Patricia Cronin: 24 interesting facts

Patricia Cronin (born in 1963 in Beverly, Massachusetts) is a New York-based feminist cross-disciplinary artist. Since the early-1990s, Cronin has garnered international attention for her photographs, paintings and sculptures that residence contemporary human rights issues. Cronin’s conceptual artistic practice transits across many aesthetic platforms addressing social justice issues of gender, sexuality and class, including: lesbian visibility, feminist art history, marriage equality and international rights of women. She subverts usual art images and forms in a broad range of two and three-dimensional usual artists’ materials and breathes other life into these images and forms by injecting her specific diplomatic content. Her critically recognized statue, “Memorial To A Marriage”, is the first and forlorn Marriage Equality monument in the world. A 3-ton Carrara marble mortuary sculpture of her life partner in crime and herself was made before cheerful marriage was legitimate in the U.S., and has been exhibited widely across the country and abroad. Cronin began her career operational for the Anne Frank Stichting (Foundation) in Amsterdam installing the traveling exhibition “Anne Frank in the World” in Europe and the U.S. Giving presence to female absence is a consistent thread that runs through and connects each body of work.

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