Olivia Parkes
Contributor
You Can Literally Have Sex with the Environment in This 'Ecosexual Bathhouse'
According to performance art duo Pony Express, we've fucked the biosphere. To help us fuck it more gently, their new project includes a composting glory hole, bee BDSM, and sprouting panties.
The Artist Making Paintings That Are Part Fairy Tale, Part Propaganda
Rosa Loy was one of the few female members of post-reunification Germany's New Leipzig School, but her paintings are 100 percent woman. We talked to the artist about working with history, what it's like to be part of a "movement," and why she only...
The Artist Painting History's Complicated Relationship to the Female Body
We talked to the painter Heidi Hahn about how she mines her emotions for her work, failure, and equality both in and beyond the art world.
Photos of the Inner Lives of Women
Irish photographer Hannah Starkey combines fashion, art, and commercial styles to grant her female subjects a psychological complexity that popular culture often denies them.
Britain's 'Hottest New Artist,' Now 82, on Finally Being Taken Seriously
In 2010, Germaine Greer deemed Rose Wylie, whose bold, billboard-sized paintings had caught the feminist writer's eye, Britain's "hottest new artist." Wylie was 76. We caught up with the artist to talk about how her career has changed since.
The Artist Creating a Walkway Through the Digital World
We talked to multimedia artist and award-winning poet Heather Phillipson about how her dramatic, immersive installations reflect the shifting relationship between our bodies and technology.
The Artist Highlighting Sexism with Needle and Thread
Since the 1970s, Elaine Reichek has been using the embroidered sampler—as well as collage, knitted sculpture, installation, and video—to explore power and gender through the divide between "art" and crafts.
For Artist Chantal Joffe, Mothers and Models Are Equally Awkward and Beautiful
In a new show opening in London this week, the British painter applies her signature bright colors and deft sense of character to subjects that range from her family to her favorite poets.
Uncovering Suppressed Histories of Corruption and Murder in Latin America
In Peruvian photographer Milagros de la Torre's work, documentation is a tool bound up in the narrative of power.
Talking Mermaids and Bacchanalia with Painter Allison Schulnik
In advance of her upcoming show at the Mark Moore Gallery in Los Angeles, we talked to the down-to-earth artist about being a loner, the craft worker mentality, and the mess of having a body.
These Swedish Artists Are Tackling Gender Inequality with Puppets
We talked to duo Nathalie Djurberg and Hans Berg about how they combine animation, sculpture, and sound to address political issues like gender, racism, and poverty.
Soft Paintings, Hard Women
Amy Cutler's bizarre, delicate paintings are an unsettling kind of folksy. We talked to the internationally acclaimed, Brooklyn-based artist about goats, anxiety dreams, and "women's work."