The Guerrilla Girls are a feminist art group founded in New York in the 80's. They produce Guerrilla artwork which brings up issues of both feminism, rascism and more recently issues about hollywood and the film industry, popular culture, stereotyping and coruption in art. Their intial work appeared in the form of poster put up around NYC but today they have a website (which the background above is borrowed from), have published books and also give presentations around the world. The Guerrilla Girls work consists of both text and graphics presenting their opinions in an comical and yet controversial way. It work a bit like a satire in drama. The comedy underlines serious political issues and draws them to peoples attention and encourages thought.
The Guerrilla Girls are most famously known for their poster which first appeared in NYC in 1989 saying "Do women have to be naked to get into the Met. Museum?" The idea behind it was to show the unequal number of paintings of men and women in the Met and show that although 85% of the portrait in the Met were of naked women, only 5% of the artists were women. Interesting a recount was performed in 2005 which found although their wer even fewer female artists in the Met, the number of naked men had increased... hehe!
Newwork includes The Venice Biennale of Art, the status of women artists in Turkey and the representation of women artists in national museums on the Mall in Washington DC.
Thought I would include a copy of the Guerrilla Girls most famous poster!
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