Sentences with phrase «important black women artists»

The appearance of her work along the High Line marks another refreshing development in a career of one of the most important black women artists of the past half century.

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Catherine Morris, Sackler Senior Curator for the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, and co-curator of the Brooklyn presentation, added, «The exhibition is a remarkable scholarly achievement, expanding the canon and complicating known narratives of conceptual art and radical art - making, while building on the legacy of important and ambitious exhibitions at the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, including We Wanted a Revolution: Black Radical Women, 1965 — 85, Materializing «Six Years»: Lucy R. Lippard and the Emergence of Conceptual Art, and Seductive Subversion: Women Pop Artists, 1958 — 1968.»

Among these are the artist's most famous, landmark paintings — among them Pink Angels (1945), Excavation (1950), and the celebrated third Woman series (1950 — 53)-- plus in - depth presentations of all his most important series, ranging from his figurative paintings of the early 1940s to the breakthrough black - and - white compositions of 1948 — 49, and from the urban abstractions of the mid 1950s to the artist's return to figuration in the 1960s, and the large gestural abstractions of the following decade.

Black women have served in important posts as directors of the Studio Museum in Harlem, National Museum of African Art, and museums at Historically Black Colleges and Universities, all institutions that focus on art by African American and African diaspora artists.