Adrian Piper focuses on raising consciousness about subjects like race, racism, class and gender. She uses questions to entice uneasiness and evoke responses that reveal a deeper perspective. She is classified as an interrogator. She has a bold method to tell it or ask it how it is without adding fluff to soften the main issue. She began painting in 1966 with "LSD Self-Portrait From the Inside Out" and then "Multichrome Mom and Dad." Although she was young to start, her paintings revealed deeper and interactive meanings. Some of her work depicts personal issues such as race with her mixed parents. She then went on to a solo piece "Food for the Spirit" in 1970 while she was completing her philosophy degree at City College in New York. In this performance, she fasted while she worked and recorded her appearance throughout with photographs of her body dematerializing.
Piper also did public performances which are described as assertive and disruptive. In such pieces she becomes a character and persona as a malleable medium. I appreciate her artwork because it targets issues that need to be addressed. They are difficult subjects to face but are essential to be faced with and understood. She allows her audience to really consider something new or just uncomfortable. I like how she enticed deeper thinking and a broader point of view.
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