NMWA writes an article for Hyperallergic about the challenges in collecting data
about women artists of color.
Not exact matches
What
about the advertising and comic - strip palette
of Pop Art, digital
artists for whom Photoshop's
Color Picker translates so easily into hexadecimal, the drab
of camouflage in political art, or many a
woman artist's grids
of tapestry and tile?
CV: Your activity
of late, I would say in the late seven to eight years, I'm just being very general, you've pretty much picked a path in which you started looking at the work
of artists of color and I know that in your travels you started seeing work by
women and I'm wondering what they've been saying
about the cannon.
While it may be easy to paint the «creative differences» between Vergne and Molesworth as one
of the director favoring blue - chip white male
artists, and the curator wanting to create a more inclusive platform for
women and
artists of color, what can be said
about the urged retirement
of the long - term senior curator
of color, who had been doing that work all along?»
MS. RICHARDS: This exodus has nothing to do with the exodus
of - that other Guerrilla Girls that have talked
about -
of Asian
artists or
of women of color from the group?
I am infinitely grateful that I have survived exclusion, and yet I'm aware
of many
artists of color, queer
artists, and / or
women artists of my generation who did really good work that you just don't hear
about anymore.
Other select projects include: Artistic Producer for the 4th annual Chicago Home Theater Festival, a 10 - day festival
of artistic exchange within neighborhoods that have experienced systemic disinvestment featuring narratives by and
about artists of color,
women and femmes, migrants and immigrants, LGBTQ
artists, and
artists with disabilities (2016), and Project Coordinator for Our Miss Brooks: A Centennial Celebration, a national a year - long multidisciplinary celebration on the occasion
of the 100th birthday
of Pulitzer Prize winning poet Gwendolyn Brooks (2017).
They added, «This exhibition is intended to be a platform to further their visibility, as well as to generate more inclusive conversations
about the history
of American abstraction that consider the accomplishments and contributions
of women artists of color going forward.»
As
artist Coco Fusco would rightly point out later, the ensuing debate brought to reality the Scanlan character's «castration fantasy
about white male erasure» at the hands
of a newly empowered group
of younger, politically savvy
artists and critics who read the works not from Scanlan's vantage point, but as
women of color.
«This exhibition is intended to be a platform to further their visibility, as well as to generate more inclusive conversations
about the history
of American abstraction that consider the accomplishments and contributions
of women artists of color going forward.»
A large
color photo graph
of the
artist lying at the edge
of an algae - covered swamp with red flowers sprinkled
about joins the current craze among photographers, especially
women, for girl - in - the - landscape melodrama.
That's how we did our exhibition
about the Whitney Museum's pathetic record
of not showing
women and
artists of color.
Select group exhibitions featuring her work include Third Space / Shifting Conversations
About Contemporary Art, Birmingham Museum
of Art, AL (2017); Constructing Identity: Petrucci Family Foundation Collection
of African - American Art, Portland Art Museum, ME (2017); The
Color Line: African American
Artists and the Civil Rights in the United States, Musée du quai Branly, Paris (2016); SHE: International
Women Artists, Long Museum, Shanghai (2016); No Man's Land:
Women Artists from the Rubell Family Collection, Rubell Family Collection, Miami, traveled to the National Museum
of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC (2015); 30 Americans, Corcoran Gallery
of Art, Washington, DC (2011), which has traveled extensively around the United States (2011 - 2017, ongoing); and Americans Now, National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC (2010).