Described as «the first U.S. presentation dedicated exclusively to the formal and historical dialogue of abstraction
by women artists of color,» this exhibition features more than 20 practitioners across three generations, including Chakaia Booker, Lillian Thomas Burwell, Maren Hassinger, Jennie C. Jones, Howardena Pindell, Mavis Pusey, Alma Thomas, Mildred Thompson, and Brenna Youngblood.
Magnetic Fields marks the first U.S. presentation dedicated exclusively to the formal and historical dialogue of abstraction
by women artists of color.
In the June 2014 ARTnews article «Black Abstraction: Not a Contradiction,» Hilarie M. Sheets aptly notes, «The contributions of African American artists to the inventions of abstract [art] have historically been overlooked...» Magnetic Fields focuses on non-representational art making
by women artists of color, reframing the art historical narrative to convey a more complete presentation of American abstraction than has ever previously been examined.
Magnetic Fields: Expanding American Abstraction, 1960s to Today is the first American exhibition dedicated exclusively to the formal and historical dialogue of abstraction
by women artists of color.
Magnetic Fields aims to change this perspective by focusing on nonrepresentational work
by women artists of color, presenting a more complete presentation of American abstraction than has previously been offered.
Not exact matches
May 19, 2018 • The Baltimore Museum
of Art is selling off part
of its collection — including works
by Andy Warhol and Robert Rauschenberg — to fund the purchase
of more work
by women and
artists of color.
GraySpace Gallery 219 Gray Ave Abstractions: 2
Woman Artists, abstract paintings
by Dahlia Riley and Peggy Ferris, a simple play
of color and rhythm in a visual melody that words can not describe, involving a mix
of intention, intuition and chance.
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.»
In addition, he sought works
by women,
artists of color, and native and foreign - born or self - taught
artists, so that the collection represented a «fusion
of various sensitivities» and a «unification
of differences» that would parallel the multicultural character
of the nation.
As a response to the current social and political climate in the United States, the Strange Fire Collective is looking for work made
by women, people
of color, and LGBTQ
artists that engages with issues
of social justice and critically questions the dominant social hierarchy for our upcoming exhibition Call and Response: Art as Resistance.
Each book contains a selection
of photocopied covers
of the monographs and solo exhibition catalogues
by women artists and
artists of color published during that period
of time and that were part
of the CalArts library collection.
Artists and curators comment on the Baltimore Museum of Art's decision to diversify its collection through recent acquisitions of works by women and artists of color and by deaccessioning repetitive
Artists and curators comment on the Baltimore Museum
of Art's decision to diversify its collection through recent acquisitions
of works
by women and
artists of color and by deaccessioning repetitive
artists of color and
by deaccessioning repetitive works.
Six
artists of color use performance, photography, textiles, and more to take on stories such as modern - day gentrification in Bed - Stuy, traced through an amateur kung fu film found at the former home
of a theater frequented
by Reverend Al Sharpton; the Syrian refugee crisis and conflict, mixing media coverage and first - person accounts; and the actual Revolutionary War's 1776 Battle
of Brooklyn, conducted
by a
woman of color.
Girl is a collaboration between a South Asian and an African American
artist that explores the societal baggage borne
by women of color who are frequently excluded from both feminist and racial - justice conversations.
It is a practice that commits itself to counter-hegemonic initiatives that give voice to those who have been historically silenced or omitted altogether — and, as such, focuses almost exclusively on work produced
by women,
artists of color, non-Euro-Americans, and / or queer
artists.
Color Field was arguably the first major art movement initiated
by a
woman, and that
woman was not present, in her own studio, to watch the wheels start turning in the heads
of two male
artists who, let's face it, were competitors?
Except for a smear
of blue
by Norman Lewis, Michael Rosenfeld avoids
color, but with a striking mix
of black and white
artists, both men and
women, from the 1930s to today.
Brooklyn Museum's «We Wanted a Revolution: Black Radical
Women, 1965 - 85» reorients the conversation around race, feminism, political activism and art during the emergence of second - wave feminism by highlighting the often dismissed work of women artists of c
Women, 1965 - 85» reorients the conversation around race, feminism, political activism and art during the emergence
of second - wave feminism
by highlighting the often dismissed work
of women artists of c
women artists of color.
Dating from the 1970s to 2005, the 11 quilts included in the Souls Grown Deep Foundation gift / purchase triple the High's existing holdings
of works
by these celebrated
women artists and demonstrate the incredible legacy
of their artistic production, which parallels many
of the experiments with
color, flatness and abstraction associated with postwar American painting.
In 2015, Dugan founded the Strange Fire
Artist Collective to highlight work made
by women, people
of color, and LGBTQ
artists.
After moving to New York, he and his partner Corrine Jennings established Kenkeleba House, a gallery that has presented innumerable exhibitions
of work
by artists of color and
women.
The question remains, how is it that so many
artists are still so marginalized
by race, ethnicity, and even gender when many celebrity
artists are
women and people
of color?
One
of the
artist's many portraits
of striking and wistful - looking
women, Sarah is an exemplary work
by Alex Katz — in this thirty - two
color silkscreen print, Katz's clean lines and minimal approach to portraiture are displayed, and the solid dark background, which is typical
of his compositions, offsets the model's bright blond hair, piercing blue eyes, and rosy lips.
One
of the
artist's many portraits
of striking and wistful - looking
women, Sophia is an exemplary work
by Alex Katz — in this thirty - eight
color silkscreen print, Katz's clean lines and minimal approach to portraiture are displayed, and the solid dark background, which is typical
of his compositions, offsets the model's shiny auburn hair, piercing blue eyes, and rosy lips.
Highlights from this include his piece Spiderman (2015), in which the
artist takes on the persona
of a trans
woman for a raunchy, politicized standup routine, and his signature large - scale abstract compositions, which he forms
by layering paper and paint before sanding them down to reveal previously - obscured layers
of color.
No
woman except Martin gets her own room in the Fisher galleries, and there are almost no
artists of color — though a tar - slathered wire mesh sculpture
by Martin Puryear is one
of the finest works here.
I don't believe that, maybe I should, I've been looking for work because it was done
by artists of color or
women.
SELECTED GROUP SHOWS: 2018 Open SpacesKansas City, MO 2018
Color of the Year Presented
by Pantone and X-RiteUrban Institute for Contemporary Art, Grand Rapids, MI 2017 Solar Flair: Celestial Bodies in MotionAlbrecht Kemper Museum
of Art, St. Joseph, MO 2017Light and ShadowMildred M. Cox Gallery Kemper Center for the Arts William Woods University, Fulton, MO 2017The 19th Annual National Juried Competition,: «Works
of Paper» 2017Long Beach Foundation
of the Arts & Sciences, Long Beach Island, NJ 2017 - 2018 Teardrops That Wound: the Absurdity
of War, George Tsutakawa Art Gallery, Wing Luke Museum
of the Asian and Pacific American Experience, Commission Work «Break Into Blossom», In collaboration with Phong Nguyen and Justin Shaw 2016 Vision: An
Artist's Perspective, Gutfeund Cornett Art Kaleid Gallery San Jose, CA 2016 Novus Conceptum, Hannah Bacol Busch Gallery Bellaire, TX 2015 Generations: Forty Hues Between Black and White, OCCCA (Orange County Center for Contemporary Art), Santa Ana, CA 2015 Somewhere Between Black and White, Fiber Art Network, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 2015 Old Enough To Know Better, Cranes Art Gallery 105, Philadelphia, PA 2014 The 2nd Annual Juried
Artist's Book Exhibition, WoCA Projects, Fort Worth, Texas 2014 The Living Mark Verum Ultimum Art Gallery, Portland OR 2014 Subconscious, Flow Art Gallery, St Louis MO 2014 A Dream and a Memory, St. Louis
Artist Guild, St. Louis MO 2013 Missouri 50, Fine Art Building Sedalia, MO 2013 Art / Identity, Gallery 263, Cambridge, MA 2013 26th Annual
Women's Work, Old Court House, Woodstock, IL 2012 Contemporary
Women Artists XVI, Saint Louis University Art Museum, St. Louis MO 2012 UCM Faculty Show, UCM Gallery
of Art and Design, Warrensburg, MO 2012
Color!
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.
[5] This exhibitions recontextualization
of contemporary Bay Area art (
by featured people
of color and
women), and showcased some
of the following
artists; Ruth Asawa, Bernice Bing, Rolando Castellon, Claude Clark, Robert Colescott, Frank Day, Rupert Garcia, Mike Henderson, Oliver Jackson, Frank LaPena, Linda Lomahaftewa, George Longfish, Ralph Maradiaga, José Montoya, Manuel Neri, Mary Lovelace O'Neil, Darryl Sapien, Raymond Saunders, James Suzuki, Horace Washington, Al Wong, René Yañez, Leo Valledor, and many more.
Out
of Easy Reach considers how
artists from two generations have been informed
by those before them; addressing the crisis
of visibility
of women of color within the narrative
of abstraction's history.
CA Spectral Hues, curated
by Sharon Bliss, Palo Alto Art Center, Palo Alto, CA Art Market, with Chandra Cerrito Contemporary, San Francisco, CA Building the Art House, curated
by Katherine Connell and Emma Spertus, Rosenberg Library, City College
of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA Big Idea, curated
by Sue Collier, Leslie Ford, Jack McWhorter and JoAnn Rothschild, The Painting Center, New York, NY Along the Lines, Harrington Gallery, curated
by Julie Finegan, Pleasanton, CA 2016 Plus +1, Trestle Contemporary Art Gallery, Brooklyn, NY Group show, November - December 2016, Galleri Urbane, Dallas, TX Palette, curated
by Kelly Inouye, Theodora Mauro and Lisa Solomon, ampersand international arts, San Francisco, CA Small Works, Trestle Gallery, Brooklyn, NY Art Market, with Chandra Cerrito Contemporary, San Francisco, CA 2015 Therely Bare Redux, Zeitgeist Gallery, Nashville, TN Therely Bare Redux, Clara M Eagle Gallery, University
of Tennessee, Murray Territory
of Abstraction, Pentimenti Gallery, Philadelphia, PA Out
of Storage, Studio 110 Projects, Sausalito, CA Art Market San Francisco, (with Chandra Cerrito Contemporary), San Francisco, CA The Airplane Show, B Sakata Garo, Sacramento, CA 2014 un.bound.ed, curated
by Brent Hallard and Don Voisine, Root Division, San Francisco, CA (edition) DOPPLER SHIFT, curated
by Mary Birmingham, Visual Arts Center, Summit, NJ (catalogue) The Intuitionists, curated
by Heather Hart, Steffani Jemison & Jina Valentine, The Drawing Center, New York, NY (catalogue) First / Last, curated
by Heather Phillips, Park Life, San Francisco, CA 2013 DOPPLER, Parallel Art Space, Brooklyn, NY (catalogue) Generations IX: The Red / Pink Show, A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY Made In Paint: 2012
Artists in Residence, The Sam & Adele Golden Gallery, New Berlin, NY Rituals
of Exhibition II, Light Space Project, H Gallery, Chiang Mai, Thailand Rituals
of Exhibition, curated
by Giles Ryder and Gilbert Hsiao, Don't Be Selfish, Phayao, Thailand POSTE CONCRET II, curated
by Richard van der Aa, ParisCONCRET, Paris, FR 2012 Soft Luminosity, curated
by Guido Winkler and Iemke van Dijk, IS Projects, Leiden, NL (edition) Art On Paper 2012, The Weatherspoon Museum
of Art, Greensboro, NC (brochure) Islands
of Order in a Sea
of Chaos, curated
by Ruth van Veenen, de Vishal, Haarlem, NL Doppler Stop, Amsterdams Grafisch Atelier, Amsterdam, NL (catalogue) Doppler Stop, Kunst & Complex, Rotterdam, NL Doppler Stop, Fluctuating Images / General Public, Berlin, DE Doppler Stop, trenutak.39 / Museum
of Contemporary Art, Zagreb, HR Trade - O - Mat, curated
by Kathryn Kenworth, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA 2011 A Romance
of Many Dimensions, curated
by Brent Hallard, Brooklyn
Artists Gym, Brooklyn, NY POSTE CONCRET I, curated
by Richard van der Aa, ParisCONCRET, Paris, FR BYO, IS Projects, Leiden, NL Stop & Go Rides Again, touring exhibition curated
by Sarah Klein, Z Space, San Francisco, US; Kunst & Complex, Rotterdam, NL; Fluctuating Images / General Public, Berlin, DE; Fluctuating Images / Interventionstraum, Stuttgart, DE An Exchange with Sol Lewitt, Massachussetts Museum
of Contemporary Art, North Adams, MA (catalogue) ReTrace, Cesar Chavez Art Gallery, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA 2010 TOUCH, curated
by Brent Hallard, ParisCONCRET, Paris, FR (catalogue) Factor XX, curated
by Jenny Balisle, Los Gatos Museum, Los Gatos, CA (catalogue) The Rule
of Typical Things, Gregory Lind Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2009 TRANS: form
color, Meridian Gallery, San Francisco, CA (catalogue) TRANSformal, Pharmaka, Los Angeles, CA (brochure) The Grid, curated by JT Kirkland, MP5, Portland, OR 2008 Calculated Color, curated by Jane Lincoln, Higgins Art Gallery, Cape Cod, MA (brochure) The Space Between, curated by Cathy Kimbell, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA (brochure) Close Calls, Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA (also 2005, 2004) TOUCH, curated by Brent Hallard, Busdori, Tokyo, Japan Out of the Fog: Artists from Headlands Center for the Arts, curated by Dianne Romaine and Holly Blake, Art works Downtown, San Rafael, CA 2007 TRANS: Abstraktion, Weltraum, Munich, DE (brochure) 7 - 07 Hung Liu curates 7 Women Artists in the year of the Pig, b.Sakata Garo, Sacramento, CA (brochure) Bay Area Currents, The Oakland Art Gallery, Oakland, CA Visual Noise, UMC Gallery, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO The Unknown Quantity, Gregory Lind Gallery, San Francisco, CA Systems & Transmutations, Root Division, San Francisco, CA (catalogue) Still, Contemporary Quarterly, curated by Chandra Cerrito, www.ContemporaryQuarterly.com (brochure) 2006 Suitcase: Bus - Dori, curated by Brent Hallard, Tokyo, JP Summertime, Judy Saslow Gallery, Chicago, IL microcosm, curated by Victoria Wagner, Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA (brochure) Sketch, The Memorial Union Gallery, University of California at Davis, Davis, CA 2005 Contemporary Perspectives, Museum of Contemporary Art, Santa Rosa, CA 2004 and now they ar
color, Meridian Gallery, San Francisco, CA (catalogue) TRANSformal, Pharmaka, Los Angeles, CA (brochure) The Grid, curated
by JT Kirkland, MP5, Portland, OR 2008 Calculated
Color, curated by Jane Lincoln, Higgins Art Gallery, Cape Cod, MA (brochure) The Space Between, curated by Cathy Kimbell, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA (brochure) Close Calls, Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA (also 2005, 2004) TOUCH, curated by Brent Hallard, Busdori, Tokyo, Japan Out of the Fog: Artists from Headlands Center for the Arts, curated by Dianne Romaine and Holly Blake, Art works Downtown, San Rafael, CA 2007 TRANS: Abstraktion, Weltraum, Munich, DE (brochure) 7 - 07 Hung Liu curates 7 Women Artists in the year of the Pig, b.Sakata Garo, Sacramento, CA (brochure) Bay Area Currents, The Oakland Art Gallery, Oakland, CA Visual Noise, UMC Gallery, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO The Unknown Quantity, Gregory Lind Gallery, San Francisco, CA Systems & Transmutations, Root Division, San Francisco, CA (catalogue) Still, Contemporary Quarterly, curated by Chandra Cerrito, www.ContemporaryQuarterly.com (brochure) 2006 Suitcase: Bus - Dori, curated by Brent Hallard, Tokyo, JP Summertime, Judy Saslow Gallery, Chicago, IL microcosm, curated by Victoria Wagner, Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA (brochure) Sketch, The Memorial Union Gallery, University of California at Davis, Davis, CA 2005 Contemporary Perspectives, Museum of Contemporary Art, Santa Rosa, CA 2004 and now they ar
Color, curated
by Jane Lincoln, Higgins Art Gallery, Cape Cod, MA (brochure) The Space Between, curated
by Cathy Kimbell, San Jose Institute
of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA (brochure) Close Calls, Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA (also 2005, 2004) TOUCH, curated
by Brent Hallard, Busdori, Tokyo, Japan Out
of the Fog:
Artists from Headlands Center for the Arts, curated
by Dianne Romaine and Holly Blake, Art works Downtown, San Rafael, CA 2007 TRANS: Abstraktion, Weltraum, Munich, DE (brochure) 7 - 07 Hung Liu curates 7
Women Artists in the year
of the Pig, b.Sakata Garo, Sacramento, CA (brochure) Bay Area Currents, The Oakland Art Gallery, Oakland, CA Visual Noise, UMC Gallery, University
of Colorado, Boulder, CO The Unknown Quantity, Gregory Lind Gallery, San Francisco, CA Systems & Transmutations, Root Division, San Francisco, CA (catalogue) Still, Contemporary Quarterly, curated
by Chandra Cerrito, www.ContemporaryQuarterly.com (brochure) 2006 Suitcase: Bus - Dori, curated
by Brent Hallard, Tokyo, JP Summertime, Judy Saslow Gallery, Chicago, IL microcosm, curated
by Victoria Wagner, Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA (brochure) Sketch, The Memorial Union Gallery, University
of California at Davis, Davis, CA 2005 Contemporary Perspectives, Museum
of Contemporary Art, Santa Rosa, CA 2004 and now they aren't.
Brown also reacts against the appropriation
of certain bodies and histories
by artists, including those
of women and people
of color.
New York gallery Cheim & Read will address the recent
Women's March with a booth featuring works
by many different
artists (many
of them ultra famous like Louise Bourgeois and Andy Warhol)-- all inspired
by the
color pink.
The Windy City iteration, working with the curators, has added works
by Nan Goldin, Barbara Kruger, and African - American activist
artist Howardena Pindell, as well as local
artists, many
of whom are
of color and / or are
women
Artist Maxine Helfman's «Historical Correction» series re-creates old Flemish portraits
by replacing the posed subjects with men and
women of color.
These recollections were part
of a series
of conversations I had recently with
artists, curators, and museum professionals, after the Baltimore Museum
of Art announced last month that it would be diversifying its collection to enhance visitor experience through recent acquisitions
of works
by women and
artists of color and
by deaccessioning repetitive works.
The Baltimore Museum
of Art will deepen its holdings
of works
by women and
artists of color using funds from sales
of seven redundant works.
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).
Although less than 25 percent
of the lots are
by women artists, some significant works
by women are for sale: «Roots,» a poignant
color screen print
by Catlett that the gallery says has not been seen at auction in 20 years (shown above); «March on Washington,» 1964 (oil on canvas), a beautifully rendered painting
by Alma Thomas (1891 - 1978); Faith Ringgold's 1974 «Night: Window
of the Wedding 8,» touted as the first
of her fabric paintings to be offered at auction (shown below); and «Still Life with Grapefruit,» 1928, described on the frame backing as Lois Mailou Jones's first painting, completed a year after she graduated from the School
of the Museum
of Fine Arts in Boston.
Los Angeles based
artist Soey Milk paints confident young
women in boldly
colored clothing inspired
by the imagery
of her Korean heritage.
HELEN FRANKENTHALER (B. 1928) Sanguine Mood (Harrison 33) pochoir and screenprint in
colors, 1971, on J.B. Green Hayle Mill English handmade paper, signed and dated in pencil, numbered 2/75 (there were also 5
artist's proofs), published
by the
Women's Board Commission, San Francisco Museum
of Art, the full sheet, in excellent condition, framed S. 22 3/4 x 18 in.
The first was the establishment
of the Black
Women Artists for Black Lives Matter (BWA for BLM), a collective of over one hundred women of color spearheaded by Simone Leigh, which «focuses on the interdependence of care and action... in order to highlight and renounce pervasive conditions of racism.&r
Women Artists for Black Lives Matter (BWA for BLM), a collective
of over one hundred
women of color spearheaded by Simone Leigh, which «focuses on the interdependence of care and action... in order to highlight and renounce pervasive conditions of racism.&r
women of color spearheaded
by Simone Leigh, which «focuses on the interdependence
of care and action... in order to highlight and renounce pervasive conditions
of racism.»
And, subtlely, the eyes manufactured for use in Hindu temples arranged
by Indian
artist Anita Dube «River Disease (Version 2),» a wall piece that could be a depiction
of a river, but also looks like a hand or a claw connected in odd fashion with the eyes in Laurie Simmons» «How We See / Edie (Green),» a large
color photograph
of a
woman with eyes painted on her eyelids.
This exhibition explores the highly formulated and transitional status
of geometrical abstraction in the work
of women artists from three generations: beginning with (Neo) concrete works on paper from the 1950s
by Lygia Pape, to Minimal and
Color Field paintings from the 1960s
by Rosemarie Castoro and Gina Pane, the 1960 - 80s Pop Art influenced pattern paintings
by Barbro Östlihn, to post-Concretist installations, structural and systemic experiments and text pieces from the 1970s and 80s
by Lydia Okumura, Lenora de Barros, Martha Araújo, Dóra Maurer and Samia Halaby, to the original contemporary formulations
of this history
by Paloma Bosquê.
«The Worlds
of Bernice Bing» Produced and directed
by Madeleine Lim Co-Producer and Project Director, Jennifer Banta Yoshida Presented
by the Asian American
Women Artists Association and the Queer
Women of Color Media Arts Project...
From Derrick Adams's inventive adaptations
of politically - charged designs
by black fashion pioneer Patrick Kelly, to Firelei Báez's reimagining
of Judy Chicago's The Dinner Party to grant
women of color their rightful seat at the table,
artists are resurfacing visual languages from the past to comment on contemporary socio - political culture.
Women Students and Artists for Black Art Liberation, founded by Faith Ringgold and her daughters Michele Wallace and Barbara Wallace, protested the lack of women and people of color in the Whitney Museum's influential Annual Exhibition in
Women Students and
Artists for Black Art Liberation, founded
by Faith Ringgold and her daughters Michele Wallace and Barbara Wallace, protested the lack
of women and people of color in the Whitney Museum's influential Annual Exhibition in
women and people
of color in the Whitney Museum's influential Annual Exhibition in 1970.
Highlights include works
by the iconic 19th - century painter Childe Hassam, who popularized impressionism in the United States with his lush city scenes and natural landscapes; Japanese American
artist Yasuo Kuniyoshi's bold image
of the modern
woman as a bather in the 1920s; and a recent minimalist seascape
by photographer Catherine Opie that reduces the ocean to subtle, ethereal layers
of color in which the human figure is almost overwhelmed
by natural environment.
This exhibition will include four works: a Giacometti painted bronze sculpture, Standing
Woman, 1948; a large Mark di Suvero sculpture in metal and wood, entitled The A Train, 1966; a large - scale
color photograph
by Jeff Wall, A ventriloquist at a birthday party in October 1947, 1990; and a suite
of seven carved wood sculptures
by the American folk
artist Edgar Tolson, entitled The Fall
of Man.