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"Pictures Girls Make": Portraitures
Blum & Poe is pleased to present 鈥淧ictures Girls Make鈥�: Portraitures, an exhibition bringing together over fifty artists from around the world, spanning the early nineteenth century until today. Curated by Alison M. Gingeras, this prodigious survey argues that this age-old mode of representation is an enduringly democratic, humanistic genre.
鈥淧ictures girls make鈥� is a quip attributed to Willem de Kooning who purportedly dismissed the inferior status of his wife Elaine鈥檚 portrait practice. Inverting the original dismissal into an affirmation, 鈥淧ictures Girls Make鈥� is a rallying cry for this exhibition which examines how different forms of portraitures defy old aesthetic, social, and ideological norms.
Both historically and contemporarily speaking, the portrait has always been far more than a rendering of a specific person鈥檚 likeness. Portraiture engages with ideas of identity, subjectivity, and agency. Moving beyond binary thinking, the exhibition strives to emphasize the diversity of subjects, complexities of biography, and array of individual characters that artists have been able to capture through various modes of portrait making.
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Blum & Poe is pleased to present 鈥淧ictures Girls Make鈥�: Portraitures, an exhibition bringing together over fifty artists from around the world, spanning the early nineteenth century until today. Curated by Alison M. Gingeras, this prodigious survey argues that this age-old mode of representation is an enduringly democratic, humanistic genre.
鈥淧ictures girls make鈥� is a quip attributed to Willem de Kooning who purportedly dismissed the inferior status of his wife Elaine鈥檚 portrait practice. Inverting the original dismissal into an affirmation, 鈥淧ictures Girls Make鈥� is a rallying cry for this exhibition which examines how different forms of portraitures defy old aesthetic, social, and ideological norms.
Both historically and contemporarily speaking, the portrait has always been far more than a rendering of a specific person鈥檚 likeness. Portraiture engages with ideas of identity, subjectivity, and agency. Moving beyond binary thinking, the exhibition strives to emphasize the diversity of subjects, complexities of biography, and array of individual characters that artists have been able to capture through various modes of portrait making.
Artists on show
- Agata S艂owak
- Aleksandra Waliszewska
- Alice Neel
- Ambera Wellmann
- Andrew LaMar Hopkins
- Asuka Anastacia Ogawa
- Beauford Delaney
- Benny Andrews
- Chidinma Nnoli
- Chris Oh
- Cielo Felix-Hernandez
- Clarity Haynes
- Collin Sekajugo
- Devin Troy Strother
- Elaine de Kooning
- Elisabetta Zangrandi
- Ernie Barnes
- Fairfield Porter
- Frohawk Two Feathers
- Gertrude Abercrombie
- Gladys Nilsson
- Hadi Fallahpisheh
- Jane Freilicher
- Jerome Caja
- Jill Mulleady
- Jonathan Lyndon Chase
- Juanita Guccione
- June Leaf
- Karolina Jab艂o艅ska
- Katja Seib
- Larry Rivers
- Leonard Tsuguharu Foujita
- Leonor Fini
- March Avery
- Maria Anto
- Maria-Mela Muter
- Mark Grotjahn
- Martha Edelheit
- Mimi Gross Grooms
- Patrick Eugène
- Robert Colescott
- Robin F. Williams
- Rosalind Letcher
- Rudolf Maeglin
- Sally J. Han
- Sam McKinniss
- Simphiwe Ndzube
- Somaya Critchlow
- Sylvia Sleigh
- William Nelson Copley
- Winfred Rembert
- Xinyi Cheng
- Yannis Tsarouchis
- Yu Nishimura
- Zoya Charkassky-Nnadi
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