Janine Antoni emphasizes the human body in her pieces, such as her mouth, hair, eyelashes, and, through technological scanning, brain, using it as a tool of creation or as the subject of her pieces, exploring intimacy between the spectator and the artist.
16 Facts About Janine Antoni
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Janine Antoni's difficulty acclimating to American society is what drove her to use her body as a tool, as she felt her body language made her stand out.
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Tableau vivants, a static scene containing one or more actors or models, are an art form that Janine Antoni has used in her work.
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Janine Antoni explains this desire to be involved in the viewer's experience when she writes:.
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Janine Antoni has cited Louise Bourgeois as a strong artistic influence, referring to Bourgeois as her 'art mother.
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Janine Antoni made a statement about her work saying "Lard is a stand-in for the female body, a feminine material, since females typically have a higher fat content than males, making the work somewhat cannibalistic".
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In Loving Care, Janine Antoni used her hair as a paintbrush and Loving Care hair dye as her paint.
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Dipping her hair in a bucket of dye, Janine Antoni mopped the gallery floor on her hands and knees, pushing viewers out of the space as she coated the floor in color.
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Janine Antoni's performance was at the Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London, in 1993.
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In Lick and Lather, Janine Antoni produced fourteen busts of herself, seven cast from chocolate and the other seven from soap.
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Janine Antoni states, "I didn't want to leave it as part of the piece because, for me, the licking was very important, in the sense that it was a very loving act, very different than Gnaw".
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Janine Antoni spent the first weeks sleeping in the gallery space, a room with no decor, filled only by a wire-frame bed and a desk with a computer and wires.
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Janine Antoni slept with a blanket which she continued to weave during the day, creating an infinite blanket connected to a loom that she slept with at night.
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In Tear, Janine Antoni created a wrecking ball in lead and then used it to demolish a building synchronized with the blinking of her eyelid.
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Janine Antoni's work Crowned was inspired after her giving birth in 2004 to her daughter.
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Janine Antoni was married to artist, Paul Ramirez Jonas and together they have a daughter.