Artsy explores why San Antonio - based patrons Steven Alan Bennett and Dr. Elaine Melotti Schmidt founded the Bennett Prize, a biannual grant that will award funding to
emerging women painters who live in the U.S. and work in a figurative realist style.
Not exact matches
She was among a handful of
woman painters of her generation — roughly that which
emerged in the 1970s — who cracked the glass ceiling of the art hierarchy.
Hot dogs, lamps, knobs, cranks,
women, and the
painter's persona all inhabit the gallery, and through decontextualization and embodiment,
emerge as figurative terms hovering on abstraction, not unlike proper nouns.
It's as though, despite the enormous cultural and historical distance that separates Mexico half a century ago from contemporary Brazil, any
woman painter from anywhere south of Texas must have
emerged from the same current.
Initially trained as an abstract
painter, Corse (b. 1945)
emerged in the mid-1960s as one of the few
women associated with the West Coast Light and Space movement.
Initially trained as an abstract
painter, Corse (b. 1945, Berkeley, CA)
emerged in the mid-1960s as one of the few
women associated with the West Coast Light and Space movement.