Carey Lovelace

  • Arlene Raven

    ARLENE RAVEN cut a complex swath through the world before she died this past summer on August 1. Indeed, she was an activist as “pluralistic” as the 1970s feminist art community from which she emerged—a quality perhaps most clearly recalled when one considers a 1983 landmark exhibition she curated at the Long Beach Museum of Art in California, titled “At Home,” which brought together many of the artists and ideas she had championed for the previous decade. The show included Suzanne Lacy, who pioneered massive group performances on social themes; West Coast–based performance artists Rachel