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West Coast Women of Abstract Expressionism
Furthering Berry Campbell鈥檚 focus on women artists working in the 1950s, we are pleased to present West Coast Women of Abstract Expressionism, a group exhibition featuring 24 women artists living and working in the San Francisco Bay Area. After World War II, the avant-garde art world shifted from Paris to New York, making the downtown scene in New York the center of the Abstract Expressionist movement. Concurrent with the scene in New York, San Francisco was its parallel on the West Coast as a bohemian enclave. Much like the few recognized women Abstract Expressionists from the East Coast, only a handful of women artists from the West Coast have broken into the larger art world canon, most notably Joan Brown, Jay DeFeo, Deborah Remington, and Sonia Gechtoff. These women are a narrow representation of the robust and diverse community living and working on the West Coast in the 1950s.
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Furthering Berry Campbell鈥檚 focus on women artists working in the 1950s, we are pleased to present West Coast Women of Abstract Expressionism, a group exhibition featuring 24 women artists living and working in the San Francisco Bay Area. After World War II, the avant-garde art world shifted from Paris to New York, making the downtown scene in New York the center of the Abstract Expressionist movement. Concurrent with the scene in New York, San Francisco was its parallel on the West Coast as a bohemian enclave. Much like the few recognized women Abstract Expressionists from the East Coast, only a handful of women artists from the West Coast have broken into the larger art world canon, most notably Joan Brown, Jay DeFeo, Deborah Remington, and Sonia Gechtoff. These women are a narrow representation of the robust and diverse community living and working on the West Coast in the 1950s.
Artists on show
- Adelie L. Bischoff
- Bernice Bing
- Claire Falkenstein
- Deborah Remington
- Dorr Bothwell
- Emiko Nakano
- Frann Spencer Reynolds
- Irene Pattinson
- Jay DeFeo
- Joan Brown
- Katherine Barieau
- Lilly Fenichel
- Margaret Peterson
- Marie Johnson Calloway
- Masako Takahashi
- Nancy Genn
- Nell Sinton
- Pamela Boden
- Ruth Armer
- Ruth Wall
- Sonia Gechtoff
- Sonya Rapoport
- Ynez Johnston
- Zoe Longfield
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