Joan Jonas
American, 1936-
Zena as Fossil Mask 12
Oil stick and charcoal on paper
19 3/8 x 14 ⅛
DWR.42
Anonymous Gift
Joan Jonas is a visual artist and a pioneer of video and performance art. She works in video, installation, sculpture, and drawing, often collaborating with musicians and dancers to realize improvisational works that are equally at home in the museum gallery and on the theatrical stage. Drawing on mythic stories from various cultures, Jonas invests texts from the past with the politics of the present.
Performance: Live Art Since the 60s by 