Valerie Carpenter Los Angeles

The avant - garde balance of the Mid Century life re imagined. Shoes are a personal record of our lives. The desire to buy a new pair of shoes may have little to do with need but more an impulse to create a new persona for ones self. When it comes to shoes, comfort and practicality are beside the point.

Performance art is an artwork or art exhibition created through actions executed by the artist or other participants. It may be witnessed live or through documentation, spontaneously developed or written, and is traditionally presented to a public in a fine art context in an interdisciplinary mode. The women of the 1940s were the perfect blend of style and substance. #workshop #women

Project involving performance art, role play and experimental film making. Performance artist: Valerie Carpenter This body of work is inspired by age-old themes of identity juxtaposed the taboos of sexual imagery and death; "Who is Valerie Carpenter?" is an exploration into the perception of femininity and a sideways glance into the objectification of women.

The century referred to in mid-century modern is the 20th, specifically the years immediately following the Second World War, from the mid-1940s to the late 1960s. During this time, North America enjoyed a booming real estate economy and a booming population. With WWII over and so many young families buying and furnishing their first homes ...The Mid Century House Wife was fully in charge of keeping a tidy home and appearance.

While performance art is a relatively new area of art history, it has roots in experimental art of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Echoing utopian ideas of the period's avant-garde, these earliest examples found influences in theatrical and music performance, art, poetry, burlesque and other popular entertainment.

Valerie does a little gardening while she is admired by: "The Worldy Pig", or "The Dancing Pig" as it has been called in recent times, is a 1907 silent film produced by the film studio Pathe-Freres. Originally a vaudeville act, it was created in 1906 by a French stage actor nicknamed Mr. Odeo, his real identity unknown, who first performed the sketch at the Casino de Paris.