An influential figure in the art world for over 40 years, Pindell has remained committed to expanding opportunities
for women artists of color.
Granted, there's still a long way to go for equal representation, particularly
for women artists of color.
Not exact matches
As part
of a larger series,
artist Mel Elliott created this
coloring book as a way to celebrate womanhood and appreciate
women for their strengths — can't argue with that goal!
At that time I felt like there weren't a lot
of makeup options
for darker skin tones available, and the makeup
artists at the department store counters seemed to think that loading up the darkest shades
of shadow, blush, and lipstick was the only way to go --(this is before YouTube changed the world
of makeup
for women of color)-- that's when I decided to take matters in to my own hands and I became sort
of obsessed with playing with makeup.
Ava DuVernay's adaptation
of Madeleine L'Engle's kid - lit fantasy classic not only marks a step forward
for diversity — with the film, DuVernay becomes the first
woman of color to direct a $ 100 million blockbuster — but
for DuVernay as an
artist.
The Screenwriters Intensive is
for first - time fiction feature writers or writer / directors who come from underrepresented communities, including
women,
artists of color, LGBTQ
artists, and
artists with disabilities.
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.
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.
Alfred Lombard was a famous French
artist widely known
for his paintings where he often depicted nude
women in brilliant arrangements
of colors.
Join us
for a discussion on Thompson's work and influences, as well as the changing landscape
of abstraction as a field that is becoming more inclusive to
women and
artists of color.
Cross is a passionate advocate
for diversity in the arts, founding WoCA Projects, a nonprofit arts organization that curates exhibitions and community arts programs that champion
women artists of color.
Aimed to empower and dedicated to other
women of color that share similar experiences, the gallery serves as a save place
for artists to share their thoughts and examine how images can drive their process
of healing.
NMWA writes an article
for Hyperallergic about the challenges in collecting data about
women artists of color.
The exhibition's final three sections — the Dionysian Pavilion, devoted to
women artists and
artists addressing
women and female sexuality, and the Pavilions
of Color and
of Time and Infinity — are far too broad and nebulous to be helpful frames
for any
of the (often great) works therein.
As if in reply to Buren, Fraser argues that
artists, through their critiques
of the limitations and biases
of institutions, have been the driving force behind the museum's expanded purview, its progress (however insufficient) toward showing more
women artists,
artists of color, and gay
artists,
for example, and toward supporting works in all mediums.
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.
I don't believe that, maybe I should, I've been looking
for work because it was done by
artists of color or
women.
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?
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!
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.
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?»
In 1969, he became a founding member
of the Black Emergency Cultural Coalition (BECC), which formed coalitions with other
artists» groups, protested the exclusion
of women and men
of color from institutional and historical canons, and advocated
for greater representation
of black
artists, curators, and intellectuals within major museums.
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).
Andrews taught
for nearly three decades at Queens College
of the City University
of New York and co-founded the Black Emergency Cultural Coalition in 1969 to fight
for inclusion
of artists of color and
women artists in establishment galleries and museum collections.
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.
GGOT develops plays, performances, street theatre actions and residency programs that dramatize
women»s history and address the lack
of opportunities
for women and
artists of color in the performing arts.
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.
Today there's more space
for women to express themselves openly in art, and
for artists of color, too.
The
artist is best known
for her luscious portraits
of black
women posed amongst luxurious floral patterns and printed fabrics, all rendered in vividly
colored rhinestones and paint on panel.
In Conversation I and Conversation II, Mr. Phillips superimposes patterns from
artist Albert Oehlen's series Computer Paintings and bands
of color over photographs
of nude
women that he had photographed in racecars
for a project in Playboy magazine.
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.
Things have improved
for women and
artists of color over the last thirty years, but let's face it, the celebrity - obsessed art market and the galleries and museums that fuel it, really SUCK!
The activism
of artists like Faith Ringgold,
for example, pushed institutional structures like the Whitney Biennial to include
women and people
of color.
Molesworth's departure comes at a weighty time
for museums, which are increasingly scrutinized
for democratic representation
of artists, particularly
women and people
of color, said Nizan Shaked, a professor
of contemporary art history, museum and curatorial studies at Cal State Long Beach.
While there's always room to grow (we'd love to see more
women of color hosting retrospectives around the U.S.,
for example), we're glad the year
of markedly macho
artists like Jeff Koons, Paul McCarthy and James Turrell is over.
I think it's a really interesting time to be a
woman artist and a
woman of color, and what they did was a first step — just
for them to point their fingers at the situation is a revolutionary step.
Lee asked various writers and critics to re-author a page, coincident with the year
of their birth,
of «Art Speak: A Guide to Contemporary Ideas, Movements, and Buzzwords» (1st edition, 1990), the popular art world survey, allowing
for a queering
of perspective on the art world to include
women and
artists of color.
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.
Spring into
color for an evening featuring original artwork by the Fuse Factory
Artists of the Farmington Valley Arts Center along with a beautiful collection
of stylish
women's clothing.
The original show, from a 21st century perspective, can look like a dinosaur, most pointedly
for its complete lack
of women and
artists of color.