Flo-Jo World Record Nails

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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

Format

Sculpture : Images

Language

English

Type

African American
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…

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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