Ginger Brooks Takahashi

Ginger Brooks Takahashi (born August 4, 1977) is an American artist based in Brooklyn, New York, and North Braddock, Pennsylvania. She co-founded the feminist genderqueer collective and journal LTTR and the Mobilivre project, a touring exhibition and library. She was also a member of MEN (band). Her work consists of a collaborative project-based practice. [1]

Education

Ginger Brooks Takahashi got her BA from Oberlin College. She also participated in the Independent Study Program at the Whitney Museum of American Art.

Career


MOBILIVRE

In 2001, Brooks Takahashi helped co-found the projet MOBILIVRE-BOOKMOBILE project. The project, created by a collective of North American artists and activists, involved touring the US and Canada in a converted Airstream trailer, which served as an exhibition space, as well as a zine and art book library. The project was dedicated to exploring "the long held tradition of bookmobiles as traveling libraries that promote the distribution of information." [2] The project ran until 2006 and in 2003 it featured an issue of LTTR in the collection.[3]

LTTR

Brooks Takahashi co-founded the feminist genderqueer artist collective and annual literary journal, Lesbians To The Rescue (LTTR) with Emily Roysdon and K8 Hardy in 2002.[4]

Works

Takahashi's multimedia practices include painting, installation work, and crafts. One of her most notable works is An Army of Lovers Cannot Fail, (2004-present), a continuing series of quilting forums. Participants stitch on Takahashi's all-white quilt, and have been organized in community spaces such as homes, galleries, gardens, and other public settings. [5]

Some of Takahashi recent exhibitions include: "Shared Women" at Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, 2007; "Exile of the Imaginary" at the Generali Foundation, Vienna, 2007; "Locally Localized Gravity" at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, 2007; and "Alien She" at the Orange County Museum of Art, 2015. She has also presented at Serpentine Gallery, London, 2008; documenta 12, Kassel, 2007; Art Metropole, Toronto, 2007; and with Ridykeulous at The Kitchen, NY, 2007.[6]

References

  1. ↑ "Ginger Brooks Takahashi". Retrieved 7 March 2015.
  2. ↑ "BOOKMOBILE PROJECT". Retrieved 7 March 2015.
  3. ↑ "Projet MOBILIVRE-BOOKMOBILE Project Collection 2003". Retrieved 7 March 2015.
  4. ↑ Wagner, Gretchen L (2010). Riot on the Page: Thirty Years of Zines by Women. In Cornelia Butler and Alexandra Schwatrz (Eds.), Modern Women: Women Artists at the Museum of Modern Art, pp. 445-461. New York: The Museum of Modern Art. ISBN 978-0-87070-771-1.
  5. ↑ "AN ARMY OF LOVERS CANNOT FAIL". Brooks Takahashi is Here. Retrieved 8 March 2015.
  6. ↑ "Biography". New G:Class Museum. Retrieved 8 March 2015.

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