Drawing from the National Museum of
Women in the Arts collection, this show features photography and video works by 17 artists focusing their camera on the female body as a vital medium for storytelling, expressing identity and reflecting individual and collective experience.
This display highlights works in The National Museum of
Women in the Arts collection — the only international museum dedicated to the exhibition, preservation, and acquisition of works by women artists of all nationalities and periods - as part of the Whitechapel Gallery's programme of opening up rarely seen collections from around the world.
Not exact matches
The Brooklyn Museum has sparked outrage
in the black community after tapping a white
woman to curate its vast African
art collection.
This 50s and 60s - inspired
collection brings this iconic artist's whimsical Mid-century modern
art to life
in beautiful and timeless style for the modern
woman.
She is currently working on books including 1000
Women in Horror, a book on
art and intertextuality
in giallo cinema, and co-editing a
collection about the film work of Elaine May for Edinburgh University Press's ReFocus series.
There is no place
in the hotel where
art photography is not present, the
collection gives the lead role to
women that seem to be the rulers of the place.
The
collection is particularly strong
in art by
women, with specific depth
in work by Louise Bourgeois, Mona Hatoum, Nan Goldin, Doris Salcedo, and Cindy Sherman.
Today works by Rose Wylie are included
in the public
collections of Tate Britain, London; Walker
Art Gallery, Liverpool; National Museum of
Women in the
Arts, Washington, DC;
Arts Council of England; Contemporary
Art Society, London; Hammer Collection, Los Angeles; Jerwood Foundation, London; the Norwich Gallery, Norwich; Städtische Galerie Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg.
1981 Amerikanische Malerei 1930 — 1980, Haus der Kunst, Munich (November 14, 1981 — January 31, 1982) Ciba - Geigy Collects: Aspects of Abstraction, Sewall
Art Gallery, Rice University, Houston (September 8 — October 24)
Art Américain: Oeuvres des
collections du Musée national d'
art moderns, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (September 2 — December 2) 45th Annual Mid-Year Show, Butler Institute of American
Art, Youngstown, Ohio (June 28 — August 30) 26 Salon de Montrouge, Montrouge, France (spring) 37th Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary Painting: Frank Stella, Joan Mitchell, Richard Diebenkorn, Agnes Martin, Richard Serra, Corcoran Gallery of
Art, Washington, D.C. (February 19 — April 5) 1980 The Originals:
Women in Art, Graham Gallery, New York (January 15 — February 20)
Examples of Immi Storrs's work can be found
in various private and public
collections around the country, including the Albany Museum, Albany, Georgia; the Snite Museum, Notre Dame, Indiana; the National Academy Museum, New York; and the National Museum for
Women in the
Arts, Washington, D.C.
ARTnews magazine has devoted its June issue to a special report assessing the state of
women in the
art world — how
women artists are faring
in terms of solo museum exhibitions and representation
in museum
collections, gallery representation, press coverage and market valuation, and also measuring opportunities garnered by female curators and museum directors.
Alter had been assembling the
collection since the 1980s after realizing that work by
women artists was severely underrepresented
in most
art museums, and had intended from the start that the
collection would one day go to a museum.
As Alter wrote
in 2010, «My hope was to find a museum emphasizing inclusion and diversity, one working toward greater representation of
art by
women and artists of color
in its permanent
collection, exhibitions and outreach programs; where the
art by
women would be fully accessible to students, teachers, scholars and the general public; and where my
collection would be enthusiastically welcomed because it embodied the institution's vision.»
Traveled to Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris (February 12 — May 11, 2008) Be — Bomb: The Transatlantic War of Images and all that Jazz
in the 1950s, Museu d'
Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA), Spain (October 5, 2007 — January 7, 2008) Contemporary and Cutting Edge: Pleasures of Collecting, Part III, Bruce Museum, Greenwich, Connecticut (September 29, 2007 — January 6, 2008) Twentieth - Century American
Women Artists from the Frances Lehman Loeb
Art Center, Vassar College, Gallery at the Park Avenue Bank, New York, New York (September 17 — November 2) Americans
in Paris: Abstract Painting
in the Fifties, Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York (July 16 — September 29) French Kiss, JGM Galerie, Paris, France (May 25 — July 13) When
Art Worlds Collide: The 60s, Woodward Gallery, New York (May 17 — July 14) An Architect Collects: Robert D. Kleinschmidt and a Lifetime of Fine
Arts Acquisitions, Krannert
Art Museum and Kinkead Pavilion, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign (April 20 — July 29) Gestes, Signes, Traces, Espaces: Figures de la peinture moderne française dans les
collections publiques normandes, Musée d'
art moderne André Malraux, Le Havre, France (February 17 — April 30).
For PAFA, Alter's gift of her
Art by
Women collection was unprecedented (
in scope, theme, and size)
in PAFA's history.
Her work is included
in such museum
collections as the Chicago
Art Institute, the National Museum of
Women in the
Arts, The Brooklyn Museum, and the Corcoran Gallery of
Art.
NEWS From the
collection of Fisk University, FLORINE STETTHEIMER's «Asbury Park South» (1920) was on view
in the exhibition «O'Keeffe, Stettheimer, Torr, Zorach:
Women Modernists
in New York» at the Portland Museum of
Art in Maine (June 24 - Sept.
2011 Carolina Collects: 150 Years of Modern and Contemporary
Art from Alumni
Collections, Ackland
Art Museum, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (September 9 — December 4) Points of View: Selections from Seven Colorado
Collections, CU
Art Museum, University of Colorado, Boulder (September 8 — December 17) Amerika - Europa: Bluhm, Kline, Motherwell, Dubuffet, Götz, Tàpies, Thomkins, Kunsthandel Wolfgang Werner, Berlin (September 7 — November 15) Abstract Expressionism and its Discontents, Annenberg Gallery, Pennsylvania, Academy of Fine
Arts, Philadelphia (June 17 — August 28) The
Women in Our Life: A Fifteen Year Anniversary Exhibition, Cheim & Read, New York (June 30 — September 9) Tibor de Nagy Gallery: Painters & Poets, Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York (January 15 — March 5)
Biomorphic Forms
in Sculpture,» Kunsthaus Graz, September 27, 2008 — January 11, 2009 «AURUM Gold
in Contemporary
Art,» curated by Dolores Denaro, CentrePasquArt, Biel, Switzerland, September 13 — November 30, 2008 «Red Wind,» Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA, June 28 — August 23, 2008 «Collecting
Collections: Highlights from the Permanent Collection of the Museum of Contemporary
Art, Los Angeles,» Museum of Contemporary
Art, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, February 9 — May 19 2007 «Celebrating the Lucelia Artist Award, 2001 - 2006,» Smithsonian American
Art Museum, Washington, D.C., September 21, 2007 — June 22, 2008 «Makers and Modelers: Works
in Ceramic,» Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY, September 8 — October 13, 2007 «Blood Meridan,» curated by David Hunt, Galerie Michael Janssen, Berlin, Germany, April 27 — May 26, 2007 «From Close to Home: Recent Acquisitions of Los Angeles
Art,» Museum of Contemporary
Art, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, April 1 — July 2 «eight sculptors from los angeles,» sabine knust, Münich, Germany, March 22 — April 17, 2007 «Multiple Vantage Points: Southern California
Women Artists, 1980 - 2006,» curated by Dextra Frankel, Los Angeles Municipal Gallery at Barnsdall, Los Angeles, CA, February 25 — April 15, 2007 «Fast Forward: Contemporary
Collections for the Dallas Museum of
Art,» Dallas Museum of
Art, Dallas, Texas, February 11 — May 20, 2007; cat.
Conceived as a series of interrelated and rotating stand - alone exhibitions, this presentation will highlight major singular works from the
collection, such as a newly acquired monumental cut - paper silhouette tableau by Kara Walker, as well as the Barbara Lee
Collection of
Art by Women, groupings of work by artists held in depth such as Louise Bourgeois and Nan Goldin, and thematic and art - historical groupin
Art by
Women, groupings of work by artists held
in depth such as Louise Bourgeois and Nan Goldin, and thematic and
art - historical groupin
art - historical groupings.
Her works are
in the
collections of the Reykjavík Municipal
Art Museum, Kjarvalstaðir, Iceland, the Hirschhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institute, Washington, D.C., The National Museum of
Women in the
Arts, Washington, D.C. and the Portland Museum of
Art, Maine.
Photography and video works drawn from the
collection of the National Museum of
Women in the
Arts, Washington, D.C. go on display at the Whitechapel Gallery 18 January -16 April.
Last October, the
women appeared at the San Jose Museum of
Art to protest the dearth of
women artists
in the museum's
collection and exhibitions.
«While we do not operate positive discrimination
in relation to
women artists Tate is keen to address areas where, historically,
women artists may have been unduly neglected,» explains Ann Gallagher, Head of
Collections (British
Art).
Works by Il Lee are represented
in major
collections including the Metropolitan Museum of
Art, New York; Leeum Samsung Museum of
Art, Seoul; San Jose Museum of
Art, CA; Vilcek Foundation, New York; Palm Springs
Art Museum, CA; Société Bic, France; National Museum of Modern and Contemporary
Art Korea; Total Museum, Seoul; Hong - Ik University, Seoul; and Duksung
Women's University, Seoul.
GoMA has been researching and acquiring documentary media by influential female artists since 2007, increasing the representation of
women working
in this field within the city's
collection and highlighting the contribution of female artists to contemporary
art practice overall.
Last November, Georgia O'Keeffe's Jimson Weed / Flower No. 1 became the most expensive work by a female artist ever sold at auction, fetching $ 44.4 million (see Wall Flowers —
women in historical
art collections).
Similarly at the Tate, «We are actively trying to increase representation of
women in the
collection, across all periods,» says Ann Gallagher, «but there is naturally better representation for contemporary
art.
Both spaces for temporary exhibitions draw on the permanent
collection, as does a small alcove
in modern
art for work by
women.
Statistics from 2012 reveal that 90 per cent of the visual artists featured
in art books were men; work by women artists made up three to five per cent of major permanent collections in the US and Europe; artworks by female artists achieved none of the highest 100 auction prices; of The Art Newspaper's top 30 most visited exhibitions in New York, Paris, and London, only three were solo exhibitions featuring female artis
art books were men; work by
women artists made up three to five per cent of major permanent
collections in the US and Europe; artworks by female artists achieved none of the highest 100 auction prices; of The
Art Newspaper's top 30 most visited exhibitions in New York, Paris, and London, only three were solo exhibitions featuring female artis
Art Newspaper's top 30 most visited exhibitions
in New York, Paris, and London, only three were solo exhibitions featuring female artists.
Written
in the first surge of the most significant feminist movement since the suffragettes, Nochlin's 1971 essay marked the beginning of an era
in which public
art institutions were challenged about the representation of
women in their
collections.
Edition number five of six from the bronze edition is
in the
collection of the National Museum of
Women in the
Arts, Washington D. C.
Among the museums where Chicago's work is
in the permanent
collections are the British Museum, the Brooklyn Museum of
Art, the Getty Trust, the Los Angeles County Museum of
Art, the National Gallery, the National Museum of
Women in the
Arts, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine
Arts, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern
Art.
Women have also had central places
in surveys of the 1970s quite apart from feminism — such as Jennifer Bartlett
in the Broida
collection, Benglis
in «High Times, Hard Times,» and Marina Abramovic and Carolee Schneemann
in one after another regurgitation of shock
art at P.S. 1.
Inequality
in almost every area of the
art world was obvious: male artists dominated both historic
collections and also exhibitions of contemporary
art;
women were excluded or absent from major
art history books; almost all the staff
in art institutions and universities were men; and work by female artists had less commercial value.
He began the first of these paintings,
Woman I,
collection: The Museum of Modern
Art, New York City,
in June 1950, repeatedly changing and painting out the image until January or February 1952, when the painting was abandoned unfinished.
This year's programme includes exhibitions,
collections and talks from Alicja Kwade, Guerrilla Girls, and the National Museum of
Women in the
Arts from Washington D.C, Emma Hart, Leonor Antunes, and Anthea Hamilton.
«Echoing Inka Essenhigh «s controversial use of unicorns and other fantasias
in her recent work, Yuskavage has sunk her erotic smurfs into a lime green never - never land that veers a little too close to the juvenile tastes of Michael Jackson's Ranch
Art collection,... read more... «Charlie Finch on Yusavage and Rothenberg: The not - so - innocent girl child vs. the older
woman who has actually lived»
Data gathered from the Met's public
collections in 1989 showed that
women artists had produced less than 5 % of the works
in the Modern
Art Department, while 85 % of the nudes were female.
It ranges from the NMWA's
women only
collection and exhibition - programme to an entire wing of the Brooklyn Museum being dedicated to feminist
art; there's also The Metropolitan Museum of Art's decision to show work by lesser - known artists like Helen Torr and Elizabeth Catlett that has never been on view in «Reimagining Modernism: 1900 — 1950» (the rehang of their modern art collection); and there's the recent acquisition by the Tate of a painting by Mary Beale, who is regarded as Britain's first professional female arti
art; there's also The Metropolitan Museum of
Art's decision to show work by lesser - known artists like Helen Torr and Elizabeth Catlett that has never been on view in «Reimagining Modernism: 1900 — 1950» (the rehang of their modern art collection); and there's the recent acquisition by the Tate of a painting by Mary Beale, who is regarded as Britain's first professional female arti
Art's decision to show work by lesser - known artists like Helen Torr and Elizabeth Catlett that has never been on view
in «Reimagining Modernism: 1900 — 1950» (the rehang of their modern
art collection); and there's the recent acquisition by the Tate of a painting by Mary Beale, who is regarded as Britain's first professional female arti
art collection); and there's the recent acquisition by the Tate of a painting by Mary Beale, who is regarded as Britain's first professional female artist.
NO MAN»S LAND:
WOMEN ARTISTS FROM THE RUBELL FAMILY COLLECTION National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washingt
WOMEN ARTISTS FROM THE RUBELL FAMILY
COLLECTION National Museum of
Women in the Arts, Washingt
Women in the
Arts, Washington DC
MoMA PS1 presents Modern
Women: Single Channel, a group exhibition drawn from the collection of The Museum of Modern Art focusing on the work of eleven women artists in single - channel v
Women: Single Channel, a group exhibition drawn from the
collection of The Museum of Modern
Art focusing on the work of eleven
women artists in single - channel v
women artists
in single - channel video.
The
collection of the National Museum of
Women in the Arts (NMWA), Washington, D.C., is rich in photography, a field in which women have been pioneers since the medium's inception in the nineteenth century. www.whitechapelgallery.org/exhibitions/terrains-of-the -
Women in the
Arts (NMWA), Washington, D.C., is rich
in photography, a field
in which
women have been pioneers since the medium's inception in the nineteenth century. www.whitechapelgallery.org/exhibitions/terrains-of-the -
women have been pioneers since the medium's inception
in the nineteenth century. www.whitechapelgallery.org/exhibitions/terrains-of-the - body
The Whitechapel Gallery presents photography and video works from the
collection of the National Museum of
Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C., the only international museum dedicated to women artists, on display in spring
Women in the
Arts, Washington, D.C., the only international museum dedicated to
women artists, on display in spring
women artists, on display
in spring 2017.
Announcing highlights from Whitechapel Gallery's Spring / Summer 2017 programme: A major retrospective of Eduardo Paolozzi; «Terrains of the Body», a display drawn from
collection of the National Museum of
Women in the
Arts; plus archive displays, commissions and special events
Her work can be found
in prominent
collections throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia, including the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; National Museum of
Women in the
Arts, Washington, D.C.; Space K, Seoul; Städtische Galerie Wolfsburg, Germany; and Tate Britain, London.
German Witch joins the ICA's important
collection of
art made by
women, enriching the museum's strength
in figurative works and expanding the holdings with a major work on paper.
Semmel's paintings are part of the permanent
collections of the
Art Institute of Chicago, IL; Brooklyn Museum, New York; Museum of Fine
Arts, Houston, TX; Institute of Contemporary
Art, Boston, MA; Blanton Museum of
Art, Austin, TX; Orange County Museum of
Art, CA; Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, VA; National Museum of
Women in the
Arts, Washington, DC; The Parrish
Art Museum, Southampton, NY; the Jocelyn
Art Museum, Omaha, NE; the Jewish Museum, New York; among others.
The Denver
Art Museum now has eight new acquisitions and three promised gifts by
women abstract expressionist artists
in our
collection.
The Whitechapel Gallery presents a display of photography and video works drawn from
collection of the National Museum of
Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C. Works by seventeen contemporary artists from five continents capture women on camera in domestic spaces and expansive landsc
Women in the
Arts, Washington, D.C. Works by seventeen contemporary artists from five continents capture
women on camera in domestic spaces and expansive landsc
women on camera
in domestic spaces and expansive landscapes.