvin Gardens, Safe Gallery, Klaus Von Nichtsaggend, and the deCordova Museum. Awards include fellowships with Paint School at Shandaken Projects (2020) and the Fine Arts Work Center (2012-13), and residencies at the Lighthouse Works, the Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture, the Ox-Bow School of Art, and Yaddo. Her work has been reviewed in the NY Times, the Brooklyn Rail, and Art Papers.
Jennifer’s paintings were featured in Personal Space’s inaugural show, Salad Days, in 2023.
https://www.jennifersullivan.org/tshirts-1
https://www.instagram.com/jennifersullivanstudio/
Ana Mendieta was born in Havana on November 18, 1948. At the age of 12, after her father joined anti-Castro counterrevolutionary forces, Mendieta was sent to the United States with her sister under Operation Pedro Pan. They spent their first weeks in refugee camps before being sent to an orphanage in Dubuque, Iowa. In 1966, the year she began studying painting at the University of Iowa, Mendieta was reunited with her mother and younger brother; her father joined them in 1979, having spent 18 years in a Cuban political prison for his involvement in the Bay of Pigs invasion.
Mendieta received a BA in art in 1969 and an MA in painting in 1972, both from the University of Iowa. Seeking a more powerful means of image making, Mendieta then enrolled in the university's progressive MFA Intermedia Program, founded and led by the German artist Hans Breder. She found an affinity with the work of Vito Acconci, Lynda Benglis, Chris Burden, Bruce Nauman, Robert Smithson, and Carolee Schneeman, as well as the work of the Viennese Actionists and the Fluxus group. She quickly developed a prolific practice in which her body, the earth, and other organic materials such as blood, fire, feathers, and wood served as the subject of photographs, slides, films, and videos, as well as performances, prints, and artist's books. In 1973 Mendieta traveled with her MFA class to Mexico, where she began her Silueta (Silhouette) series (1973–80), in which her body, or more often, a simple outline of her figure, was impressed into various sites outdoors and the impression documented through photography or film. That same year she performed Untitled (Rape Scene) in her apartment in response to the rape and murder of a local student, and made the video Sweating Blood; in both works she again used her own body to address violence against women.
In the mid-1970s Mendieta started exhibiting internationally and regularly visiting New York, eventually moving to the city in 1978, a few months after completing her MFA. In 1979 she presented a solo exhibition of her photographs at A.I.R. Gallery in New York, where she met the Minimalist sculptor Carl Andre, whom she would marry in 1985. In 1980 Mendieta was awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship and a National Endowment for the Arts grant. She was also invited to exhibit in shows sponsored by the Cuban government, and this initiated a period of reconnection with her homeland. In 1983 she spent a year in Italy as the recipient of the Rome Prize, during which she realized studio-based sculpture for the first time. From 1983 until her death in September 1985, Mendieta lived between Rome and New York.
The New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York hosted Mendieta's first survey exhibition in 1987, and in 2004 the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C., organized a major traveling retrospective. In 2009 Mendieta was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Cintas Foundation.
This one-of-a-kind tote bag was hand-painted by New York based artist, Jennifer Sullivan featuring an homage to artist Ana Mendieta on one side, and a quote from Mendieta on the other.
14 × 14 × 3” with 11” straps
100% Cotton
3” side and bottom gusset
Jennifer Sullivan is a painter who lives and works in Ridgewood, Queens, whose studio-based painting practice evolved from earlier autobiographical performance and video-centered work. She has often described her paintings as a diary and a form of psychoanalysis. Jennifer Sullivan received her BFA from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY and her MFA in Fine Art from Parsons School of Design, New York, NY. Recent solo exhibitions include Original Face at Deli Grocery Gallery, Ridgewood, NY (2022), Sleeper at Turn Gallery, New York, NY (2021), Devotional Paintings at Julius Caesar, Chicago, IL (2020), Exiled Parts at No Place Gallery, Columbus, OH (2019), and the soft animal of your body at Emma Gray HQ, Los Angeles, CA (2018). Sullivan has exhibited widely, including exhibitions at NADA Miami, Peter Blum Gallery, Marinaro, Brennan and Griffin, Rod Barton, Marvin Gardens, Safe Gallery, Klaus Von Nichtsaggend, and the deCordova Museum. Awards include fellowships with Paint School at Shandaken Projects (2020) and the Fine Arts Work Center (2012-13), and residencies at the Lighthouse Works, the Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture, the Ox-Bow School of Art, and Yaddo. Her work has been reviewed in the NY Times, the Brooklyn Rail, and Art Papers.
Jennifer’s paintings were featured in Personal Space’s inaugural show, Salad Days, in 2023.
https://www.jennifersullivan.org/tshirts-1
https://www.instagram.com/jennifersullivanstudio/
Ana Mendieta was born in Havana on November 18, 1948. At the age of 12, after her father joined anti-Castro counterrevolutionary forces, Mendieta was sent to the United States with her sister under Operation Pedro Pan. They spent their first weeks in refugee camps before being sent to an orphanage in Dubuque, Iowa. In 1966, the year she began studying painting at the University of Iowa, Mendieta was reunited with her mother and younger brother; her father joined them in 1979, having spent 18 years in a Cuban political prison for his involvement in the Bay of Pigs invasion.
Mendieta received a BA in art in 1969 and an MA in painting in 1972, both from the University of Iowa. Seeking a more powerful means of image making, Mendieta then enrolled in the university's progressive MFA Intermedia Program, founded and led by the German artist Hans Breder. She found an affinity with the work of Vito Acconci, Lynda Benglis, Chris Burden, Bruce Nauman, Robert Smithson, and Carolee Schneeman, as well as the work of the Viennese Actionists and the Fluxus group. She quickly developed a prolific practice in which her body, the earth, and other organic materials such as blood, fire, feathers, and wood served as the subject of photographs, slides, films, and videos, as well as performances, prints, and artist's books. In 1973 Mendieta traveled with her MFA class to Mexico, where she began her Silueta (Silhouette) series (1973–80), in which her body, or more often, a simple outline of her figure, was impressed into various sites outdoors and the impression documented through photography or film. That same year she performed Untitled (Rape Scene) in her apartment in response to the rape and murder of a local student, and made the video Sweating Blood; in both works she again used her own body to address violence against women.
In the mid-1970s Mendieta started exhibiting internationally and regularly visiting New York, eventually moving to the city in 1978, a few months after completing her MFA. In 1979 she presented a solo exhibition of her photographs at A.I.R. Gallery in New York, where she met the Minimalist sculptor Carl Andre, whom she would marry in 1985. In 1980 Mendieta was awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship and a National Endowment for the Arts grant. She was also invited to exhibit in shows sponsored by the Cuban government, and this initiated a period of reconnection with her homeland. In 1983 she spent a year in Italy as the recipient of the Rome Prize, during which she realized studio-based sculpture for the first time. From 1983 until her death in September 1985, Mendieta lived between Rome and New York.
The New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York hosted Mendieta's first survey exhibition in 1987, and in 2004 the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C., organized a major traveling retrospective. In 2009 Mendieta was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Cintas Foundation.
This one-of-a-kind tote bag was hand-painted by New York based artist, Jennifer Sullivan featuring an homage to artist Ana Mendieta on one side, and a quote from Mendieta on the other.
14 × 14 × 3” with 11” straps
100% Cotton
3” side and bottom gusset
Jennifer Sullivan is a painter who lives and works in Ridgewood, Queens, whose studio-based painting practice evolved from earlier autobiographical performance and video-centered work. She has often described her paintings as a diary and a form of psychoanalysis. Jennifer Sullivan received her BFA from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY and her MFA in Fine Art from Parsons School of Design, New York, NY. Recent solo exhibitions include Original Face at Deli Grocery Gallery, Ridgewood, NY (2022), Sleeper at Turn Gallery, New York, NY (2021), Devotional Paintings at Julius Caesar, Chicago, IL (2020), Exiled Parts at No Place Gallery, Columbus, OH (2019), and the soft animal of your body at Emma Gray HQ, Los Angeles, CA (2018). Sullivan has exhibited widely, including exhibitions at NADA Miami, Peter Blum Gallery, Marinaro, Brennan and Griffin, Rod Barton, Marvin Gardens, Safe Gallery, Klaus Von Nichtsaggend, and the deCordova Museum. Awards include fellowships with Paint School at Shandaken Projects (2020) and the Fine Arts Work Center (2012-13), and residencies at the Lighthouse Works, the Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture, the Ox-Bow School of Art, and Yaddo. Her work has been reviewed in the NY Times, the Brooklyn Rail, and Art Papers.
Jennifer’s paintings were featured in Personal Space’s inaugural show, Salad Days, in 2023.
https://www.jennifersullivan.org/tshirts-1
https://www.instagram.com/jennifersullivanstudio/
Ana Mendieta was born in Havana on November 18, 1948. At the age of 12, after her father joined anti-Castro counterrevolutionary forces, Mendieta was sent to the United States with her sister under Operation Pedro Pan. They spent their first weeks in refugee camps before being sent to an orphanage in Dubuque, Iowa. In 1966, the year she began studying painting at the University of Iowa, Mendieta was reunited with her mother and younger brother; her father joined them in 1979, having spent 18 years in a Cuban political prison for his involvement in the Bay of Pigs invasion.
Mendieta received a BA in art in 1969 and an MA in painting in 1972, both from the University of Iowa. Seeking a more powerful means of image making, Mendieta then enrolled in the university's progressive MFA Intermedia Program, founded and led by the German artist Hans Breder. She found an affinity with the work of Vito Acconci, Lynda Benglis, Chris Burden, Bruce Nauman, Robert Smithson, and Carolee Schneeman, as well as the work of the Viennese Actionists and the Fluxus group. She quickly developed a prolific practice in which her body, the earth, and other organic materials such as blood, fire, feathers, and wood served as the subject of photographs, slides, films, and videos, as well as performances, prints, and artist's books. In 1973 Mendieta traveled with her MFA class to Mexico, where she began her Silueta (Silhouette) series (1973–80), in which her body, or more often, a simple outline of her figure, was impressed into various sites outdoors and the impression documented through photography or film. That same year she performed Untitled (Rape Scene) in her apartment in response to the rape and murder of a local student, and made the video Sweating Blood; in both works she again used her own body to address violence against women.
In the mid-1970s Mendieta started exhibiting internationally and regularly visiting New York, eventually moving to the city in 1978, a few months after completing her MFA. In 1979 she presented a solo exhibition of her photographs at A.I.R. Gallery in New York, where she met the Minimalist sculptor Carl Andre, whom she would marry in 1985. In 1980 Mendieta was awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship and a National Endowment for the Arts grant. She was also invited to exhibit in shows sponsored by the Cuban government, and this initiated a period of reconnection with her homeland. In 1983 she spent a year in Italy as the recipient of the Rome Prize, during which she realized studio-based sculpture for the first time. From 1983 until her death in September 1985, Mendieta lived between Rome and New York.
The New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York hosted Mendieta's first survey exhibition in 1987, and in 2004 the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C., organized a major traveling retrospective. In 2009 Mendieta was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Cintas Foundation.