Coss_M 2014 Public Debt to the Suffragette

Art

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Name/Title

Coss_M 2014 Public Debt to the Suffragette

Artwork Details

Medium

Hardware Screen and Umbrellas with Projection and sound

Made/Created

Artist

Mary Coss

Date made

2014

Dimensions

Height

9 ft

Width

12 ft

Depth

15 ft

Provenance

Provenance Detail

Collection of the Artist

General Notes

Note Type

Exhibited

Note

ARTPrize; Special Recognition Award “Art to Change the World: Inspiring Social Justice” from the ACLU; Fountain Street Church; Grand Rapids, MI 2016; Consume her Demand; Agent C Gallery; Vancouver, BC 2015; Public Debt to the Suffragette; METHOD Gallery; Seattle, WA 2014

Note

The installation includes 5 unique dress forms with corset tops made from hardware screen and built on wooden umbrellas. The sound of water dripping is a testament to time. Images projected onto the forms are of 7 generations of women in my family, alongside news clippings of the Suffragettes, all heroines who persisted.