Women Painting Women at The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth

Women of all ages Portray Girls is a thematic exhibition featuring 46 woman artists who pick women of all ages as issue make a difference in their works. This group exhibit offered by The Modern Artwork 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.

Global in scope, Females Portray Ladies recognizes feminine views that have been underrepresented in the record of postwar figuration. Painting is the focus of the exhibition, as usually it has been a privileged medium for portraiture, particularly for white male artists. The artists in this article use painting and women as matter make any difference as motor vehicles for change and range from early trailblazers like Alice Neel and Emma Amos to emerging artists these as Jordan Casteel and Apolonia Sokol. I’m happy to share that Christiane Lyons previously showcased on the The Curious Frenchy, is amid the selected artists!

Some, these types of as Jenny Saville, get the job done on substantial canvases, creating pictures that dwarf the place all-around them, when some others, which include Somaya Critchlow, paint on a modest scale that invites close viewing. All put women—their bodies, gestures, and individuality—at the forefront. 

4 themes trend in the operates provided in Girls Painting Women: The Entire body, Mother nature Personified, Colour as Portrait, and Selfhood. By way of these themes, the artists conceive new means to activate and elaborate on the portrayal of women. Replete with complexities, realness, abjection, attractiveness, problems, everydayness, and pleasure, the portraits in this exhibition make way for female artists to share the stage with their male counterparts in defining the graphic of woman and how it has advanced.

Catalogue of the exhibition

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