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Blurring Boundaries: The Women of American Abstract Artists, 1936 鈥� Present
An awe-inspiring celebration of an intergenerational group of artists鈥攐ne that is both comprehensive and long overdue鈥擝lurring Boundaries: The Women of American Abstract Artists, 1936 鈥� Present highlights the indelible ways in which the women of American Abstract Artists have, for more than eighty years, shifted and shaped the frontiers of American abstraction.
The hierarchy of distilled form, immaculate line, and pure color came close to being the mantra of 1930s modern art鈥攑articularly that of American Abstract Artists (AAA), the subject of a new exhibition entitled Blurring Boundaries: The Women of American Abstract Artists, 1936 鈥� Present. From the outset鈥攄ue as much to their divergent status as abstract artists as to their gender鈥攚omen of American Abstract Artists were already working on the periphery of the art world. In contrast to the other abstract artist collectives of the period, where equal footing for women was unusual, AAA provided a place of refuge for female artists. Through fifty-six works, Blurring Boundaries explores the artists鈥� astounding range of styles, including their individual approaches to the guiding principles of abstraction: color, space, light, material, and process.
More than eighty years after its founding, AAA continues to nurture and support a vibrant community of artists with diverse identities and wide-ranging approaches to abstraction. In celebration of this tradition, Blurring Boundaries: The Women of American Abstract Artists traces the extraordinary contributions of the female artists within AAA, from the founders to today鈥檚 practicing members. Included are works by historic members Perle Fine, Esphyr Slobodkina, Irene Rice Pereira, Alice Trumbull Mason, and Gertrude Greene, as well as current members such as Ce Roser, Irene Rousseau, Judith Murray, Alice Adams, Merrill Wagner, Katinka Mann, and Louisiana-based artist Susan Bonfils.
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An awe-inspiring celebration of an intergenerational group of artists鈥攐ne that is both comprehensive and long overdue鈥擝lurring Boundaries: The Women of American Abstract Artists, 1936 鈥� Present highlights the indelible ways in which the women of American Abstract Artists have, for more than eighty years, shifted and shaped the frontiers of American abstraction.
The hierarchy of distilled form, immaculate line, and pure color came close to being the mantra of 1930s modern art鈥攑articularly that of American Abstract Artists (AAA), the subject of a new exhibition entitled Blurring Boundaries: The Women of American Abstract Artists, 1936 鈥� Present. From the outset鈥攄ue as much to their divergent status as abstract artists as to their gender鈥攚omen of American Abstract Artists were already working on the periphery of the art world. In contrast to the other abstract artist collectives of the period, where equal footing for women was unusual, AAA provided a place of refuge for female artists. Through fifty-six works, Blurring Boundaries explores the artists鈥� astounding range of styles, including their individual approaches to the guiding principles of abstraction: color, space, light, material, and process.
More than eighty years after its founding, AAA continues to nurture and support a vibrant community of artists with diverse identities and wide-ranging approaches to abstraction. In celebration of this tradition, Blurring Boundaries: The Women of American Abstract Artists traces the extraordinary contributions of the female artists within AAA, from the founders to today鈥檚 practicing members. Included are works by historic members Perle Fine, Esphyr Slobodkina, Irene Rice Pereira, Alice Trumbull Mason, and Gertrude Greene, as well as current members such as Ce Roser, Irene Rousseau, Judith Murray, Alice Adams, Merrill Wagner, Katinka Mann, and Louisiana-based artist Susan Bonfils.
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