Flo-Jo World Record Nails
Dublin Core
Title
Flo-Jo World Record Nails
Subject
Social and Cultural Identities
Description
Collection features an examination of art that use hair and fingernails as subjects or media in order to explore the complexities of identity, and issues such as gender, politics and consumerism.
Creator
Pamela Council
Source
http://www.pamelacouncil.com/flo-jo-world-record-nails
Publisher
Pamela Council
Date
Artwork Debuted: 2012
Contributor
Collection Archived, Courtesy of the Artist: Pamela Council
Rights
Images Courtesy of Artist, Pamela Council
Relation
Article: Flo-Jo's Olympic Manicure And Feminism In Art
https://www.bustle.com/articles/71192-pamela-council-brings-flo-jos-world-record-nails-to-studio-museum-and-its-pretty-awesome
Article: The Construction of the Self and the American Dream
An Interview with Pamela Council
https://www.arcadeprojectzine.com/features/the-construction-of-the-self-and-the-american-dream
https://www.bustle.com/articles/71192-pamela-council-brings-flo-jos-world-record-nails-to-studio-museum-and-its-pretty-awesome
Article: The Construction of the Self and the American Dream
An Interview with Pamela Council
https://www.arcadeprojectzine.com/features/the-construction-of-the-self-and-the-american-dream
Format
Sculpture : Images
Language
English
Type
African American
Sculpture
Sculpture
Identifier
FLO JO
Coverage
Studio Museum of Art, 2012
Collection Items
FLO-JO World Record Nails
Collection displays artwork that deconstructs traditional fixtures of beauty as an extension of female identity at the intersection of art and feminism. All of Council’s works deal with gender, from the performance of femininity, to societal…
Flo Jo World Record Nails
2000 acrylic fake fingernails, nail polish, rhinestones, metal, wood
Sculpture made from 2000 artist-made replica acrylic fingernails in the shape of an ascending 200m running course. Fingernails were individually hand painted after the manicure…
Sculpture made from 2000 artist-made replica acrylic fingernails in the shape of an ascending 200m running course. Fingernails were individually hand painted after the manicure…
Pamela Council, African American Artist
Pamela Council was born in Southampton, New York and currently resides in Bronxville, where she works to produce sculpture, textiles, print-based media and performance art.
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