Fresh From Frieze: October 12

We arrived in London on Saturday, October 12th and went to our fabulous hotel, the St. Pancras, which is the official Frieze hotel. While we were waiting for our room (which was not ready), we checked out my interview in the Financial Times, which featured the heading “Woman Hood”, a reference to both my gender and the fact that my Frieze Masters solo show will feature three sprayed Car Hoods (“Flight Hood”, “Bigamy Hood” and “Birth Hood”). Quite by chance, the hood (or bonnet as they call them here) that is owned by the Musee d’art in Stockholm is in a show at the Barbican that examines the commonalities in visual language used by artists and designers during the 1960's. In terms of my car hoods, the intrinsically female images are impaled on the most masculine of shapes, a perfect metaphor for my dilemma then which involved trying to make a place for myself as a woman artist in the macho L.A. art scene.

[Top two photographs by Donald Woodman.]