Women Painting Women at The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth

Gals Painting Ladies is a thematic exhibition featuring 46 female artists who choose ladies as issue make any difference in their functions. This group exhibit introduced by The Contemporary Artwork Museum of Fort Worth includes approximately 50 evocative portraits that span the late 1960s to the current. The exhibition was curated by Andrea Karnes, chief curator.

Intercontinental in scope, Women Portray Women recognizes female views that have been underrepresented in the background of postwar figuration. Painting is the aim of the exhibition, as typically it has been a privileged medium for portraiture, particularly for white male artists. The artists here use painting and women as matter make any difference as motor vehicles for improve and selection from early trailblazers like Alice Neel and Emma Amos to rising artists such as Jordan Casteel and Apolonia Sokol. I’m content to share that Christiane Lyons previously highlighted on the The Curious Frenchy, is amid the chosen artists!

Some, these as Jenny Saville, do the job on massive canvases, generating pictures that dwarf the area about them, though other individuals, which includes Somaya Critchlow, paint on a modest scale that invites shut viewing. All spot women—their bodies, gestures, and individuality—at the forefront. 

4 themes craze in the performs provided in Females Portray Women of all ages: The Entire body, Character Personified, Coloration as Portrait, and Selfhood. Through these themes, the artists conceive new techniques to activate and elaborate on the portrayal of girls. Replete with complexities, realness, abjection, beauty, troubles, everydayness, and pleasure, the portraits in this exhibition make way for feminine artists to share the stage with their male counterparts in defining the impression of female and how it has evolved.

Catalogue of the exhibition

artists incorporated in the present

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 well Stevens, Claire Tabouret, Mickalene Thomas, Nicola Tyson, Lisa Yuskavage.