Vadis Turner

Vadis Turner

A New York artist who attended Boston University, she was fascinated by the possibilities presented by traditional handicraft materials to define and contradict gender roles by creating desirable objects and becoming objects of beauty has long been the work of women. Her craft is like her image, is “a measure of a woman's worth and tangible evidence of her time” she said.

What caught my eye initially was her ribbon collection; she tied different colors and width of ribbons on the canvas, creating the look of ribbons coming out from the canvas in a beautiful way. Some times she uses colors of the same palate, but some times she choose couple of colors that would stand out from the rest, representing something. Later on I went on to her website and saw her other works, she gather those jewels of gold or silver color and put them together making a art work out of it, which I thought her works are not only nice to look at but also meaningful. She is also good at setting up scenes, using her aspect of beauty, messy of it’s own way, the colors and materials works with each other really well, creating the atmosphere.

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Leah McSweeney

Leah McSweeney - Married to the mob
Leah is the CEO and founder of Married To The Mob clothingline. I was reading a megazine another day and i came across the name of this brand which i had to look up where did the idea came from. Then later on found out that this brand was founded by this female, who actually had money to set up this line because of a funny story. She received $75000 settlement from the police in an accident for breaking her two teeth, she used this money and set up the line. She was feature in different magazines such as vogue, for her bold and straight forward ideas. She was strongly influenced by her friends and surroundings, thought that there are so many street brands around for men, but there arn't many for women, so she went crazy and started the line, which she has done a lot of different collaboration with big brands such as Lacoste, Reebok, Nike, Baby G, Karmaloop, Supreme etc. It had it's first collection in 2004 and til now, she started by making her own samples of clothing then later on established the one of a kind style.
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Ai Wei Wei

Ai Wei Wei

Ai Wei Wei is a Chinese artist who went to Beijing film school and Parsons New York, and was also the art director for Beijing’s bird nest Olympic arena.

Ai Wei Wei doesn’t only make artwork, but also involved in a lot of social argument and issues, pointing out corrupting government works; which the Chinese government weren’t so happy about, and decided to lock him up in 2011.

This is one of his artwork below, which it has a lot more meaning to it in this image. Ai Wei Wei is in the center of the image, hands on the knee, showing the center power of the government. The women on the far left who is wearing a air of glasses and playing with her hair meant to represent the people with knowledge, professors, scholars, who has a lot of power to show off, but still, facing the central government, showing government has the total control of them. The women with jewels on the far right is curvy, representing working class and leaning to the right, different to the government, leaning different directions and sitting a little bit further. The little lady sitting on the side of central government is the media and the lady behind represents the peasants and lower class that has no power at all. This work has been attached by many government supporters, but also being supported by a lot of artists all over the world.