“Tina Girouard: SIGN-IN” is the primary complete retrospective dedicated to the Louisiana-born artist Tina Girouard (1946–2020) in New York Metropolis, offered at CARA in partnership with Rivers Institute for Modern Artwork & Thought.

From the Nineteen Seventies till her demise, Girouard was a devoted experimental artist, collaborator, and artwork employee, whose follow throughout mediums deeply knowledgeable feminist artwork, craft, efficiency, and video of the final century. Alongside her particular person inventive work, she nurtured and was part of artist communities and organizations in Louisiana, New York, and Haiti, together with the Anarchitecture Group, the interdisciplinary cohort of 112 Greene Road, FOOD restaurant, The Kitchen, P.S. 1, and the Competition Worldwide de la Louisiane.

“I like artwork to perform as a protect, as a refuge,” wrote Girouard. Girouard’s artwork honored the spirituality of on a regular basis objects and interactions. Her acts of maintenance, together with home labor historically related to “girls’s work,” blurred the boundaries between what she referred to as “lifemaking” and art-making.

“SIGN-IN” gathers movie, efficiency, drawing, sequin, textile, and set up, all of which hint Girouard’s follow and legacy throughout genres and geographies. Along with archival images, scores, and preparatory notes, the works assembled in “SIGN-IN” articulate each Girouard’s profound contributions to the sphere and her perception in collaboration. Touring as Girouard did between Lousiana and New York, “SIGN-IN” holds house for an artist’s legacy too lengthy ignored.

at Center for Art, Research and Alliances (CARA), New York
till January 12, 2024