Website design and development by Lilia Todorova.
TEXT CREDITS

All text written for this site is by Joanna Frueh except where otherwise specified.

Joanna’s Words of Welcome

Let us eat ambrosia.

"Ambrosia," in Clairvoyance (For Those In The Desert): Performance Pieces, 1979-2004 (Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2008), 328, 330, 333, 336.

When did I know I am Goddess of Roses?

“Goddess of Roses,” unpublished performance text.

There is a myth.
It says You are better than I am
It says I am better than you are
I say We exist in equilibrium

“There Is a Myth,” Erotic Faculties (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1996), 76.

I step into Aphrodite’s shoes.
I am building the body of love.
“Dressing Aphrodite,” Monster/Beauty: Building the Body of Love (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2001), 248.
I collaborate with bees and honey.

"Crediting the Generosity of Seers," unpublished text.

Showman
Shaman
She-Man
I go to the gardens

“Mouth Piece,” Erotic Faculties (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press), 71.

Without love, there is no revolution,
And without pleasure, there is no freedom.

“Polymorphous Perversities: Female Pleasures and the Postmenopausal Artist,” Erotic Faculties (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1996), 81.

Thinking pinking we are stinking
With substances from our pink linking
With Eros and with Aphrodite
We are rooted we are flighty
In the very best of ways
Flying happy flying gay
Flying in our pink array

"The Performance of Pink," in Clairvoyance (For Those In The Desert): Performance Pieces, 1979-2004 (Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2008), 325.

Come into my clinic and lay beside me
We will sheathe ourselves in chocolate.

“Vaginal Aesthetics,” Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy 18.4
(Fall/Winter 2003): 148.

Bring the milk chocolate truffles and the pink roses and carnations and the Merlot. Bring your action hero heart and fairy lightness, because we are creating beauty. Swooning Beauty: A Memoir of Pleasure (Reno and Las Vegas: University of Nevada Press, 2006), 282.

All Words of Welcome are written by Joanna Frueh.
The Words of Welcome can be heard on the homepage, www.joannafrueh.com, spoken by Joanna Frueh.

 

 

PHOTO CREDITS

Frances Murray in collaboration with Joanna Frueh

Swooning Beauty series, II

2004

Frances Murray in collaboration with Joanna Frueh

Swooning Beauty series, I

2004

Dean Burton

The Aesthetics of Orgasm

2002

performance documentation

Russell Dudley

The Aesthetics of Orgasm

2002

costume

Russell Dudley

Pythia

1994

costume

Russell Dudley

The Language of War and the Language of Miracles

1991

costume

Joanna Frueh and Russell Dudley

Mouth Piece

c. 1990

performance documentation

Joanna Frueh and Russell Dudley

Mouth Piece

c. 1990

performance documentation

Joanna Frueh and Russell Dudley

Mouth Piece

c. 1990

performance documentation

Joanna Frueh and Jeff Griffin

O Provocative Me

2004

still from The Performance of Pink, 28 min., video/DVD

Jill O’Bryan and Joanna Frueh

threshold, Joanna in the Desert series

2006

Edith Altman

BRUMAS

1982

performance documentation

Edith Altman

BRUMAS

1982

performance documentation

Joanna Frueh and Russell Dudley

Bejeweled Venus: An Offering

1999

Joanna Frueh and Russell Dudley

Aphrodite Salacia/Aphrodite Amazonia

1999

Joanna Frueh and Russell Dudley

Monna Pomona series, II (after a Rossetti watercolor of 1847)

1999

Joanna Frueh and Russell Dudley

Monna Pomona series, I (after a Rossetti watercolor of 1847)

1999

Joanna Frueh and Russell Dudley

Le Coeur musclé series, I

1999

Joanna Frueh and Russell Dudley

Le Coeur musclé series, II

1999

Joanna Frueh and Russell Dudley

Le Coeur musclé series, III

1999

Joanna Frueh and Russell Dudley

Seeing Clearly with the Companionship of Pink Flamingos (after Velázquez’s Venus with a Mirror [Rokeby Venus])

1999

Joanna Frueh and Russell Dudley

Heliotropic, from Girl in the Paradise of Home series

1999

Joanna Frueh and Russell Dudley

The Lush and Lovely North series, I

c. 1996

Joanna Frueh and Russell Dudley

The Lush and Lovely North series, II

c. 1996

Joanna Frueh and Russell Dudley

The Lush and Lovely North series, III

c. 1996

Joanna Frueh and Russell Dudley

The Lush and Lovely North series, IV

c. 1996

Joanna Frueh and Russell Dudley

The Lush and Lovely North series, V

c. 1996

Joanna Frueh and Russell Dudley

The Lush and Lovely North series, VI

c. 1996

Joanna Frueh and Russell Dudley

The Lush and Lovely North series, VII

c. 1996

Joanna Frueh and Russell Dudley

The Lush and Lovely North series, VIII

c. 1996

Joanna Frueh and Russell Dudley

The Lush and Lovely North series, IX

c. 1996

Joanna Frueh and Russell Dudley

The Lush and Lovely North series, X

c. 1996

Photographer unknown

rose-fresh and fairy light

c. 1949

Erne R. Frueh

family full of genius series

1954

Erne R. Frueh

family full of genius series

1954

Edith Altman

BRUMAS

1982

performance documentation

Joanna Frueh and Russell Dudley

Bowing with the Apples

1991

Joanna Frueh and Russell Dudley

Glimmering with Every Jewel, from Dressing Aphrodite series

1997

Joanna Frueh and Russell Dudley

A Grace of Observation, from Girl in the Paradise of Home series

1999

Joanna Frueh and Russell Dudley

willing like the iris

1999

Joanna Frueh and Russell Dudley

Knidian Aphrodite, Third Millennium series (after Praxiteles’s Aphrodite of Knidos)

2001

Joanna Frueh

Fortune in the Sun, from Arizona Blue Sky series

2004

Joanna Frueh

persuaded by infinity: sky over Elounda,
from The Honey of Greece series

2004

Joanna Frueh

Parnassus sequined pink: wildflowers near the Temple of Apollo at Delphi, from The Honey of Greece series

2004

Joanna Frueh and Russell Dudley

The Lush and Lovely North series, XI

c. 1996

Joanna Frueh and Russell Dudley

Venus Verticordia 2005  series, I
(based on a Rossetti oil of 1864-69)

2004

Joanna Frueh

Consensus of Love, from Arizona Blue Sky series

2004

Joanna Frueh

thick with divinity: olive grove below the ruins of Delphi,
from The Honey of Greece series

2004

Dean Burton

Joanna Frueh: A Retrospective

2005

exhibition documentation

Dean Burton

Joanna Frueh: A Retrospective

2005

exhibition documentation

Dean Burton

Joanna Frueh: A Retrospective

2005

exhibition documentation

Dean Burton

Joanna Frueh: A Retrospective

2005

exhibition documentation

Dean Burton

Joanna Frueh: A Retrospective

2005

exhibition documentation

Lilia Todorova

2005

Lilia Todorova

2005

Lilia Todorova

2005

Lilia Todorova

2005

Lilia Todorova

2005

Joanna Frueh and Russell Dudley

Mouth Piece

1995

performance documentation

cover design: Nola Burger

Joanna Frueh and Russell Dudley

The Implicit Reach of Petals, from Le Coeur musclé series

1999

cover design: Nola Burger

Joanna Frueh and Russell Dudley

Venus Verticordia 2005  series, I
(based on a Rossetti oil of 1864-68)

2004

cover design: Steven High

Joanna Frueh and Russell Dudley

2006

cover design: Carrie House

Jill O’Bryan and Joanna Frueh

prickly pear, Joanna in the Desert Series

2006

Dan Buckley

Goddess of Roses

performance documentation

2007

Jill O’Bryan and Joanna Frueh

seeing through the ground, Joanna in the Desert series

2006


cover design: Cherie Westmoreland

Jill O’Bryan and Joanna Frueh

rebirthing aphrodite, Joanna in the Desert series

2006

Jill O’Bryan and Joanna Frueh

ramada, from the series Joanna in the Desert

2006

Rebekah Bogard

Awardees, WCA Lifetime Achievement Award 2008

2008

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