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Highlights from Michelle Grabner's crowd - pleasing selection include Dawoud Bey's presidential portrait photography (Barack Obama, 2008), Karl Haendel's Theme Time Drawings, pencil drawings of various subjects arranged in shaped frames across a massive section of wall, and works by Donelle Woolford, the fictional young black female artist «created» by Joe Scanlan and played by various actors whose Joke Painting (detumescence)(2013) investigates the notion of authenticity.

The self - portrait has long been a powerful tool used creatively by female artists, including Claude Cahun, Frida Khalo and Cindy Sherman.

Today, the self - portraits of 21 female artists, whose talents span from painting to mixed media to video, have been curated by Indira Cesarine and Coco Dolle of The Untitled Space Gallery in an exhibit entitled SELF REFLECTION.

Among many, some works of note include textile portraits of Frida Kahlo and Angela Davis by Jess De Wahls, a painting by Tara Lewis entitled, High School, that acts as an ode to millennial feminists, and multimedia paintings by Nichole Washington, inspired by 90s female hip hop artists, such as Queen Latifah and Missy Elliot.

Tate acquires Joan Carlile portrait The Tate gallery has announced a round of new acquisitions in its annual report, including a landmark portrait by 17th - century British painter Joan Carlile that now represents the oldest work by a female artist in the museum's collection — one which was long assumed to be the work of a man.

By calling on female pop artists to provide the soundtrack to her life, Georgiou's self - portraits are a direct response to her desire to be «perfect.

In a guide to intriguing art exhibitions nationwide, Judith Dobrzynski features the High Museum of Art's «Walker Evans: Depth of Field», a major international retrospective of Evans» work, including images taken of the American South during the Great Depression; the Denver Art Museum's «Women of Abstract Expression», celebrating the contributions of female artists who helped shape the movement in the 1940s and 1950s; the Met Breuer's «Unfinished: Thoughts Left Visible», the Museum's inaugural exhibition examining works that were never finished by the artists from the 15th century to today; the Asian Art Museum's «Emperors» Treasures: Chinese Art From the National Palace Museum, Taipei», and the Bowdoin College Museum of Art's «This Is a Portrait if I Say So: Identity in American Art, 1912 to Today.»

There will be hyperpigmented canvases by British - Nigerian Yinka Shonibare MBE, of the Young British Artists generation; animal - skin sculptures of the female form by the Swazi artist Nandipha Mntambo; portraits by the queer South African photographer Zanele Muholi; the 2013 Venice Biennale's Angola Pavilion installation by photographer Edson Chagas (winner of that year's Golden Lion award); an ebony bust by Soweto - born Mohau Modisakeng; a huge dragon sculpture in rubber and ribbon by the Cape Town — born Nicholas Hlobo; and sheets made of 1,150 tiny glass beads by American artist Liza Lou, who has a studio in Durban, a South African city around 800 miles from Cape Town.

In the running for first prize are Miriam Escofet's portrait of her mother, An Angel At My Table; Time Traveller, Matthew Napping by Felicia Forte which shows her partner Matthew DeJong asleep in bed; Ania Hobson's A Portrait of Two Female Painters, depicting the artist and her sister - in - law, Stevie Dix, and Zhu Tongyao's portrait of his Italian neighbour,portrait of her mother, An Angel At My Table; Time Traveller, Matthew Napping by Felicia Forte which shows her partner Matthew DeJong asleep in bed; Ania Hobson's A Portrait of Two Female Painters, depicting the artist and her sister - in - law, Stevie Dix, and Zhu Tongyao's portrait of his Italian neighbour,Portrait of Two Female Painters, depicting the artist and her sister - in - law, Stevie Dix, and Zhu Tongyao's portrait of his Italian neighbour,portrait of his Italian neighbour, Simone.

Gechtoff's painting Angel (1960), a vaguely female form (the artist says it's a self - portrait) in a crucifixionlike pose, energetically composed of shards of bright hues, dominantly pink and sky blue, lit the front room at Nolan; in the back was a large (61 - by -40-inch), radically abstract Gechtoff drawing from 1956 — 57 in which an entity made of long graphite strokes appears to traverse the otherwise empty page.

The work on display by female artists indicates the extensive range of the exhibition: Hannah Wilke (who died that year), whose autobiographical works dealt directly with female iconography as well as the effect of cancer on her own body; the performative, body - based work of Cheryl Donegan, referencing both video and gestural painting; the more traditional yet highly stylised and idealised portraits of Elizabeth Peyton, and the critical performance and media work of Coco Fusco.

2011 Becoming, Artsdepot, London Family Matters: The Family in British Art, Norwich Castle Summer Exhibition 2011, Royal Academy of Arts, London Why I Never Became a Dancer, Sammlung Goetz Collection, Haus der Kunst, Munich True Stories, Locks Gallery, Philadelphia Light Fantastic, Broadfield House Glass Museum, Dudley Dance / Draw, ICA, Boston Family Matter, Norwich Castle Museum and Art Gallery, (touring), Norwich The Art of Chess, University of the Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane Crossing Centuries: Works by Women Artists 1830 to 2000, ASC Gallery, London Naked, Jensen Gallery, Sydney Donne, Donne, Donne, Fondazione Pier Luigie Natalina Remotti, Camogli, Move: Choreographing You, K20, Dusseldorf Images From a Floating World, Fredericks & Freiser Gallery, New York Readykeulous, Invisible Exports Gallery, New York Newspeak, The Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide Royal Academicians, I - MYU Projects, Sungnam Art Centre, Seoul Text / Video / Female: Art after 60's, PKM Trinity Gallery, Seoul Watercolour, Tate Britain, London The Shape We're In (Camden), 176 Zabludowicz, London Moving Portraits, De La Warr Pavillon, Bexhill - on - Sea LUMIERE, Durham Sex Drive, Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Pennsylvania House of the Nobleman, Zabludowicz Collection, London He disappeared into complete silence: re-reading a single artwork by Louise Bourgeois, Frans Hals Museum │ De Hallen Haarlem Sometimes, Ciragan Palace Kempinsky Gallery, Istanbul Fertility, Akim Monet, Berlin At Work, The Government Art Collection, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London Peeping Tom, Kunsthal in Amersfort, Netherlands Paint Me A Drink, 20 Hoxton Square Projects, London Contemporary Art, Fredericks & Freiser, New York

Little did she know that hundreds of female artists from around the city — including photographer Catherine Opie, light and space artist Helen Pashgian and assemblagist Betye Saar, who showed up accompanied by her daughters, artists Alison and Lezley Saar — would all pile into the courtyard at Hauser Wirth & Schimmel on Sunday at midday for an epic group portrait.

Collaborating with the artist J. Morgan Puett, Dion reimagines the tradition of largely male - dominated field of natural history by creating portraits of female scientists.

Other top prices included $ 11,284,628 ($ 8.8 m to $ 12.1 m) for Gitane by the Dutch Fauvist portrait painter Kees van Dongen (1877 - 1968); and $ 10,216,148 (estimate: $ 6.4 m — $ 9.6 m) for Espagnole by the Russian modernist Natalia Goncharova (1881 - 1962)- a record auction price for a painting by a female artist.

Two Roman marble sculptures by unidentified authors of unknown sitters - a male pair of legs and a female portrait bust from The British Museum are housed within a commissioned display structure by British artist Steven Claydon (b. 1969) and surrounded by Andy Warhol's «Silver Clouds» (1966).

The second chamber, «Life Struggle: An Affirmation», displayed Robert Gober's Untitled (1992 — 96): a self - portrait by way of an altered New York Times advertisement, in which an image of the artist dressed as a beautiful bride takes the place of the female model.

Five artist records were set in these sales led by the sale of Berthe Morisot's portrait, which was very significant as it set a new record price for a female artist at auction and sold for almost three times its high estimate for $ 10.9 million.

Portrait of an Artist is a project inspired by seven remarkable female artists that drive culture by shaking the structures of established belief systems.

Richard Prince has again been raiding the Instagram accounts of the largely female rich and famous with a series of «New Portraits,» from celebrities, models, and other individuals of visual note with a current show of works by the artist at one of Gagosian Gallery's Madison Avenue spaces — and Prince's presence in the gallery's -LSB-...]

A suite of wonderful self - portraits by the young Kia Labeija, the only female HIV - positive artist of color featured in the show, brings us into the present moment.

A specialist in representational art - including male as well as female nudes along with various types of portrait art - he is regarded by most critics as being among the best English painters of the 20th century, and one of the best portrait artists of his generation.

Exhibitions from the past 12 months include her solo exhibition Phantasmagorical: Self Portraits, at Alexandre Gallery, the OBPC exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, The Female Gaze: Women Artists Making Their World, at the PAFA Museum, Sic Transit Mundi: Industry of the Ordinary, at the Chicago Cultural Center and The Mind's I, a collaborative drawing project organized by Harris at Julius Caesar Gallery, Chicago.