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Crude Prototypes
mixed media
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2021
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Bloom, concept drawing of open speculum
graphite on paper
dimensions variable
2021
courtesy of the artist. drawing credit:
Jessica Taylor Bellemy
Bloom, concept drawing of closed speculum
graphite on paper
dimensions variable
2021
courtesy of the artist. drawing credit:
Jessica Taylor Bellemy
Bloom, concept drawing of speculum in use
graphite on paper
dimensions variable
2021
courtesy of the artist. drawing credit:
Jessica Taylor Bellemy[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=\”.vc_custom_1621020727604{margin-top: 30px !important;background-color: #b5e1f5 !important;}\”][/vc_column_text][/vc_accordion_tab][/vc_accordion][vc_empty_space][/vc_column][vc_column width=\”1/6\” css=\”.vc_custom_1618274163042{margin-left: 70px !important;}\”][/vc_column][vc_column width=\”1/6\”][/vc_column][vc_column width=\”1/6\” css=\”.vc_custom_1620850247934{margin-right: 30px !important;background-color: #b5e1f5 !important;}\”][vc_accordion active_tab=\”1\” collapsible=\”yes\” style=\”boxed_accordion\”][vc_accordion_tab title=\”Captions\” title_color=\”#000000\” background_color=\”#b5e1f5\” el_id=\”longcaption1\”][vc_column_text css=\”.vc_custom_1621612265678{margin-top: 30px !important;background-color: #b5e1f5 !important;}\”]Image Slider Above (left to right):
Sims Skylar speculum drawing
graphite on paper
dimensions variable
2021
courtesy of the artist. drawing credit:
Jessica Taylor Bellemy
Graves speculum drawing
graphite on paper
dimensions variable
2021
courtesy of the artist. drawing credit:
Jessica Taylor Bellemy
Bloom, concept drawing
graphite on paper
dimensions variable
2021
courtesy of the artist. drawing credit:
Jessica Taylor Bellemy
Rusher McPherson speculum drawing
graphite on paper
dimensions variable
2021
courtesy of the artist. drawing credit:
Jessica Taylor Bellemy
Cook Graefe Killian speculum drawing
graphite on paper
dimensions variable
2021
courtesy of the artist. drawing credit:
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[/vc_column_text][/vc_accordion_tab][/vc_accordion][vc_empty_space][/vc_column][vc_column width=\”1/4\” css=\”.vc_custom_1616014735469{margin-left: 50px !important;}\”][vc_empty_space][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row row_type=\”row\” use_row_as_full_screen_section=\”no\” type=\”grid\” anchor=\”Current\” in_content_menu=\”in_content_menu\” content_menu_title=\”Current Exhibitions\” icon_pack=\”font_awesome\” content_menu_fa_icon=\”\” text_align=\”left\” background_animation=\”none\” css_animation=\”\” css=\”.vc_custom_1617826377395{background-color: rgba(188,188,188,0.36) !important;*background-color: rgb(188,188,188) !important;}\”][vc_column css=\”.vc_custom_1616014326485{margin-right: 60px !important;}\”][vc_empty_space][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text css=\”.vc_custom_1622070540334{border-right-width: 2px !important;border-left-width: 2px !important;padding-right: 30px !important;padding-left: 30px !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-left-style: solid !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-right-style: solid !important;}\”]Nao Bustamante’s work has a long history of thinking through issues around women’s bodies. In considering her past works, where the principal concern has been how to protect or make the body vulnerable, Bustamante discusses how her newest work, Bloom, continues this concern by entering new-to-her fields of medical technology and design.
Stemming from a 2013 gynecology appointment and conversations with friends, Bustamante became interested in re-designing the speculum. Expanding on the idea of a spaceship going through space, Bustamante, in collaboration with artist Jessica Taylor Bellemy, has reimagined the speculum as fantastical, organic and accessible through this series of drawings that envision new, feminist aesthetic possibilities in a male-dominated medical field. As Bustamante continues this project into the prototype phase beyond C.O.L.A. 2021, she hopes that this work “makes these conversations less taboo” and that ultimately leads to comfort both in, out, and around the female body.
Working across performance, video and sculpture, Nao Bustamante’s (b. 1969, San Joaquin Valley, California, she/her) work explores the female body. Bustamante has exhibited at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, the New York Museum of Modern Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Sundance International Film Festival, El Museo del Barrio Museum of Contemporary Art, First International Performance Biennial, Deformes in Santiago, Chile, and the Kiasma Museum of Helsinki. Bustamante is an alum of the San Francisco Art Institute, New Genres program and the Skowhegen School of Painting and Sculpture. She is an Associate Professor and Vice Dean of Art at the Roski School of Art and Design at USC.[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row row_type=\”row\” use_row_as_full_screen_section=\”no\” type=\”full_width\” text_align=\”left\” background_animation=\”none\” css_animation=\”\” css=\”.vc_custom_1616013224027{background-color: rgba(188,188,188,0.36) !important;*background-color: rgb(188,188,188) !important;}\”][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=\”64px\”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row row_type=\”row\” use_row_as_full_screen_section=\”no\” type=\”grid\” anchor=\”Current\” in_content_menu=\”in_content_menu\” content_menu_title=\”Current Exhibitions\” icon_pack=\”font_awesome\” content_menu_fa_icon=\”\” text_align=\”left\” background_animation=\”none\” css_animation=\”\” el_id=\”BODY TEXT\” css=\”.vc_custom_1616015029709{background-color: #b5e1f5 !important;}\”][vc_column width=\”1/6\” css=\”.vc_custom_1615315385156{margin-top: 50px !important;}\”][/vc_column][vc_column width=\”2/3\” css=\”.vc_custom_1615934264074{margin-top: 50px !important;margin-bottom: 50px !important;border-right-width: 2px !important;border-left-width: 2px !important;padding-right: 100px !important;padding-left: 100px !important;}\”][vc_empty_space][/vc_column][vc_column width=\”1/6\” css=\”.vc_custom_1615315392532{margin-top: 50px !important;}\”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row row_type=\”row\” use_row_as_full_screen_section=\”no\” type=\”full_width\” text_align=\”left\” background_animation=\”none\” css_animation=\”\” css=\”.vc_custom_1616013224027{background-color: rgba(188,188,188,0.36) !important;*background-color: rgb(188,188,188) !important;}\”][vc_column][vc_empty_space][vc_empty_space][vc_empty_space][/vc_column][/vc_row]
May 13, 2021