Vanalyne Green

Vanalyne Green (born 1948) is an artist who also writes about culture and who also teaches. She has screened her video work extensively in the United States and abroad, including The Whitney Biennial, American Film Institute, Rotterdam International Film Festival, the Videotheque de Paris, The Robert Flaherty Film Seminar, The Guggenheim Museum and many other museums, universities and film festivals. She has received a Guggenheim Foundation fellowship, as well as grants from Creative Capital, the Jerome Foundation, the Richard H. Driehaus Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council of the Arts, and a Rome Prize at the American Academy in Rome. Her work has been covered in the Village Voice, the Los Angeles Weekly, The Chicago Reader, and Artforum. Publications by and about, and interviews with, Green also can be found in Performance Artists Talking in the Eighties and Women of Vision, in addition to M/E/A/N/I/N/G: An Anthology of Artists' Writings, Theory, and Criticism. Green's videotape "A Spy in the House that Ruth Built" was listed as one of the 1,000 best films ever made by film critic and author Jonathan Rosenbaum.

Vanalyne Green studied art at Fresno State University in the first feminist art program started by Judy Chicago and then at California Institute of the Arts with Sheila Levrant de Bretteville, where she earned a BFA degree in 1974. Green was a member of the [http://www.communityarts.net/readingroom/archivefiles/2002/09/acting_like_wom.php Feminist Art Workers] , a performance art group based in Los Angeles, often associated with the Woman's Building (along with Cheri Gaulke, Nancy Angelo, and Laurel Klick). In New York, she was a founding member of the pro-abortion, pro-sex agit-prop group [http://rwor.org/photos/25years/25years-pages/Image9.html No More Nice Girls] . And later in Chicago, Green was a founding member of the collaborative group Feel Tank Chicago.

External links

* [http://www.vdb.org/smackn.acgi$artistdetail?GREENV Vanalyne Green] in the [http://www.vdb.org/ Video Data Bank]
* [http://www.leeds.ac.uk/fine_art/people/staff/vg.html University of Leeds Profile]
* [http://www.vdb.org/smackn.acgi$artistdetail?GREENV Video Clip Samples]
* [http://channel.creative-capital.org/webcast_detail_53.html Video "Saddle Sores"]
* [http://gravymagazine.com/gravy3.htm Review "Saddle Sores"]
* [http://www.judithlevine.com/blog/ Judith Levine blog]
* [http://www.feeltankchicago.net Feel Tank Chicago]