«I was just finding a lot of
younger women artists working with the cube, the grid, the serial nature of minimalism, the relationship to architecture, and they were projecting their own subjectivity into it through narrative or their history or gender,» says Battista, who gathered the work of seven artists mining this territory for «Escape Attempts», the inaugural show at Shulamit Nazarian's soaring new 3,000 sq ft gallery in Hollywood.
Looking at the work of
younger women artists today, we find glimpses of naked body parts and even genitalia in Cecily Brown's sexy abstractions, for example, but her imagery is more about hide - and - seek amid gorgeous brushwork than putting the male body center stage.
Then the opening of the Sackler Center of Feminist Art at the Brooklyn Museum, which unveiled the new permanent home of Judy Chicago's «Dinner Party» and opened with the show «Global Feminisms,» featuring
younger women artists from around the world.
Now, Deitch has included a number of
younger women artists whose careers have emerged since the last show, like Jamian Juliano - Villani and Chloe Wise.
Minter also knows a lot
more young women artists simply because she goes to them and tells them how great she thinks they are.
Ebony G. Patterson says, «Being an artist is not a sprint, it's a marathon» while Marilyn Minter
encourages young women artists to «Go with your gut, even if it goes against all rational thinking.»
11 In other words, conversing, in an egalitarian way, with historically overlooked women artists may
offer young women artists valuable tools for understanding and navigating today.
Her recent exhibition «Best Regards form the Blind Spot,» focused on videos by Marina Abramovic, and
younger women artists from the region of Serbia and Montenegro.
In her paintings Elena Sisto uses the structuring ideas of abstraction to mine content that relates to her interest in how people define their own identity and present themselves.nSisto's current work centers around the artist's experience of being in the studio, and the passage into adulthood
of young women artists.
A distinguished male obstetrician and
a young woman artist meet in a hospital, but they have very different ideas about body parts, birth, and death.
Marilyn Minter, an artist a decade younger who explores sex and desire in her own work, said Ms. Schneemann's early performances «were the first time I'd ever seen
a young woman artist using sexuality and making a picture of what it looks like.»
I think PAFA is well aware of the message that they are sending to
their young women artists.
Miralles, a vital contributor to feminist art practices in the 1970s, reminds us that although Beuys supported women's liberation, his female contemporaries did not always receive him well, and that
younger women artists have drawn from his practice in highly selective ways.
Renee Gallery in association with FNF Entertainment opens its summer schedule with a show devoted to
young women artists.
Renee Gallery June 12 - July 3, 2009 Opening reception: Friday June 12, 2009, 6:00 pm Renee Gallery in association with FNF Entertainment opens its summer schedule with a show devoted to
young women artists.
With Leslie Labowitz - Starus, she created «The Performing Archive» at 18th Street, which traveled to the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco and the Haus der Kunst in Berlin, and which she describes as «an important exchange» in which «
young women artists... encounter an extensive paper and image archive of feminist performance art.»
Suddenly these jobs were open to them and
younger women artists could show in galleries.
For the last three years, Elena Sisto's paintings have explored the formative years of
young women artists.