Janine Antoni

Just saw a really great lecture by artist Janine Antoni. All of her work is impressive, to say the least. It was really interesting to hear her process behind her pieces, and her role in making each sculpture. The role of the artist's body is intertwined within the idea of art making, and acts as a basis for the final product/piece.

"Antoni’s work blurs the distinction between performance art and sculpture. Transforming everyday activities such as eating, bathing, and sleeping into ways of making art, Antoni’s primary tool for making sculpture has always been her own body. She has chiseled cubes of lard and chocolate with her teeth, washed away the faces of soap busts made in her own likeness, and used the brainwave signals recorded while she dreamed at night as a pattern for weaving a blanket the following morning." - PBS Art 21