Uploaded January 2025 | Updated September 2026, 12 hours ago
Paula Modersohn-Becker captured the lived bodily experiences of women through her frank portrayals of motherhood, pregnancy, and old age, including the first nude self-portraits known to have been made by a woman. A century later, acclaimed artist Renee Cox’s powerful photographs critique and reframe stereotypical images of the Black female body. Her series "Yo Mama" features photographs of her own pregnant and nursing body, adopting and subverting biblical and art historical imagery to celebrate motherhood.
Hear from Cox and curator Jay A. Clarke for a conversation considering motherhood, self-portraiture, and both artists’ place in feminist art history.
Paula Modersohn-Becker captured the lived bodily experiences of women through her frank portrayals of motherhood, pregnancy, and old age, including the first nude self-portraits known to have been made by a woman. A century later, acclaimed artist Renee Cox’s powerful photographs critique and reframe stereotypical images of the Black female body. Her series "Yo Mama" features photographs of her own pregnant and nursing body, adopting and subverting biblical and art historical imagery to celebrate motherhood.
Hear from Cox and curator Jay A. Clarke for a conversation considering motherhood, self-portraiture, and both artists’ place in feminist art history.
