Vajazzle in the Kitchen | Brenda Oelbaum

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Written By Elsewhere Living Museum & Artist Residency
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Over the course of her residency, Brenda Oelbaum investigated Elsewhere’s collection of costume jewelry and loose beads, carefully sorting, untangling and artfully recombining it, as a meditation on the feminine allure of bodily ornament. One of the pieces she created as part of this speculative engagement was a bejeweled vulva that now lives in Elsewhere’s kitchen, which takes feminist artist Judy Chicago’s famous 1970’s Dinner Party as it’s point of inspiration.

Read “My First Full Day at Elsewhere” on Brenda’s blog.

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Brenda Oelbaum
Brenda Oelbaum

Brenda Oelbaum is the current President of the Women's Caucus for Art, a national organization that supports women in the arts by creating community through art, education and social activism. As a multidisciplinary conceptual artist, Oelbaum works in whatever medium best suits her mission. For the past 10 years she has been focusing on taking down the 66 billion diet industry, turning diet books into art that will educate viewers about disordered eating, and an industry that thrives on personal failure, promoting low self-image and body loathing. She feels strongly that it is the Diet Industry that has created the so called "Obesity Epidemic," and believes in the principles of Health at Every Size (HAES)

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