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Radical Women Latin American Art, 1960鈥�1985
This is the first exhibition to explore the groundbreaking contributions to contemporary art of Latin American and Latina women artists during a period of extraordinary conceptual and aesthetic experimentation. Featuring more than 120 artists from 15 countries, Radical Women: Latin American Art, 1960鈥�1985 focuses on their use of the female body for political and social critique and artistic expression.
The artists pioneer radical forms and explore a female sensibility with overt or, more often, covert links to feminist activism. Many works were realized under harsh political and social conditions, some due to U.S. interventions in Central and South America, that were complicated or compounded by the artists鈥� experiences as women.
The artworks on view range from painting and sculpture to photography, video, performance, and other new mediums. Included are emblematic figures such as Lygia Pape, Ana Mendieta, and Marta Minuj铆n, alongside lesser鈥恔nown names such as Cuban鈥恇orn abstract painter Zilia S谩nchez; Colombian sculptor Feliza Bursztyn; Peruvian composer, choreographer, and activist Victoria Santa Cruz; and Argentine mixed鈥恗edia artist Margarita Paksa. The Brooklyn presentation also includes Nuyorican portraits by photographer Sophie Rivera, as well as work from Chicana graphic arts pioneer Ester Hernandez, Cuban filmmaker Sara Gomez, and Afro-Latina activist and artist Marta Moreno Vega.
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This is the first exhibition to explore the groundbreaking contributions to contemporary art of Latin American and Latina women artists during a period of extraordinary conceptual and aesthetic experimentation. Featuring more than 120 artists from 15 countries, Radical Women: Latin American Art, 1960鈥�1985 focuses on their use of the female body for political and social critique and artistic expression.
The artists pioneer radical forms and explore a female sensibility with overt or, more often, covert links to feminist activism. Many works were realized under harsh political and social conditions, some due to U.S. interventions in Central and South America, that were complicated or compounded by the artists鈥� experiences as women.
The artworks on view range from painting and sculpture to photography, video, performance, and other new mediums. Included are emblematic figures such as Lygia Pape, Ana Mendieta, and Marta Minuj铆n, alongside lesser鈥恔nown names such as Cuban鈥恇orn abstract painter Zilia S谩nchez; Colombian sculptor Feliza Bursztyn; Peruvian composer, choreographer, and activist Victoria Santa Cruz; and Argentine mixed鈥恗edia artist Margarita Paksa. The Brooklyn presentation also includes Nuyorican portraits by photographer Sophie Rivera, as well as work from Chicana graphic arts pioneer Ester Hernandez, Cuban filmmaker Sara Gomez, and Afro-Latina activist and artist Marta Moreno Vega.
Artists on show
- Alicia Barney
- Alicia D'Amico
- Amélia Toledo
- Ana Kamien
- Ana Mendieta
- Ana Victoria Jiménez
- Ana Vitoria Mussi
- Analivia Cordeiro
- Ani Villanueva
- Anna Bella Geiger
- Anna Maria Maiolino
- Antonia Eiriz Vázquez
- Antonieta Sosa
- Barbara Carrasco
- Beatriz González
- Carla Rippey
- Carmela Gross
- Catalina Parra
- Cecilia Vicuña
- Celeida Tostes
- Celia Alvarez Muñoz
- Claudia Andujar
- Clemencia Lucena
- Dalila Puzzovio
- Delfina Bernal
- Delia Cancela
- Diamela Eltit
- Diana Dowek
- Ester Hernandez
- Eugenia Vargas Pereira
- Eugenio López
- Feliza Bursztyn
- Frieda Medín
- Gloria Camiruaga
- Gloria Gómez-Sánchez
- Gracia Barrios
- Graciela Carnevale
- Graciela Gutiérrez
- Graciela Iturbide
- Iole de Freitas
- Isabel Castro
- Janet Toro
- Jesusa Rodríguez
- Johanna Hamann
- Josely Carvalho
- Judy Baca
- Karen Lamassonne
- Kati Horna
- Lea Lublin
- Lenora de Barros
- Leticia Parente
- Liliana Maresca
- Liliana Porter
- Liliane Dardot
- Lotty Rosenfeld
- Lourdes Grobet
- Luz Donoso
- Lygia Clark
- Lygia Pape
- Magali Lara
- Magali Meneses
- Mara Alvares
- Marcia Schvartz
- Márcia X.
- Margarita Azurdia
- Margarita Morselli
- Margarita Paksa
- Margot Romer
- Maria Evelia Marmolejo
- María Luisa Bemberg
- Maria Martinez-Cañas
- María Teresa Cano
- Marie Orensanz
- Marilú Marini
- Maris Bustamante
- Marisol
- Marta María Pérez Bravo
- Marta Minujin
- Marta Moreno Vega
- Marta Palau
- Martha Araújo
- Mercedes Elena Gonzalez
- Mónica Mayer
- Narcisa Hirsch
- Neide Sá
- Nelbia Romero
- Nirma Zárate
- Olga Blinder
- Patricia Restrepo
- Patssi Valdez
- Paz Errázuriz
- Pola Weiss
- Poli Marichal
- Polvo de Gallina Negra
- Regina Silveira
- Regina Vater
- Rosa Navarro
- Roser Bru
- Sandra Eleta
- Sandra Llano-Mejía
- Sara Facio
- Sara Gomez
- Sara Modiano
- Sarah Minter
- Silvia Gruner
- Sonia Gutiérrez
- Sophie Rivera
- Sybil Brintrup Kruger
- Sylvia Palacios Whitman
- Sylvia Salazar Simpson
- Tecla Tofano
- Teresa Burga
- Teresa Trujillo
- Teresinha Soares
- Vera Chaves Barcellos
- Victoria Cabezas
- Victoria Santa Cruz
- Virginia Errázuris
- Wanda Pimentel
- Ximena Cuevas
- Yeni & Nan
- Yolanda Andrade
- Yolanda M. López
- Zilia Sánchez
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