Women Painting Women at The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth

Women of all ages Painting Females is a thematic exhibition that includes 46 female artists who decide on women of all ages as matter issue in their operates. This team display offered by The Present day Artwork Museum of Fort Worth includes close to 50 evocative portraits that span the late 1960s to the present. The exhibition was curated by Andrea Karnes, chief curator.

International in scope, Females Painting Women recognizes feminine views that have been underrepresented in the background of postwar figuration. Portray is the focus of the exhibition, as traditionally it has been a privileged medium for portraiture, specifically for white male artists. The artists in this article use portray and females as subject issue as automobiles for transform and assortment from early trailblazers like Alice Neel and Emma Amos to rising artists this sort of as Jordan Casteel and Apolonia Sokol. I’m content to share that Christiane Lyons beforehand featured on the The Curious Frenchy, is amid the selected artists!

Some, these types of as Jenny Saville, get the job done on big canvases, creating photographs that dwarf the house all-around them, though some others, which include Somaya Critchlow, paint on a modest scale that invitations near viewing. All spot women—their bodies, gestures, and individuality—at the forefront. 

Four themes pattern in the functions incorporated in Girls Painting Gals: The Entire body, Mother nature Personified, Shade as Portrait, and Selfhood. By these themes, the artists conceive new ways to activate and elaborate on the portrayal of females. Replete with complexities, realness, abjection, splendor, problems, everydayness, and joy, the portraits in this exhibition make way for woman artists to share the stage with their male counterparts in defining the impression of girl and how it has evolved.

Catalogue of the exhibition

artists incorporated in the exhibit

Rita Ackermann, Njideka Akunyili Crosby, Emma Amos, María Berrío, Louise Bonnet, Lisa Brice, Joan Brown, Jordan Casteel, Somaya Critchlow, Kim Dingle, Marlene Dumas, Celeste Dupuy-Spencer, Nicole Eisenman, Tracey Emin, Natalie Frank,Hope Gangloff, Eunice Golden, Jenna Gribbon, Alex Heilbron, Ania Hobson, Luchita Hurtado, Chantal Joffe, Hayv Kahraman, Maria Lassnig, Christiane Lyons, Danielle Mckinney, Marilyn Minter, Alice Neel, Elizabeth Peyton, Paula Rego, Faith Ringgold, Deborah Roberts, Susan Rothenberg, Jenny Saville, Dana Schutz, Joan Semmel, Amy Sherald, Lorna Simpson, Arpita Singh, Sylvia Sleigh, Apolonia Sokol, May possibly Stevens, Claire Tabouret, Mickalene Thomas, Nicola Tyson, Lisa Yuskavage.