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Several years ago two Brazen Hussies discussed the idea of promoting the work of female artists who were bold, unafraid, and challenged male norms. Ruth Waters, Founder and Executive Director Emerita of the Peninsula Museum of Art in Burlingame, CA, and Corinne Whitaker, CEO and Chief Imagineer of the Digital Giraffe Empire, decided to devote a special section on giraffe.com to these extraordinary artists.

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Breasts at the Venice Biennale
Breasts
Agnes Questionmark examines the transgender body as seen in "patriarchal biopolitics"
Questionmark
Marlene Dumas confronts our animal instincts
Dumas
Jana Euler's "Great White Fear" in phallic shark paintings
Euler
Ebecho Muslimovs and her uninhibited alter ego
ego
Rocio Molina with her "jaw-dropping fetish flamenco"
Molina
Thaddeus Ropac, the female body as "bearer of information"
Ropac
Judith Bernstein, provocative critiques
bernstein (quoting Bernstein in 2018: "I AM SHOWING TRUMP FOR WHAT HE IS: A FOOL, A MONSTER, A JESTER, A SEXIST, A RACIST. DONALD TRUMP IS A CON ARTIST, USING THE WHITE HOUSE AS HIS PERSONAL CASH MACHINE."
Pussy Riot - we would be remiss not to mention the courage of these women, soon to be a TV series
riot
Anna Aagaard, sculpture based on female anatomy
Aagaard and Anna
Lisa Brice, turning art history on its head
Brice and critique
Ren Hang, Photography
Hang
Sarah Lucas, "Happy Gas"
lucas
Corinne Whitaker - "Native Son"
whitaker
Clarity Haynes, Torsos
Haynes
Boryana Rossa, Bulgarian visual artist and perfomer
rossa
Christina Quarles- what it's like to be in a body
Quarles
Alannah Farrell
farrell
Catherine Opie
opie
and Catherine Opie, "All American Subversive"
subversive
Lee Lozano, "Strike"
Lozano
Lolita Eno, "The Beast Within"
Eno
Cyclona, "Founding Mother of Southern California’s Chicano Drag Scene"
Cyclona
Somaya Critchlow's No-Go Zone
somaya
Miss Van, aka Vanessa Alice, "Evanescent Splendor"
splendor
Marnie Weber's Sculpture and Costumes
Weber and costumes
The World of "Carnival Strippers"
strippers
Ana Benaroya's "intensity of lesbian desire"
benaroya
Yushi Li questions the eroticization of the male body
li
Li also uses her photography to examine the role of patriarchy in nudity
Yushi
Penny Goring's works have been called "freaky explorations of womanhood" and are indeed provocative.
Goring
While not strictly an art site, Frida Guerrera is gaining prominence as Mexico's Femicide Detective
Guerrera
Jesse Mockrin, strong erotic paintings combining historical references with contemporary issues, especially about violence to women
mockrin
Hein Koh's Broccoli Women
Koh
Elizabeth Glaessner's dreamworlds filled with primordial figures
glaessner
Rose Nestler, Fantasy Body
Nestler
Nona Faustine, author of "White Shoes"
Faustine. And here are photographs from her newest book
"Of Peonies and Penises: Anita Steckel's Legacy". I especially like this quote: "If the erect penis is not wholesome enough to go into museums, it should not be considered wholesome enough to go into women."
Legacy
Anita Steckel at the Sackler Center for Feminist Art
Steckel
Betty Dodson: "Learn a new Orgasm: How to Upgrade Your Masturbation Technique"
Dodson
!Brazen Hussy, SIGGRAPH, 2021
hussy
Fatness and Feminism
Saville
Patricia Piccinini
piccinini
Cathrin Hoffmann, "The Big Why"
Hoffmann
Ali Wong - performance artist, "Baby Cobra" and "Hard Knock Wife"
wong (YouTube video - watch on Netflix for complete shows).
"Reclaiming Women's Bodies" - Photographs of Older Women
bodies
What is the Breast Dress?
breast
Sarah Lucas, "Hurricane Doris"
Lucas
Public Vulva Sculpture
vulva
Rico Nasty and "Own It" - Music with a Big Attitude
Nasty
Prado Museum's exhibition on Spanish Sexism
Prado
Julie Curtiss shows females packed into predetermined boxes
Curtiss
Cathrin Hoffmann's sophisticated social and gender imaging
hoffmann (be sure to look at 2019 also - these are gems)
Eva Kotakova's immersive installations
kotatkova
Patty Carroll's Anonymous Women
carroll
Judith Bernstein, Penis Paintings
bernstein
Bernstein at her Studio
judith
Bernstein "Sticks it to the Man"
sticks
Emma Talbot, 2020 winner of the Max Mara Art Prize for Women (Be sure to click on Drawings)
talbot
More of Talbot's work (Follow the arrows)
emma
Amanda Sage, "To Lift the Skirt"
sage
Xandra Ibarra shocks San Antonio, Texas
ibarra
Penny Slinger, a surprise to many and a joy to discover
slinger
Guerrilla Girls "Giving the Art World Hell since 1985"
guerrilla
Vagina Museum
vagina
Faceless Women and Fungi: Ewa Juszkiewicz
Ewa
Fasten your seatbelts on this one: It has a lot to say and says it provocatively and without flinching. It's called "Opulence/ContraPoint."
opulence
Rebecca Morgan, Stereotypes of Appalachia
Morgan
Elinor Carucci, "Intimate Self-Portrait of Womanhood in Middle Age"
womanhood
More Carucci Intimate Portraits
portraits
Mary Beth Edelson, "The Devil Giving Birth to the Patriarchy"
edelson
Edelson's 'Kali Bobbit" up close
Kali
Maccarone Gallery, "The Other and Otherwise"
maccarone
Nancy Davidson, "erotic, funny, absurd and huge". Also our Site of the Month - she is that good.
Davidson
Donna-Huanca with Peres Projects
huanca
Donna-Huanca, "Destabilizing the Male Gaze"
gaze
Miriam Cahn and her "Necessary Effrontery"
cahn
More of Cahn's works
miriam
Dorian Electra and their gender-fluid identity ("I'm not a woman dressing as a man".)
Electra
Martha Wilson's Mona needs but one image to speak volumes
mona
See more of Wilson's acerbic visual commentary
wilson
Renate Bertlmann, Austrian avant-garde feminist (click on individual images)
bertlmann
Bertlmann once more
images
West Dakota, a touch of drag
dakota
"A Brief history of female rage in art"
rage
Carolee Schneemann, pioneering booster of the body and its pleasures
schneemann
Conversation - Jeannine Redon celebrates her husband's birthday with French wit.
jeannine
Ruth Waters does a full frontal sculpture of maleness
waters
And Waters treats us to the back view as well
waters2
French Bearded Lady
bearded
Lozen, Warrior and Shaman
warrior
Empress Wu Zetian
empress
Aunties Project by Aleah Chapin
aunties
Misha Japanwala's "Azaadi" garments
azaadi
More Japanwala Sculptural garments
japanwala
Suzy Kellems Dominik and her giant neon vagina
vagina
Dorothea Tanning and her soft sculptures of women in pain
Tanning
Eccentric Women in contemporary society
Women
Sarah Lucas and her "genitalia extravaganza"
lucas
Leonor Fini, "Woman Seated on a Naked Man"
fini
Leonor Fini, "Sex, Surrealism, and DeSade"
leonor
Christina Quarles, "Baby, I Want Yew to Know All tha Folks I am"
Quarles
Quarles "Small Offerings"
christina
Quarles "Carnal Configuration"
configurations
"Rape's Heroic Underpinnings"
rape
Anne Brigman, photographing yourself naked 100 years ago
brigman
Jenny Saville's utterly fearless depictions of the female body
passage
And Saville's portrait that just set an auction record for living female artists
portrait
Hannah Yata's luscious paintings
hannahyata
Anna Aagaard Jensen tackles "manspreading"
chair
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Last updated February 1, 2024 - 30 years of monthly Web publication
Corinne Whitaker - Artist, Editor, Author, Poet, Sculptor, Publisher, Composer, Betaphysician, Chief of the Newanderthal Tribe
Best of Foster City 2016
Best of Palo Alto 2013

Golden Web Award, 2001 and 2000

Artist of the Month, Artisan Bazaar, 2000
Best in Cyberart Award, 1999
winner of BATech's "Catch of the Day"
winner of Fractal Design's "Artist of the Month"and "Image of the Day"
Featured Master Artist, Shadowart Galleries, 1997 and 1998
Guest Artist of the Month, Hampton Click Salon Online
Exhibit below from Virtual Gallery online