«Put another way,» Rachleff said, «this is what New York's downtown art scene looked like at mid-century when women artists and
nonwhite artists were included.»
Not exact matches
In the exhibition catalogue, Tsai describes the
artist's program of righting the absence of
nonwhite faces in art - historical masterpieces as «using the power of images to remedy the historical invisibility of black men and women.»
The
artists range in age from 27 to 62, hail from 12 states in all regions of the U.S., including two
artists from Alaska and one from Hawaii, and eighty percent identify as
nonwhite.