Speakers will reassess the role of
women painters within this movement that has been customarily defined by heroic male painters.
Not exact matches
Artist Statement: «There is a dark place
within where hidden and growing our true spirit rises» Asha Elana Casey,
painter and mixed media artist presents works that explore the tranquility of pattern making, emotionality and spirituality of color, and power of the black
woman form.
«'
Women of Abstract Expressionism», for the first time, positions this expanded group of
painters within the context of abstract expressionism and its cultural milieu,» said Ms. Chanzit, who is also a professor of Museum Studies at the University of Denver, in a release.
«
Women of Abstract Expressionism, for the first time, positions this expanded group of
painters within the context of abstract expressionism and its cultural milieu,» said Gwen Chanzit, curator of modern art at the DAM.
Abstract artists — including
women painters and sculptors whose work had been so influential and notable
within feminist art discourse in the 70s — often felt left out of major exhibitions and texts devoted to
women artists and feminism.