Women Painting Women at The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth

Females Painting Women is a thematic exhibition that includes 46 feminine artists who pick girls as subject issue in their will work. This team present offered by The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth includes approximately 50 evocative portraits that span the late 1960s to the present. The exhibition was curated by Andrea Karnes, main curator.

International in scope, Females Portray Females recognizes woman perspectives that have been underrepresented in the heritage of postwar figuration. Portray is the concentrate of the exhibition, as customarily it has been a privileged medium for portraiture, especially for white male artists. The artists in this article use portray and girls as matter make any difference as automobiles for transform and vary from early trailblazers like Alice Neel and Emma Amos to emerging artists such as Jordan Casteel and Apolonia Sokol. I’m happy to share that Christiane Lyons earlier featured on the The Curious Frenchy, is amongst the chosen artists!

Some, such as Jenny Saville, function on substantial canvases, producing pictures that dwarf the area around them, even though others, together with Somaya Critchlow, paint on a modest scale that invites shut viewing. All area women—their bodies, gestures, and individuality—at the forefront. 

4 themes development in the works incorporated in Gals Portray Women of all ages: The Human body, Character Personified, Coloration as Portrait, and Selfhood. As a result of these themes, the artists conceive new methods to activate and elaborate on the portrayal of gals. Replete with complexities, realness, abjection, attractiveness, difficulties, everydayness, and pleasure, the portraits in this exhibition make way for female artists to share the phase with their male counterparts in defining the picture of female and how it has developed.

Catalogue of the exhibition

artists bundled in the demonstrate

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