Woman of the Day:
Jacqueline Bishop
For
the last twenty years Jacqueline Bishop has used metaphor in paintings
and installations to communicate and symbolize the politicizing of nature,
species extinction, beauty, decay, life and death. She describes this
as "terrible beauty".She has traveled with scientists and alone
through the disappearing forests of the Americas in Peru, Bolivia, Venezuela,
the Brazilian Amazon, Costa Rica, Guatemala, and Belize as well as her
own Louisiana swamps. Recently she journeyed twice to Calcutta, India
and Bangladesh to lecture and view the forests. Jacqueline Bishop is concerned
with the lost intimacy with nature, the connection between the feminine
and the natural world, and extinction. Ms. Bishop is a native of Southern
California, grew up in Missouri and studied art and philosophy at the
University of Kansas in Lawrence, Kansas. She completed a BA in Art at
the University of New Orleans and an MFA at Tulane University where she
occasionally teaches. She has lectured and exhibited in Brazil, Bolivia,
France, India, Bangladesh and the United States. Her interest in the Third
World began when she lived in the Dominican Republic in 1975 across the
road from a destroyed primary forest. Ms. Bishop is the author of "Em
Memoria Chico Mendes: A Tribute on the 10- Year Anniversary of His Death".
She teaches a course titled "Art and Environment" focusing on
the Art World, the Natural World and the Third World at Loyola University
in New Orleans and currently has an exhibition in Toronto titled "Natural
Order". Jacqueline Bishop is represented by the Arthur Roger Gallery
in New Orleans.