Mail Order Brides/M.O.B.
The Brides:
Eliza “Neneng” Barrios
BA, 1992, SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY, San Francisco, CA
MFA, 1995, MILLS COLLEGE, Oakland, CA
Certified Domesticienne/Artiste (CDA), 1996, Museum Decorating Institute of America (MDIA)
shoe: 7 1/2 measurements: 38C-22-30
Reanne “Immaculata” Estrada
BA, Magna Cum Laude in Visual and Environmental Studies, 1992 HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Cambridge, MA
Certified Domesticienne/Artiste (CDA), 1996, Museum Decorating Institute of America (MDIA)
shoe: 9 measurements: 30AA-40-33
Jenifer “Baby” Wofford
BFA, 1995, SAN FRANCISCO ART INSTITUTE, San Francisco, CA
MFA candidate Spring 2007, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT BERKELEY, Berkeley, CA
Certified Domesticienne/Artiste (CDA), 1996, Museum Decorating Institute of America (MDIA)
shoe: 10 measurements: 36D-27-47
Their Exhibitions With Themselves:
2003 Honeymoon Suite Nothings, Lizabeth Oliveria Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2001 Divorced from Reality, Lizabeth Oliveria Gallery, Oakland, CA
2000 Mail Order Brides: The Untold Story, SF Arts Commission Chinatown Community Arts Program Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1998 A Public Service Message About Your Private Life, Market Street Art in Transit Program, San Francisco Art Commission, San Francisco, CA
1995 Mail Order Brides: Five Filipina American Artists, Los Medanos College, Martinez, CA
Their Exhibitions With Others:
2007 Dirty Work: Artists Eye Domestic Labor, Kearny Street Workshop Space180, San Francisco, CA
2005 Bay Area Now 4, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
2004 The Bay Area Show, The Tangent Gallery, Detroit, MI
The Bay Area Show, New Image Art, Los Angeles, CA
2002 Eight Artists at the Creative Crucible, McColl Center for Visual Art, Charlotte, NC
2001 Synesthesia, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA
Bae, Luggage Store Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1999 “Home is Where the **art Is,”, Museum Pieces: Bay Area Artists Consider the De Young, M.H. DeYoung Memorial Art Museum,
San Francisco, CA
1999 Mabuhay-Our Stories Old and New: Bay Area Pilipino Amerikan Artists, Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA
1998 25/25, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA
Destiny Manifesting, Galeria de la Raza, San Francisco, CA
MUNI Bus Shelter posters & Video Screening, (in conjunction with the Sino Ka, Ano Ka? Exhibition),
San Francisco State University Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1997 Art Traffic, Puro Arte Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Their Performances:
2005 Always A Bridesmaid, Never A Bride, paper project LA, Los Angeles, CA
A Business Proposal, Barbershop Chinatown, Los Angeles, California
Always A Bridesmaid, Never A Bride, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
2002 Danger Triplets, 498 JEAN, Oakland CA
Open House Karaoke Lounge, McColl Center for Visual Art, Charlotte, NC
2000 Circus SoEx, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA
1999 Please Sing Along with a Feeling!, Artists’ Television Access, San Francisco, CA
1997 Pinays on Wheels, motorcycles & beauty queens parade float, Lunar New Year Parade, Oakland, CA
Their Film/Video Festivals & Other Screenings:
2007 Humor Us, LA Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2006 Film Friday, Filipino American National Historical Society Conference, Honolulu, HI
Intro to Visual Thinking class, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
2005 Asian American Performance Art class, University of California at Davis, Davis, CA
2003 Detroit Film Festival, Detroit Museum of New Art, Detroit, MI
19th Annual Visual Communications: Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film and Video Festival, LA, CA
Cinema Brut, Track 16 gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Chicks with Flicks, New York, NY
Gay AF ISO Same, San Francisco Asian American Film Festival, San Francisco, CA
2002 World Premiere: Mail Order Bride of Frankenstein, McColl Center for Visual Art, Charlotte, NC
1999 Apature: APA at ATA, Artists’ Television Access (ATA), San Francisco, CA
Meow Mix, San Francisco Asian American Film Festival, San Francisco, CA
1998 Gone Awry, The Mix Festival, New York, NY
Sapinilakang pa Tabing, Arkipelago Film & Video Festival, New York, NY
Video Screening (in conjunction with the Sino Ka, Ano Ka? Exhibition), San Francisco State University Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Loony Lezzies, SF International Lesbian and Gay Film Festival,San Francisco, CA
Their Honors and Lectures:
2006 Artist Lecture/Motivational Seminar: “Mail Order Brides/M.O.B.: Commitment Issues and Other Cultural Baggage”,Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA
2005 Artist Lecture, Asian American Modern Art History, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
2004 Artist Lecture, Filipino American Art History Class, , University of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
Stretcher: Green Room Interview, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA
2003 Artist Lecture, Filipino American Art History Class, University of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
2002 Fall Artists-in-Residence, McColl Center for Visual Art, Charlotte, NC
Artist Lecture, Winthrop University, Rock Hill, SC
“Mail Order Brides”, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, NC
2001 Panelists, “Worlds in Collision II Conference,” San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
2000 “Ethnic Dishy-ness: M.O.B. Recipes for a Better Visual Culture,” Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA
Presenters, The Artists’ Studio, M. H. De Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, CA
1998 Panelists, Destiny Manifesting, Galeria de la Raza, San Francisco, CA
Family Day, SAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, San Francisco, CA
1997 Meet the Mail Order Brides, Mills College, Oakland, CA
1996 Panelists, Asia/America, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
Their Selected Bibliography:
“Having Your Art and Eating It Too,” Renee Macalino Rutledge, Filipinas Magazine, November 2005, p 64-66
“A Curious Betrothal,” Joyce Slaton, SF Weekly, November 26, 2003, p28
“Critic’s Pick: Mail Order Brides: The Untold Story,” Megan Wilson, San Francisco Bay Guardian, Sept.13, 2000, p108
“Forever on the Move,” Amy Berk, World Sculpture News, Winter 2000, vol. 6, no. 1, p 30-35
“Genial Deconstruction of the De Young Museum,” David Bonetti, S.F. Examiner, Nov. 26, 1999
“Local Heroes,” Kenneth Baker, San Francisco Chronicle, Nov. 20, 1999
“Museum Pieces: Bay Area Artists Consider the De Young (catalog essay by curator Glen Helfand),” M. H. de Young Memorial Museum, 1999
“Editorial Profile: Museum Pieces: Bay Area Artists Consider the De Young,” Colin Berry, www.citysearch.com, 1999
Mabuhay-Our Stories Old and New: Bay Area Pilipino Amerikan Artists (exhibition brochure), Triton Museum of Art, 1999
“Identities in Art; The Filipino Identity Interpreted Through Art”, Catherine Maclay, San Jose Mercury News, June 6, 1999
“Unfolding Identities,” Reena Jana, Asian ArtNews, March/April 1999, vol. 9, no. 2, p 42-45
“Eight Days a Week,” San Francisco Bay Guardian, February 11-18, 1999
25/25 (catalog), with essay by Constance Lewallen, Senior Curator, Southern Exposure, 1999
“Mail Order Brides,” Leora Harling, Moxie, Spring 1999, vol. 2, no. 1, p 27-30
“Filipino Fetish,” Christine Brenneman, S.F. Metropolitan, October 19, 1998, vol. 2, no. 18, p 30
“Filipino Artists in a Fierce Mood,” John Krich, San Francisco Examiner, August 4 1998, Style,p B1 www.fohl.com/babaylan
Got the Message! A 60th Birthday Book for Lucy R. Lippard, edited by Moira Roth, Mills College,1997