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Michael Rosenfeld Gallery proudly presents The Time Is Now, a group exhibition featuring thirty-two artists whose work the gallery has consistently championed for three decades through thematic group exhibitions as well as multiple solo shows.

The exhibition, which takes its title from a protest sign captured by Bettmann on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan during the Women鈥檚 Liberation Parade in August 1971, is curated to complement and expand on Making Space: Women Artists & Postwar Abstraction currently on view at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA, New York). The Time Is Now features artists who represent a variety of positions on the spectrum from figural representation to abstraction, including: Magdalena Abakanowicz, Ruth Asawa, Hannelore Baron, Mary Bauermeister, Lee Bontecou, Deborah Butterfield, Barbara Chase-Riboud, Elaine de Kooning, Jay DeFeo, Claire Falkenstein, Gertrude Greene, Nancy Grossman, Grace Hartigan, Lee Krasner, Yayoi Kusama, Lee Lozano, Alice Trumbull Mason, Joan Mitchell, Alice Neel, Louise Nevelson, Agnes Pelton, Florence Miller Pierce, Irene Rice Pereira, Anne Ryan, Betye Saar, Kaye Sage, Janet Sobel, Nancy Spero, Dorothea Tanning, Lenore Tawney, Alma Thomas, Charmion von Wiegand, and Claire Zeisler.

Covering a period from 1937鈥擥ertrude Greene鈥檚 collage (37X1)鈥攖o 1984鈥攚ith works by Jay DeFeo (Untitled (Aoni/Ana)) and Nancy Spero (Untitled)鈥攖he exhibition reveals a rich diversity that implicitly challenges the singularity suggested by the notion of 鈥渨omen鈥檚 art.鈥� Kay Sage鈥檚 hauntingly still The Fourteen Daggers (1942) shares an exhibition space with Lee Lozano鈥檚 dynamic Ram, a large-scale diptych from the artist鈥檚 Verb Paintings series. Both works are characterized by a photographic precision of line, which evokes surreal theatricality in the former and an almost hyper-real, cinematic close up in the latter. The Fourteen Daggers was included in the landmark 1942 First Papers of Surrealism exhibition, organized by Andr茅 Breton and Marcel Duchamp; the largest surrealist exhibition ever held in the United States at the time, First Papers of Surrealism hailed the arrival of surrealist artists who had fled Europe for the United States at the outbreak of World War II, including Sage. Executed between 1964 and 1967, Lozano鈥檚 Verb Paintings feature hard-edged, abstracted extreme close ups of tools and machinery. While their emphasis on the ordinary may evoke her pop art contemporaries, Lozano鈥檚 Verb paintings emphasize the processes of creative and destructive work.

Additional highlights include the floating dynamism of Claire Falkenstein鈥檚 copper-and-enamel Sun (c. 1960) and The Albino (aka All That Rises Must Converge/Black), a monumental 1972 sculpture of black bronze, silk, wool, linen, and synthetic fibers by Barbara Chase-Riboud. In addition to being based on Chase-Riboud鈥檚 poem of the same name, The Albino emerged from the artist鈥檚 experimentation with the three-dimensionality of sculpture. Presented in its horizontal, open form, the sculpture is known as The Albino and is characterized by two impressive wings that spread out from a centralizing body that rests on the floor. In its closed, vertical incarnation, the sculpture forms a tall, totemic pillar and is known as All That Rises Must Converge/Black. Treated as two different sculptures by the art historian Peter Selz, The Albino (aka All That Rises Must Converge/Black) resists a singular reading and instead, opens itself up, quite literally, to multiple readings. Like Chase-Riboud鈥檚 work, Falkenstein鈥檚 鈥渓inear drawing in space鈥濃�攁s she called her wire constructions鈥攊ncorporates exhibition space as a sculptural medium. As Maren Henderson has written, 鈥淚n Sun, slender rods are configured in loops projecting in every direction but secured by skeins of copper wire. The result is a lattice network of baffling complexity. 鈥� the lattice structure is the medium, providing an envelope for space, light, and in this case the color red 鈥� provided by a red object tucked well into the interior.鈥�