Joan Jonas was born in 1936, in New York and went to Mount Holyoke College in 1958. She attended Columbia University in 1965 and received her MFA. She is currently a professor at MIT. Her work is video, installation, sculpture, drawing and is collaborative with musicians and dancers. She draws on mythic stories from cultures and texts with the politics. In some of the works, there are masks to emphasize symbols and self-awareness. The artists reflects into metaphors for the divide between the subjective and the objective vision and the loss of fixed identities. She has received various awards such as the Rockefeller Foundation in 1990, the American Film Institute's Maya Deren Award for Video in 1989, the Guggenheim Foundation in 1976 and the National Endowment for the Arts in 1974.
My favorite piece of work is the "Organic Honey's Vertical Roll" because I feel in the image like I'm an observer in the scene. The picture is taken from the back corner so it feels like I'm behind the scenes. The man is recording a woman so it shows that there is motion in the photograph. The woman's costume really caught my eye in this picture because of the tall hat. I also liked the images at the beach in the "Nova Scotia Beach Dance" because it shows motion and different actions.
http://www.art21.org/artists/joan-jonas
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