Making Space: Women Artists and Postwar Abstraction

Exposición / MoMA - Museum of Modern Art / 11 West 53 Street / Nueva York, New York, Estados Unidos
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Cuándo:
15 abr de 2017 - 13 ago de 2017

Inauguración:
15 abr de 2017

Organizada por:
MoMA - Museum of Modern Art

Artistas participantes:
Agnes Martin, Gertrud Goldschmidt - Gego, Lygia Clark, Lygia Pape, Magdalena Abakanowicz, María Freire, Olga Carol Rama - Carol Rama, Sarah Grilo

ENLACES OFICIALES
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Etiquetas
Abstracción geométrica  Abstracción geométrica en New York 

       

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Descripción de la Exposición

Making Space shines a spotlight on the stunning achievements of women artists between the end of World War II (1945) and the start of the Feminist movement (around 1968). In the postwar era, societal shifts made it possible for larger numbers of women to work professionally as artists, yet their work was often dismissed in the male dominated art world, and few support networks existed for them. Abstraction dominated artistic practice during these years, as many artists working in the aftermath of World War II sought an international language that might transcend national and regional narratives—and for women artists, additionally, those relating to gender. Drawn entirely from the Museum’s collection, the exhibition features nearly 100 paintings, sculptures, photographs, drawings, prints, textiles, and ceramics by more than 50 artists. Within a trajectory that is at once loosely chronological and synchronous, it includes works that range from the boldly gestural canvases of Lee Krasner, Helen Frankenthaler, and Joan Mitchell; the radical geometries by Lygia Clark, Lygia Pape, and Gego; and the reductive abstractions of Agnes Martin, Anne Truitt, and Jo Baer; to the fiber weavings of Magdalena Abakanowicz, Sheila Hicks, and Lenore Tawney; and the process-oriented sculptures of Lee Bontecou, Louise Bourgeois, and Eva Hesse. The exhibition will also feature many little-known treasures such as collages by Anne Ryan, photographs by Gertrudes Altschul, and recent acquisitions on view for the first time at MoMA by Ruth Asawa, Carol Rama, and Alma Woodsey Thomas. Organized by Starr Figura, Curator, Department of Drawings and Prints, and Sarah Hermanson Meister, Curator, Department of Photography, with Hillary Reder, Curatorial Assistant, Department of Drawings and Prints.

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