GREAT WOMEN ARTISTS

In her epochal essay “Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?” (1971), feminist art historian Linda Nochlin explained that myriad historical circumstances, principally lack of access to training, exhibitions, commissions and critical forums—not genetics—had limited women’s artistic achievement.

As these circumstances changed rapidly in the period after World War II, so did the relative prominence of women in the ranks of the most progressive and visible artists in the West.

This permanent collection exhibition, organized as a contemporary complement to Hannah Wilke: Gestures, surveys work by some of the most influential artists of the last four decades who drew on the insights of critical feminisms to advance artistic practice, in part by addressing precisely those social, political and economic factors that have supported and continue to support gender-based discrimination.

Among those represented are Jo Baer, Lynda Benglis, Louise Bourgeois, Patty Chang, Chryssa, Patricia Cronin, Agnes Denes, Nancy Graves, Eva Hesse, Deborah Kass, Elizabeth Murray, Catherine Opie, Beverly Pepper, Judy Pfaff, Adrian Piper, Carolee Schneeman, Collier Schorr, Beverly Semmes, Judith Shea, Kiki Smith, Joan Snyder, Jessica Stockholder, Hannah Wilke, among others.

Great Women Artists is on view November 23, 2008- February 22, 2009 and curated by Thom Collins, Director.

GREAT WOMEN ARTISTS:
SELECTIONS FROM THE PERMANENT COLLECTION
Kurator: Thom Collins

Künstler: Jo Baer, Lynda Benglis, Lee Bontecou, Louise Bourgeois, Patty Chang, Chryssa , Patricia Cronin, Agnes Denes, Nancy Graves, Eva Hesse, Deborah Kass, Marisol , Elizabeth Murray, Catherine Opie, Beverly Pepper, Judy Pfaff, Howardena Pindell, Adrian Piper, Niki de Saint Phalle, Carolee Schneemann, Collier Schorr, Beverly Semmes, Judith Shea, Kiki Smith, Joan Snyder, Jessica Stockholder, Hannah Wilke, Daisy Youngblood ...