Sentences with phrase «important women artists»

I had not been exposed to Joan Snyder or Louise Fishman or any of the other important women artists who had long before begun this process in contemporary American art.

For biographies of other important women artists active in the 20th century, not cited above, please see the following:

One of the most important women artists to emerge in the last 30 years, Helen Chadwick stands at the intersection of conceptual - performative art and feminist thinking.

As far as important women artists go (and this is far from a definitive list) I can think of several names right off the top of my head — Louse Bourgeois, Krasner, Agnes Martin, Lee Bontocou, Grace Hartigan (for a decade or two), Judy Chicago, Katherine Sherwood, Nancy Spero, Kiki Smith, Ida Applebroog, Paula Rego.

It addresses the gender imbalance in the presentation of art by bringing to light important women artists of the past and promoting great women artists working today.

Today is the triggering event to make a flashback to the most important women artists that marked with their personality and work the contemporary art.

Founded originally in 1976 as Young Hoffman, the gallery helped launch the careers of important women artists like Barbara Kruger, Jenny Holzer, and Cindy Sherman.

An diverse exhibition of select works by important women artists from the inventory of Alpha 137 Gallery.

Crosby's work joins the Norton Museum's string of recent acquisitions of works by important women artists, including Marguerite Thompson Zorach, and Grace Hartigan.

The addition of a large - scale sculpture from this period by Nancy Graves, one of the leading artists of her generation, introduces an important woman artist to the ICA / Boston's collection and marks a major contribution to the museum's holdings of sculptures by such artists as Louise Bourgeois, Tara Donovan, Rachel Harrison, and Keith Sonnier.

Bridget Riley is generally considered to be the most important woman artist living in Britain.

From 2 October 2014 until 11 January 2015 the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt presents the bold pictorial world of Helene Schjerfbeck, Finnish Modernism's most important woman artist.

18.09.2014 The Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt presents from October 2, 2014 until January 11, 2015, a comprehensive solo exhibition on Finnish Modernism's most important woman artist: Helene Schjerfbeck (1862 — 1946).

Not exact matches

Kenneth explains in his quotes the characteristic way of Color Field painting art style which started with their important visit to the studio of the woman - artist Helen Frankenthaler.

One of its most important exhibits, «An Imperial Collection: Women Artists from the State Hermitage Museum,» not only displayed those paintings, but also probably saved them.

When Miss Nochlin says, «What is important is that women face up to the reality of their history,» well, the point is, artists are always choosing their history from day to day and their history follows them as much as it precedes them.

Five of the artists in «Queer Fantasy» are women, which Simmons says is important because he wants this history to be «supplemented by these voices that haven't really been heard so far.»

«Jettisoning the silence that has been imposed on women of all races and religions and classes and sexual orientations is important for all of these artists,» said Deborah Frizzell, an independent curator who organized the exhibition with guest curator Harry J. Weil, and Wave Hill's senior curator Jennifer McGregor and curator of visual arts Gabriel de Guzman.

EXHIBITION Drawing attention to the personal and artistic connections of two important African American women artists, «The Art of Elizabeth Catlett: Selections from the Collection of Samella Lewis» at Museum of the African Diaspora in San Francisco opens on Jan. 16.

Tompkins was an important figure in the photorealist movement of the 1970's but largely overlooked due to the fact that she was a woman making large - scale paintings of heterosexual intercourse, imagery that until then had been reserved for male artists and viewers.

The Accola Griefen Gallery located at Booth 200 will build on their ongoing program, and highlight important American and Native American women artists — Gina Adams, Nancy Cohen, Judy Pfaff and Marie Watt.

WHO: Pratt Institute's Department of History of Art and Design and Department of Fine Arts will present a film titled a woman like that, which explores the dramatic life and work of 17th Century female artist Artemisia Gentileschi, who is considered one of the most important female artists in history.

This book is a critical yet intimate look at the lives and work of nine noted American women artists who have been personally important to Sirlin, based on a series of conversations with each one over the course of two years.

Fisher Sterling believes that taking a strong position and actively reinserting women into the history of art is especially important for the future status of female artists.

And they were both important figures in the woman - artist movement.

Not only does Nebulous join these important works, but it also significantly complements the holdings of major sculptures by generations of women artists, including Louise Bourgeois and Cornelia Parker.

Now that much has changed for women artists, it is perhaps important to review a moment when women felt the need to confront particularly iconic male artists — «feminina a mano,» that is to say, combat with a woman's touch.

LYNN HERSHMAN LEESON: Well, I did this film called Strange Culture [2007] that helped to get the charges dropped against an artist, [Steve Kurtz, who was detained by the FBI on suspicion of bioterrorism,] and then I did Woman Art Revolution [2010], which inserted a history [of women in art] that had been denied our culture, and I thought those were really important things to add.

I was fascinated, also, by Women of Venice in the Swiss Pavilion, a display of art by Carol Bove, and the collaborative duo Alexander Birchler and Teresa Hubbard, which turns on a historical consideration of the important Swiss artist, Alberto Giacometti.

Known for posed photographs that explore and question representations of women from Renaissance portraiture to contemporary mass media, Cindy Sherman is one of the most important artists working today.

The beautiful group of works by Matisse is complemented by other important paintings, drawings and sculpture from the Cone Collection, including a haunting Blue Period painting by Picasso titled Woman with Bangs, along with a selection of drawings from 1906, a pivotal moment in the artist's career.

In addition to paintings, drawings, and mixed - media works by acclaimed artists such as Thornton Dial, Lonnie Holley, and Nellie Mae Rowe, the major gift included 20 important quilts dating from the 1930s to 2003 that were created by women artists based in the area around Gee's Bend, Alabama.

This new volume in the MoMA artist series examines ten of de Kooning's most memorable achievements as seen in pieces from The Museum's substantial collection of his work, including paintings and drawings from his Woman series and other important works produced throughout his career.

Figurative painter Natalie Frank discusses the prize and says, «Establishing new names, new routes, new protections [for women artists] feels more important than ever.»

The artist says, «I was moved to witness, especially during these times, a growing movement embracing women from different ends of the political map and diverse parts of society, who believe that beyond the existing gaps and controversies it is important to sustain a dialogue of honor and friendship, and that it is possible to find a way to live in peace one next to the

It sheds light on key topics in these artists» works, but also the specific history of the gallery and its connection to these important female figures of an art that subtly addresses women's roles in very different ways...

Self - Portrait with Esme contributes to the ICA / Boston's strong collection of portraits of women by women, including important examples by Marlene Dumas, Alice Neel, Dana Schutz, and Lisa Yuskavage, and extends an inquiry into the subjectivity of identity by artists such as LaToya Ruby Frazier and Cindy Sherman.

I felt it was important for the exhibit to reflect how women are feeling right now, and to have artists from all over the country with diverse backgrounds represented in the show.

This year, the annual event celebrated 31 women artists from around the world who have transformed public perceptions of contemporary art and expanded cultural dialogue around the most important current issues.

Rona Pondick was among an important new generation of women artists including Kiki Smith, Sarah Lucas and Jeanne Silverthorne, whose works featured daring materials and references to the body.

Rail: Your monograph Eva Hesse (1976) was important also because it was the first major work you did on a woman artist, right?

Even though Feminist Art is not exclusively made by women or for women, the pillars of the movement are set by the group by women artists that — each in her own context — push the limits and deal with important topics within arts.

PAFA has also successfully attracted a number of important gifts that further support the Collecting Plan, most notably the remarkable recent gift from Linda Lee Alter of 400 works by such women artists as Alice Neel, Louise Bourgeois, Louise Nevelson, Faith Ringgold, and Miriam Schapiro.

As a female painter, Glasgow - based Lucy McKenzie believes it is important that she and other women artists «don't just play by the rules.»

The strategies and perspectives of women artists today — and, presumably, of women today — are here considered through a selection of works by an important group of contemporary (mostly) women artists: Matthew Barney, Rineke Dijkstra, Tracey Emin, Mona Hatoum, Jonathan Horowitz, Sarah Jones, Mike Kelley, Karen Kilimnik, Sarah Lucas, Tracey Moffat, Cady Noland, Catherine Opie, Pipilotti Rist, Daniela Rossell, Cindy Sherman, Ann - Sofi Sidén, Sam Taylor - Wood, Gillian Wearing, Sue Williams and Andrea Zittel.

10 am Panel Discussion: The Important of Women Artists in Today's Market Panelists include Jorge Daniel Veneciano of El Museo del Barrio, Elizabeth Smith of the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, Alice Gray Stites of 21c Museum Hotels, Francie Bishop Good of Girls» Club and Karen Jenkins - Johnson of Jenkins Johnson Gallery.

But a solo exhibition of Mann's work, titled Sally Mann: A Thousand Crossings, which opens at the National Gallery of Art (NGA) in Washington, D.C. March 4, considers her legacy not as a Southerner, or a Virginian, or even as a woman - artist, but as an internationally - important photographer who has worked tirelessly on her craft since 1969.

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.»

Additionally, you intentionally work with women of all body types and skin complexions; can you talk a bit about why this important to you as an artist, as a woman?

Wilke was one of the very first artists to confront female sexual agency, fulfilment and frustration, and certainly foreshadowed the dynamic confluence of Conceptualism and Feminism that has characterised much important art by women since the 1970s.