Women Artists
A celebration of all those amazing and often unappreciated women artists out there.
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Photoset reblogged from My Darkened Eyes
Mary Whalley - Ornamental Thoughtfulness
For six weeks, a number of small bronze hands were installed in public places throughout Wellington, New Zealand. Their purpose is to hold offerings which passers-by can take or replace with their own anonymous tokens of generosity or thoughtfulness. The project enacts the idea of ‘idealistic antagonism’ - a term the artist created to describe moments of anonymous kindness or beauty which interrupts the everyday mundane. Video here.
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Marie Watt
BLANKET STORIES: BLANKET STORIES: Cradle (blue), 2011, Cast resin, 16 x 16 x 16 inches -
Photo reblogged from Femalepersuasion.net
Nancy Bowen, Exalt, 2008
glass, wax, mirror, epoxy resin, 50 x 54 x 34 “
To be a Lady: Forty-Five Women in the Arts, on view at Norte Maar and the 1285 Ave of the Americas Art Gallery from Sept. 24, 2012 - Jan 18, 2013. A reception Mon., Sept. 24 from 6-8pm.
Curator Jason Andrew brings together forty-five artists born over the last century who happen to be women. Striking examples by historic protagonists, Alma Thomas, Louise Nevelson, Alice Neel, Lenore Tawney, Louise Bourgeois and Grace Hartigan set the stage for an exhibition designed to challenge and reshape the meaning of the word lady.
For centuries, the word lady has been a nuanced term for women prescribed by social mores. Politeness, good manners, correct attire, and behaving properly shaped what it meant to be a lady. To be considered as such was once the goal of every woman across the economic spectrum. At least, that’s what the men thought.
This exhibit looks excellent.
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Kathy Predergast
A Dream of Discipline, 1989-2006
mattress and chalk, 225 x 135 x 120 cm Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery Collection, Dublin -
Siobhan Hapaska
Safe, 2003
coconut, fiberglass, two pack acrylic paint, edition of 25, 16 x 17 x 21 cm -
Rose Finn-Kelcey
“Sad and Lonely”, 2006
Wood, paint, aluminium, fairground lights.
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Susan Weil
Soft Shadows, 2006, Acrylic on canvas and masonite, 84 x 77 x 22” -
Noriko Ambe
A Piece of Flat Globe Vol. 22, 2010
Cut Yupo
3-1/8 x 6-1/4 x 6-1/4 inches
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