Through an interdisciplinary practice spanning performance, video, collaborative actions, and installation, Angela Washko investigates how attitudes and stereotypes regarding the representation of women manifest in narratives within media, advertising, video games, and the foundation of American lifestyle. Her works look at what we passively consume in our environment and how everything from women to summer sunshine can be (and has been) commodified. In response she creates playfully critical videos which highlight the absurdity of accepting a feminine identity built on purchases and the representation of women in the media. Frequently deconstructing objects that have already been introduced into culture, her works are a call-to-action, bringing light to patterns and habits we have implicitly disregarded and demanding a drastic attitude change in our collective consciousness.
Washko has recently completed artist residencies at Flux Factory in NYC, Gullkistan in Iceland, Contemporary Artists Center at Woodside in Troy, and The Fabric Workshop and Museum in Philadelphia. Her work has been exhibited both nationally and internationally including most recently at The Rotterdam International Film Festival, Grace Exhibition Space in NYC, Spattered Columns in NYC, Garage Gallery in San Diego, Carnival of e-Creativity in New Dehli, Videopolis in Barcelona, and The Budapest Short Film Festival. Her practice has earned her Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts’ Welcome to New York Award and articles in Rhizome at the New Museum, the New York Times, Time Out NY, the Huffington Post, All That We’ve Met, and Staten Island Arts.
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