Artist Information
Artist: Micol Hebron
Website: http://micolhebron.com
Gallery: The Situation Room
About the Artist
Micol Hebron is an art professor at Chapman University. She is deeply involved in creating and supporting art, especially around the focus of feminism and counteracting the inherent sexism in both art and the world as a whole. She made the Gallery Tally, and The Situation Room, and has had her art displayed in many exhibitions.
Formal Analysis
Much of Hebron’s work focused on gender inequality issues, and so a main piece she often incorporates or uses is a male nipple pasty. Many social media sites and public sites may censor female nipples, yet the male nipple is uncensored. Hebron used the idea of pasting a male nipple over the female nipple to make it “acceptable as a way of bypassing the unequal censorship. Many more have taken up this idea and it can be seen many places online, where it has been updated and a format, like the one shown above was created.
Content Analysis The main purpose of this paste is not just to bypass the censorship, but to make a statement. It speaks about how with no visual difference, a male nipple is socially acceptable but a female one isn’t. Hebron uses this idea to highlight the inequality that is rampant in art and
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