On View:  October 27, 2016 – January 7, 2017

Art on Paper: 10 Women Artists

Exhibition Overview

10 Women Artists celebrated the prominence of ten women artists by exhibiting their work on a shared medium, art on paper. This is a medium often thought of as secondary to today’s studio practice. History has shown us that women artists, as well as artists of diverse cultural backgrounds, have often been placed in the margins adjacent to men of European descent. Today, the conversation continues in regards to equality in the arts and everywhere else. What we have learned from going deeper into art history and mining work from these margins is that an uncounted number of women have created work that exemplifies our culture and time in which it outweighs the work of many their male counterparts. Today, we are seeing cultural paradigm shifts, but we are also seeing attitudes from the grizzled past making claims to how things should be and how things once were. We rejoice the artists in Art on Paper: 10 Women Artists by celebrating their work. This group has broken beyond the glass ceiling and blazed trails for many artists working today; male, female, and culturally diverse. Each has contributed to the conversation of art history in a major way and each has a genius to their sensibilities. We were extremely grateful to have these works available to us from the collection of Jordan D. Schnitzer and his Family Foundation. A special thanks to Collection Manager, Catherine Malone, for all of her kind assistance and hard work on this exhibition and to the talented Trinie Dalton for contributing the exhibition essay.

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Artists

Polly Apfelbaum
Jennifer Bartlett
Louise Bourgeois
Ann Hamilton
Louise Nevelson
Judy Pfaff
Kiki Smith
Pat Steir
Sarah Sze
Barbara Takenaga