Wangechi Mutu Quotes
While I was a student at The Cooper Union, they discouraged too much of a focus on any one medium, and it helped me try new and different things.
Topics
Academic Freedom
Diversity
Exploration
Inspiration
Innovation, Innovations
Creativity, Creators
Experimentation
Open-mindedness
Risk Taking
Different Things
Art School
Education, Knowledge & Training
Artistic Diversity
Artistic Freedom
Broadening Horizons
Creative Exploration
Cross-Pollination
Innovative Thinking
Multidisciplinary Approach
Citations
Mutu, Wangechi. Interview. Cooper Union Alumni Magazine, The Cooper Union, 2014.
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Wangechi Mutu (born 1972) is a Kenyan-American visual artist known primarily for her painting, sculpture, film, and performance work. Born in Kenya, she has lived and established her career in New York for more than twenty years. Mutu's work has directed the female body as subject through collage painting, immersive installation, and live and video performance all the while exploring questions of self-image, gender constructs, cultural trauma, and environmental destruction as well as notions of beauty and power.