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Crying in Public

Claudette Schreuders. Show and Tell and The Couple from Crying in Public. 2003

Claudette Schreuders (South African, born 1973; lives Cape Town). Show and Tell and The Couple from Crying in Public. 2003. Two from a series of nine lithographs with chine-collé. Composition (each): 13 x 9 1/4" (33 x 23.5 cm) and 12 15/16 x 9 1/4" (32.8 x 23.5 cm); sheet (each): 14 15/16 x 11 1/4" (38 x 28.6 cm). Publisher and printer: The Artists' Press, White River, Mpumalanga. Edition: 30. Fund for the Twenty-First Century, 2005. © 2011 Claudette Schreuders

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Schreuders’s work mingles biography with evocations of traditional art-historical forms such as the Madonna and Child, the colon (a West African sculptural genre co-opted by the European tourist trade in Africa), and other symbols of African art, including the water spirit Mami Wata and pairs of twins. She regularly creates a series of lithographs following the completion of a body of sculptural work, a practice she formally began with this series, Crying in Public, prepared for her second solo gallery exhibition in New York and revealing the theme of an artist coming to terms with her public persona.