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Adrian Margaret Smith Piper[1] (born September 20, 1948) is an American conceptual artist and Kantian philosopher. Her work addresses how and why those involved in more than one discipline may experience professional ostracism, otherness, racial passing, and racism by using various traditional and non-traditional media to provoke self-analysis.
Adrian Piper: A Synthesis of Intuition, 1965–2016, the piece, Ashes to Ashes (1995), had a fascinating and controversial history. A year after her mother’s death in
18 kwi 2018 · The “Tale of Avarice and Poverty” (1985) features a single, large photo of Piper’s paternal grandmother, surrounded by a not-very-fictionalised family saga.
15 lip 2024 · As a replacement, the artist created Ashes to Ashes (1995), a photo-text work that is one of Piper’s most personal works. Ashes to Ashes tells the story of the death of both of the artist’s parents from smoking-related illnesses.
25 maj 2018 · In 1985, Adrian Piper started creating her ongoing work, “What Will Become of Me”, that is set to be the last artwork she contributes when she dies. It’s made up of a collection of honey jars filled with the artist’s hair and nails that she has been contributing since the work’s conception.
20 gru 2011 · Since the late 1960s Adrian Piper has worked across a range of mediums, including photography, performance, video installation, and text-based projects, to confront thorny social and political issues in American culture such as race and gender.
Performance, documentations of performance, cartoons published in the Village Voice and drawings on black and white photographs document the evolution of the creature she refers to as The Mythic Being.
