Phillips to Host
NOMEN
A Phillips X Private Selling Exhibition
Showcasing American Women Artists from 1945 to Today
NEW
YORK – 13 JUNE 2019 – Opening June 19 at PHILLIPS New York will be
the exhibition NOMEN: American Women Artists from 1945 to Today, which
was curated by Arnold Lehman, Phillips’ Senior Advisor and Director Emeritus of
the Brooklyn Museum. It is part of Phillips X, the auction house’s private
selling platform. The exhibition will include approximately seventy artists
spanning the past seventy-five years, including Berenice Abbott, Diana
Al-Hadid, Jennifer Bartlett, Lynda Benglis Jenny Holzer, Agnes Martin,
Elizabeth Murray, Louise Nevelson, Howardena Pindell, Susan Rothenberg,
Betye Saar, Laurie Simmons, Kiki Smith, and Hannah Wilke. Paintings,
photographs, and sculpture will offer an overview of the exceptional range and
immense talent of these women artists from WWll to the moment the exhibition
opens with one work completed specifically for the show. The exhibition runs
from June 19 through August 3.
Arnold
Lehman said, “NOMEN will aim to bring attention to the extraordinarily
important role of female artists in the United States as America assumed the
leadership of the art world. Pre-1945 most women artists in America struggled
to assume their rightful place alongside their male counterparts. However, these
determined women artists became increasingly central to the evolution and
success of the American art community, as well as of the modern and
contemporary art community worldwide.”
Miety
Heiden, Phillips’ Head of Private Sales, said, “It is with great pleasure that
Phillips X shines a light on the significant contributions these remarkable
artists have made to the art historical canon. Their groundbreaking work has
made a tremendous impact on the course of 20th century art and we are delighted
that they are being rightly celebrated for their contributions in this
amazingly insightful exhibition.”
The
Guerrilla Girls’ 2012 headliner “Do women have to be naked to get into the
Met. Museum?” still stands as a relative test of female to male
participation in museum permanent collections and temporary exhibitions and in
the representation of women in most galleries nationwide. NOMEN aims to
shift this paradigm, at least temporarily, by specifically excluding works
of art by men. NOMEN as the title states, is an attempt to look at
recent art history - one of the most innovative periods in art in modern times
– only through the exceptional works of art made by these outstanding women.
Indeed, the increasingly significant participation of women artists from 1945
to now has spurred the very creativity, innovation, and embrace of difference
that now defines American art.
Exhibition: 19
June – 3 August [Closed Sundays and 4-7 July]
Location: 450
Park Avenue, New York
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