Exhibition News: The Women of Abstract American Artists travels to LSU Museum of Art, 2022

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Blurring Boundaries: The Women Of AAA, 1936–present
Curated by Rebecca DiGiovanna
• Clara M. Eagle Gallery, Murray State University, Murray, Kentucky, September 27 – November 1, 2018
• Ewing Gallery, University of Tennessee at Knoxville, Knoxville, Tennessee, November 15 – December 10, 2018
• Warner Gallery, South Bend Museum of Art, South Bend, Indiana, October 17, 2020 – January 3, 2021
• The Baker Museum, Naples, Florida, March 25, 2021 – July 23, 2021
• Freedman Gallery, Albright College, Reading, Pennsylvania, August 31 – December 17, 2021
• Peeler Center, DePauw University, Greencastle, Indiana, February 8 – May 9, 2022
• LSU Museum of Art, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, July 14 – October 23, 2022
• Available, November 2022 – April 2023
• Mattatuck Museum, Waterbury, Connecticut, May 7 – October 10, 2023

Images below are from the Clara M. Eagle Galleries, Murray State University, Murray, KY

At left: works by Claire Seidl and Joanne Mattera. Over the stairs, a work by Judith Murray

left to right: Mary Schiliro, Li Trincere, Alice Adams in foreground,

left to right: Laurie Fendrich, Irene Rousseau

left to right: Laurie Fendrich, Irene Rousseau, Kim Uchiyama

AAA Vice President Emily Berger discussing the show in front of a work by Susan Bonfils. A work by Irene Rice Pereira is to the right.

left to right: Lynn Umlauf, Emily Berger, Karen Schifano

left to right:Raquel Rabinovich, Patricia Zarate, Alice Trumbull Mason

left to right: Alice Trumbull Mason, Sharon Brant, Joanne Freeman

Foreground: installation by Vera Vasek

Foreground: installation by Vera Vasek

left to right: Jeanne Wilkinson, Beatrice Riese

left to right: Gertrude Greene, Gabriele Evertz

left to right: Gertrude Greene, Gabriele Evertz, Jane Logemann

left to right: Susan Smith, Lynne Harlow, Iona Kleinhaut

Lynne Harlow, Sweetheart of the Rodeo, 2016, Vinyl curtain, acrylic paint 6 x 8 x 18’, Site-specific vinyl curtain

Ce Roser, Fanfare, 1986, Oil on linen, 23 3/3” x 36 1/2”

Gail Gregg, Scored, 2012, Encaustic on cardboard 15” x 12”

left to right: Ce Roser, Siri Berg, Anne Russinof

Anne Russinof, Inside Out, 2017, Oil on canvas 20” x 24”

left to right: Ce Roser, Siri Berg, Anne Russinof. Perle Fine

Perle Fine, Arriving, 1952, Oil on canvas 50” x 49 1/2”

left to right: Cecily Kahn, Nancy Manter and Susan Smith

left to right: Rhia Hurt, Cecily Kahn, Nancy Manter, and Susan Smith

left to right: Phillis Ideal, Raquel Rabinovich, Patricia Zarate, Alice Trumbull Mason

Watch the video of Rebecca DiGionanna’s curator’s talk 

For additional images, see Joanne Mattera’s post of a walk-through on her blog.

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PANEL DISCUSSION
Beyond the Gendered Lens; From the AAA Exhibition, Blurring Boundaries, to a larger discussion of Women in Contemporary Art

Tuesday, December 3, 2019,  6 – 8pm
Pen and Brush
29 East 22nd Street
New York, NY, 10010
http://www.penandbrush.org/

PANELISTS:
Virginia Anderson,Curator of American Art and Department Head of American Painting & Sculpture and Decorative Arts at the Baltimore Museum of Art, and curator of By Their Creative Force: American Women Modernists, currently on view at the Baltimore Museum of Art
Emily Berger, Artist and AAA Member
Rebecca DiGiovanna,curator of the traveling exhibition, Blurring Boundaries: The Women of American Abstract Artists, 1936 – present
Creighton Michael, Artist and AAA Member
Nancy Princenthal, author of Agnes Martin: Her Life and Art, and Unspeakable Acts: Women, Art and Sexual Violence in the 1970’s
Karen Wilkin, independent curator and art critic, author of numerous publications on such artists as Katherine Bradford, Stuart Davis, Helen Frankenthaler and Hans Hofmann
MODERATOR:
Joanne Mattera, Artist and AAA Member

See Panelists’ biographies here

See further viewing and reading list from the Panel Discussion here

View the Panel Discussion here on YouTube