Women Painting Women at The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth

Girls Painting Women is a thematic exhibition showcasing 46 woman artists who decide on women as issue subject in their functions. This group demonstrate introduced by The Modern-day 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, main curator.

Intercontinental in scope, Women of all ages Painting Women of all ages recognizes woman views that have been underrepresented in the record of postwar figuration. Painting is the emphasis of the exhibition, as traditionally it has been a privileged medium for portraiture, especially for white male artists. The artists right here use portray and women as subject matter matter as autos for improve and variety from early trailblazers like Alice Neel and Emma Amos to emerging artists these as Jordan Casteel and Apolonia Sokol. I’m satisfied to share that Christiane Lyons beforehand highlighted on the The Curious Frenchy, is among the selected artists!

Some, these types of as Jenny Saville, do the job on significant canvases, developing photographs that dwarf the place around them, though other people, which include Somaya Critchlow, paint on a modest scale that invites near viewing. All put women—their bodies, gestures, and individuality—at the forefront. 

Four themes trend in the works bundled in Gals Portray Girls: The Human body, Character Personified, Coloration as Portrait, and Selfhood. By way of these themes, the artists conceive new approaches to activate and elaborate on the portrayal of ladies. Replete with complexities, realness, abjection, splendor, issues, everydayness, and pleasure, the portraits in this exhibition make way for female artists to share the phase with their male counterparts in defining the impression of female and how it has developed.

Catalogue of the exhibition

artists bundled in the display

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, Religion 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.