Double X (feminist art collective)
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Double X was an American women's artist collective, active from 1975 to 1985 in Los Angeles, California, U.S..{{Cite book |last=Jacob |first=Mary Jane |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gzPrAAAAMAAJ |title=The Amazing Decade: Women and Performance Art in America, 1970-1980 |date=1983 |publisher=Astro Artz |isbn=978-0-937122-09-9 |pages=68 |language=en}} Their aim was to expand the visibility of art made by women. Exhibitions held by Double X displayed work by their members and other established/emerging women artists. One can find many perspectives which are now considered to be the foundation of the feminist art movement within Double X's founding statement.{{citation needed|date=March 2023}}
“We are committed to expanding the notion of what is considered art . . . .We recognize a pluralistic art that is both stylistically diverse and expressive of a variety of points of view in a framework such that although different modes may conflict with one another, they do not negate one another.”
History
Double X has been left out of many history books, but many consider their legacy is 'incontournable'. Double X comprised members such as: Faith Wilding, Audrey Chan, Barbara McCullough, Micol Hebron, Nancy Youdelman, Merion Estes, Connie Jenkins, Carol Kaufman, Rachel Rosenthal, Nancy Buchanan,{{Cite web |title=Amelia Jones in dialogue with Nancy Buchanan, “Truly for Real” |url=https://awarewomenartists.com/en/magazine/reellement-pour-de-vrai-nancy-buchanan-en-conversation-avec-amelia-jones/ |access-date=2024-09-06 |website=AWARE Women artists / Femmes artistes |language=en-US}} Jan Lester Martin, Nancy Webber, Marsia Alexander-Clarke, Vanalyne Green, Diane Calder, Mayde Herberg, Judith Simonian, Rachel Youdelman, and Vaughan Rachel.
In 2015, Chapman University's Guggenheim Gallery hosted "XX Redux: revisiting a feminist art collective," highlighted the work of many of the collective's members, and the exhibition itself reflected the continued absence of many women's voices from contemporary art galleries.{{Cite web |title=Chapman University Revisits the F Word |url=https://www.ocweekly.com/chapman-university-revisits-the-f-word-6433232/ |access-date=2023-04-14 |website=OC Weekly}}
References
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- Wilding, Faith. By Our Own Hands: The Women Artist's Movement in Southern California, 1971-76.
External links
- [http://guggenheimgallery.org/?p=3198 XX REDUX– revisiting a feminist art collective]
Category:Feminist art organizations in the United States
Category:American artist groups and collectives
Category:Arts organizations established in 1975
Category:Organizations disestablished in 1985
Category:Arts organizations disestablished in the 20th century