Tag: Exhibition Tour

New York, NY | “Gego: Measuring Infinity” at The Guggenheim

April 26, 2023 | 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm

Image credit: Gego Installing Reticulárea, Museo de Bellas Artes de Caraca-1969. Photo Juan Santana ©Fundación Gego

Join us at the Guggenheim as curator Andrea Zambrano walks us through a retrospective of one of the great pioneering Venezuelan artists, Gego—or Gertrud Goldschmidt (b. 1912, Hamburg; d. 1994, Caracas). Gego’s two-and-three dimensional works across many media explored the relationship between line, space, and volume. Her practice is grounded in the intersections of geometric abstraction, Kinetic art, Minimalism, and Post-Minimalism. Trained as an architect (b. 1912 Hamburg; d. 1994 Caracas), known for her organic forms, linear structures, and spatial investigations, this exhibition will establish her legacy in the Americas.

Andrea Zambrano is an emerging curator and art historian whose primary research interests are in modern and contemporary Latin American art. In 2021 she joined the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, serving as the curatorial assistant on Alex Katz: Gathering (2021). Currently, Andrea is on the curatorial team of Gego: Measuring Infinity, working alongside exhibition curators Geaninne Gutiérrez-Guimarães and Pablo Leon de la Barra. For the 2nd group tour, there will be a specialist in the Department of Education.

Special thanks to Julia P. Herzberg, Ph.D, Regan Larroque, and Leah Heister Burton for this event.

COVID-19 vaccination and mask-wearing are no longer required but are strongly recommended. We encourage all visitors to wear masks that cover their nose and mouth throughout their visit.

To request accommodation due to a medical condition or disability, please contact [email protected] prior to your visit. The tour will be a walk through on the five floors. It will last an hour.

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About the Curator

Andrea Zambrano. Photo by Nina Godridge ©

Andrea Zambrano is an emerging curator and art historian whose primary research interests are in modern and contemporary Latin American art. In 2021 she joined the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, serving as the curatorial assistant on Alex Katz: Gathering (2021). Currently, Andrea is on the curatorial team of Gego: Measuring Infinity, working alongside exhibition curators Geaninne Gutiérrez-Guimarães and Pablo Leon de la Barra. For the 2nd group tour, there will be a specialist in the Department of Education.

Images: Gego Installing Reticulárea, Museo de Bellas Artes de Caraca-1969. Photo Juan Santana ©Fundación Gego. Andrea Zambrano, Nina Godridge ©

The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

1071 5th Ave
New York, New York 10128 + Google Map

*FULL* New York, NY | Dia Chelsea Chryssa Exhibition Tour with Megan Holly Witko

March 30, 2023 | 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm

Chryssa Gates to Times Square Bill Jacobson

Join us for a tour of Chryssa & New York at Dia Chelsea led by exhibition curator Megan Holly Witko. Co-organized by Dia Art Foundation and the Menil Collection, Chryssa & New York is the first comprehensive survey of works by Greek-born artist Chryssa (1933–2013) to take place in North America since 1982. A leading figure of the New York art world in the 1950s and ’60s, Chryssa developed an innovative approach to activating sculptural surfaces through subtle manipulations of light and shadow. Pathbreaking in its use of signage, text, and neon, her vastly under-recognized body of work bridges Pop, Conceptual, and Minimalist ideas of art making. This exhibition focuses on works from these decades through to the early 1970s, bringing together Chryssa’s deeply formal concerns and critical interest in exploring the United States following World War II.

DIA Chelsea 537 W 22nd St, New York, NY 10011

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About the Participants
Megan Holly Witko

Megan Holly Witko is external curator at Dia Art Foundation and currently working on an exhibition of the artist Chryssa (1933 – 2013). She recently organized presentations of works by Marian Zazeela at Dia:Beacon, as well as Keith Sonnier and Jacqueline Humphries at the Dan Flavin Art Institute in Bridgehampton, NY. She was assistant curator of François Morellet at Dia:Chelsea in New York (2017–18), as well as Robert Ryman (2015-16), and La Monte Young, Marian Zazeela and Jung Hee Choi’s Dia 15 VI 13 545 West 22 Street Dream House (2015). She joined Dia Art Foundation in 2012.

 

Featured Image: Chryssa, The Gates to Times Square, 1964–66. © Εstate of Chryssa, National Museum of Contemporary Art Athens. Image courtesy Buffalo AKG Art Museum. Photo: Bill Jacobson Studio, New York.

Dia Chelsea

537 W 22nd St
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Washington, DC | INTERLUDE : A Collaboration Between the Kreeger Museum and STABLE Arts

March 11, 2023 | 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm

We are thrilled to announce a noteworthy event, INTERLUDE – a collaboration between the Kreeger Museum and STABLE Arts, which showcases the works of fifteen regional artists. 

Helen Chason, Director of the Kreeger Museum, will begin by extending a warm welcome to our guests.

Maleke Glee, Director of STABLE Arts, will provide an introduction to the exhibition. Additionally, three artists-Gail Shaw-Clemons, K. Lorraine Graham, and Katherine Tzu-Lan Mann-will share their perspectives on their work.

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Kreeger Museum 2401 Foxhall Rd. NW, Washington, DC 20007

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About the Participants

Helen Chason was named Director of The Kreeger Museum June 1, 2017.  Embracing the Museum’s mission to share art and music, Chason has prioritized programming that reaches across the city and celebrates the wealth of artistic talent in our community. Under her leadership the Museum has developed Jazz at the Kreeger, a series that spotlights area musicians, created The Collaborative, an exhibition program that supports visual and performing artists working in Washington DC, and expanded innovative and inclusive family program offerings. In addition to presenting group exhibitions in 2020 and 2021, the Museum presented two exhibitions in 2022 for legendary printmaker, Lou Stovall, illustrating and acknowledging Stovall’s profound and far-reaching influence on the Washington arts community and city. Chason holds an Ed.M. from Harvard University and has lived in Washington, DC since 1980.

 

K. Lorraine Graham writes poems and texts that occasionally manifest as drawings, games and performances. She is the author of The Rest is Censored (Bloof Books), Terminal Humming (Edge Books) and numerous zines, including Semiotic Squares (Primary Writing), a book of drawings, and My Little Neoliberal Pony (Insert Blanc Press). Graham earned an M.F.A. from the University of California, San Diego is an artist at STABLE Arts in Washington, D.C., where she also lives.

 
 
 

Gail Shaw-Clemons, born in Washington, DC, received her Masters’ Degree in printmaking from the University of Maryland. She is a printmaker, mixed media, and art activist. She has exhibited extensively, with many works included in public and private collections in the USA, Brazil, Norway, Sweden, China and the Republic of Ireland. Her work is also in the collection of the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Library of Congress, and the Banneker-Douglass Museum. Shaw-Clemons has a studio at Stable Art and prints at the Bob Blackburn Printmaking Studio in New York as well as the Pyramid Printmaking Studio in Hyattsville MD. Recently retired as an art instructor from the United Nations International School in New York, She is currently an adjunct professor at Bowie State University in Maryland.

 

Katherine Tzu-Lan Mann creates large scale paintings and paper installations that examine mythology, identity, and landscape. She is the recipient of the Sustainable Arts Foundation grant, a Fulbright grant, the AIR Gallery and Lower East Side Printshop Keyholder Fellowships, and the Mayor’s Award and Hamiltonian Fellowship in Washington, DC. Some of the venues where Mann has shown her work include the Kreeger Museum, Academy Art Museum, Walters Art Museum, American University Museum, Tides Museum, Corcoran Gallery of Art, RawlsMuseum, the US consulate in Dubai, UAE, and the US embassy in Yaounde, Cameroon.

Images: Left: Matthew Mann, Moonlight Sinew, 2022, oil, acrylic, and collage on canvas, Courtesy ofthe artist. Right: David Urban, Band of Hope, 1996, oil on canvas, Gift from the Trustees of the Corcoran Gallery of Art., I Hold You Close. Image courtesy of Culture House.

Kreeger Museum

2401 Foxhall Rd. NW
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Washington, DC | Private Tour – A SKY SHATTERED GLASS REFLECTED BY THE SHINING SUN at Culture House

March 4, 2023 | 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm

Please join us for a private tour of the exhibition, A SKY SHATTERED GLASS REFLECTED BY THE SHINING SUN, on view at Culture House, with opening remarks by Cicie Sattarnilasskorn, Culture House’s Gallery Director and a private artist-led tour of the exhibition with Stephanie Mercedes. 

The materials employed in the exhibition are both profound and striking, ranging from melted bullets and destroyed weapons to soap, wax, and seeds. The exhibition features a series of installations that explore vulnerability in the context of the queer body, however, rather than portraying vulnerability as a weakness, the works presented in this exhibition encourage the viewer to consider vulnerability as a powerful weapon.

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Culture House 700 Delaware Ave SW, Washington, DC 20024

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About the Curator

Stephanie Mercedes has exhibited and performed at the Bronx Museum, the Queens Museum, the Smithsonian Institution, the Kennedy Center, and the National Gallery of Art. She has been funded by George Soro’s Open Society Foundation, Light Works, NALAC, The Foundation for Contemporary Art, WPA, The DC Commission for the Arts, the GLB Memorial Foundation, the Warhol Foundation, and the Clarvit Fellowship.

She has also been an artist in residence at VisArts, Halcyon Art Labs, the Bronx Museum, Montgomery College, Christopher Newport University, SOMA, Lugar a Dudas, Largo das Artes and La Ira de Dios. Mercedes is producing an Opera with CulturalDC in 2022-23.

Image: Stephanie Mercedes, I Hold You Close. Image courtesy of Culture House.

Culture House

700 Delaware Ave SW
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Dallas, TX | DFW Social at Cris Worley Fine Arts

February 28, 2023 | 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm

Remarks at 6:15 pm

Installation view of Josephine Durkin’s exhibition Funeral Flowers at Cris Worley Gallery, Dallas, TX

Join us for our inaugural DFW Social on Tuesday, February 28. We would like to toast to our members and ArtTable DFW Chapter’s first year.  It will be an evening to mingle and welcome new friends. 

Admission:

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Thank you to Cris Worley of Cris Worley Fine Arts for hosting the event, to Jennifer Klos, Art Advisor and Founder, Collector House Design, Inc. for organizing this program and to Sotheby’s, Dallas for providing the refreshments.

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Cris Worley Fine Arts

1845 E Levee St #110
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Palm Springs, CA | Tour & Reception at Intersect Palm Springs

February 11, 2023 | 11:00 am – 1:00 pm

Artwork by Mary Dill Henry, a cartoon-ish sunset over white clouds

Please join us for a day at Intersect Palm Springs! Current and prospective members and guests are welcome to join for a special private tour of the fair with Liza Shapiro and Georgia Powell, Co-Founders of CURA Art. Afterwards, stick around for a meet-and-greet with ArtTable’s Lila Harnett Executive Director, Jessica L. Porter, and learn more about ArtTable’s mission and how you can get more involved with the organization.

Intersect Palm Springs is an art and design fair that brings together a dynamic mix of modern and contemporary galleries, and is activated by timely and original programming. It is one of three annual cultural events produced by Intersect Art and Design, in addition to Intersect Aspen and SOFA Chicago. Each event connect galleries with art lovers and collectors, highlighting art and design locally, regionally, and globally. Overseen by Managing Director Becca Hoffman, the Intersect team is committed to building community and connectivity in the locations of the fairs. Through cultural partners, programming, and curatorial vision, Intersect offers year-round opportunities for dialogue, engagement, and inspiration.

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Your ticket includes complimentary access to the fair and one complimentary drink ticket. You will receive information on accessing your VIP pass upon registration.

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To ensure the safety of all visitors, participants, and staff, Intersect Palm Springs is closely monitoring the news, and state and local CDC guidelines, to inform their safety protocols. Please visit the City of Palm Springs website for the most up-to-date information, here.

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The Palm Springs Convention Center (PSCC) provides permanent access accommodations under the guidance of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Wheelchairs are not available at the PSCC, however, they are able to provide you with a list of local vendors to accommodate special needs.

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The Palm Springs Convention Center is located at 277 N Avenida Caballeros, Palm Springs CA 92262.

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About Georgia Powell

Headshot of Georgia PowellGeorgia studied in Italy and the UK, earning a BA in Art History at the University of Warwick, continuing her studies with an MA in the same subject in London. Georgia has gained experience at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, and with an exhibition designer to catalogue and display prominent private collections including The Myers Collection at Eton College and the Portland Collection at Welbeck Abbey. She then managed The Redfern Gallery on London’s prestigious Cork Street. As Assistant Curator of the renowned, private collection of decorative arts owned by The Goldsmiths’ Company in London, Georgia was responsible for managing, exhibiting and expanding a collection of more than 9,000 objects. Georgia is a featured lecturer at Christie’s Education and speaks regularly on the subject of the role of the Collector today.

About Liza Shapiro

Headshot of Liza ShapiroLiza’s interest for caring for works of art began while studying art restoration in Florence, Italy. She earned a BA in Art Conservation from Camberwell College of Arts, London, and an MA in Museum Studies from University College London (UCL). Liza worked at several museums, galleries and conservation studios, including Tate Modern, the Victoria and Albert Museum and The Redfern Gallery. At the oldest hat shop in the world, Lock & Co. Hatters, Liza preserved and catalogued more than 400 ledgers and historical material in order to curate a new, permanent exhibition space. Liza returned home to California in 2015, and has established a strong LA presence, working with varied private collections and industry specialists. Liza is also a mentor for Upward & Associates, a platform that offers guidance and concrete tools to help artists meet their professional goals. 

Image: Mary Dill Henry, Here Comes the Sun, 1972. Acrylic on canvas, 48 x 72 in (121.9 x 182.9 cm), Signed, dated and titled on verso, © Estate of Mary Dill Henry. Courtesy of Berry Campbell, New York

Intersect Palm Springs

Palm Springs Convention Center, 277 N Avenida Caballeros
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San Francisco, CA | Exhibition Tour – “Joan Brown” at SFMOMA with Chief Curator Janet Bishop

February 23, 2023 | 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm

Painting by Joan Brown

Please join us for a tour of the retrospective exhibition, Joan Brown, on view at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, with Janet Bishop, Thomas Weisel Family Chief Curator and Curator of Painting and Sculpture.

Comprising eighty colorful paintings and sculptures, Joan Brown spans the charmingly personal and engaging career of one of San Francisco’s most important local heroes. Deeply embedded in the Bay Area art scene, Joan Brown drew inspiration from many sources to create works that merge autobiography, fantasy, and whimsy, with weightier metaphysical and spiritual themes. This retrospective is the most expansive presentation on the artist’s work in more than twenty years, charting the turns and devotions of a vision that was once dismissed by critics as unserious but was rooted firmly in impassioned curiosity and research and remains uniquely compelling today.

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The Museum entrance and floors are accessible to visitors using wheeled devices or who have mobility difficulties. Our Accessible Drop-off Entrance allows passengers to be dropped off in close proximity to the entrance at Third Street. The entrance also has electric push-button doors for easy entry.

Admission is free for one person accompanying a visitor with accessibility needs.

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Elevators on Floor 1 (off of Third Street and Howard Street) are available to take visitors up to the Ticketing Desk and galleries on Floor 2. A second elevator, located in the Helen and Charles Schwab Hall on Floor 2, stops at all gallery levels (Floors 2–7).

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About the Curator

Janet BishopJanet Bishop is SFMOMA’s Thomas Weisel Family Chief Curator and Curator of Painting and Sculpture. With associate curator Nancy Lim, she is the co-curator of the museum’s Joan Brown retrospective, on view through March 12, 2023, followed by presentations at the Carnegie Museum of Art and the Orange County Museum of Art. Bishop’s first assignment when she joined SFMOMA was to assist with the survey Bay Area Figurative Art, 1950-1965, which gave her a chance to meet Brown. Bishop’s later exhibitions with Bay Area ties include The Steins Collect, Matisse/Diebenkorn, and David Park: A Retrospective. When SFMOMA was closed for construction, she oversaw “SFMOMA On the Go.” Janet is a graduate of Cornell University and Columbia University and currently serves on the Advisory Council of the Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell.

Image: Joan Brown, The Bather #5, 1982; collection SFMOMA, gift of the estate of Joan Brown, Noel Neri, and Michael S. Hebel; (c) Estate of Joan Brown.

SFMOMA

151 Third Street
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Washington, DC | Exhibition Tour – “The Outwin 2022: American Portraiture Today” with Curator Taína Caragol at the National Portrait Gallery

February 17, 2023 | 10:30 am – 11:30 am

Painting by Alison Elizabeth Taylor

Please join us for a tour of “The Outwin: American Portraiture Today” before it closes at the end of February. This one-hour tour will be led by Curator Taína Caragol. The triennial juried exhibition features 42 portraits selected through an open call, by artists working across the United States and Puerto Rico. The pieces, including those by prize winners Alison Elizabeth Taylor and Elsa Maria Melendez, explore a wide range of media and convey a multitude of life experiences.

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The Portrait Gallery is committed to providing access to all visitors.

Service dogs are welcome. The SI follows the U.S. Department of Justice’s ADA requirements for service dogs. The dog must be trained to assist a person with a disability. Visitors are not allowed to bring emotional support animals into Smithsonian museums.

Elevators serve all areas of the building. All restrooms and water fountains are wheelchair accessible. Family/companion care restrooms are located on the first and second floors near the F Street elevators.

Wheelchairs are available for your comfort. To borrow one, ask the security officer stationed at the G Street entrance.

Limited metered parking is available on the streets around the museum. Red Top meters are reserved for drivers with disabled parking placards. For more information about the Red Top Meter Program, check the District Department of Transportation website.

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About the Curator

Headshot of Taina CaragolTaína Caragol is Curator of painting, sculpture, and Latinx art and history at the National Portrait Gallery. Her scholarship focuses on Latinx and Latin American art and its institutional and market validation, as well as on the recovery of histories suppressed by colonialism. Since her hiring in 2013 she has significantly increased the representation of Latinx historical figures and artists at the Portrait Gallery, through approximately 200 acquisitions and by curating or co-curating exhibitions such as One Life: Dolores Huerta, UnSeen: Our Past in a New Light, Ken Gonzales-Day and Titus Kaphar, and The Outwin 2019: American Portraiture Today. She is the director of the Portrait Gallery’s triennial Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition 2022, and co-curator of the resulting The Outwin 2022: American Portraiture Today with Leslie Ureña.

Upcoming exhibitions also include 1898: US Imperial Visions and Revisions, a show co-curated with Kate Clarke Lemay, which will offer a critical examination of the events that turned the US into a world power with overseas territories. As the curator who led the portrait commission of former President Obama by Kehinde Wiley, she is a contributing author to the book “The Obama Portraits,” published in 2020 by Princeton University Press.

Caragol has a B.A. in Modern Languages from the University of Puerto Rico, an M.A. in French Studies from Middlebury College, and a Ph.D. in art history from the Graduate Center, City University of New York.

Image: Alison Elizabeth Taylor, Anthony Cuts under the Williamsburg Bridge, Morning, Marquetry hybrid (wood veneers, oil paint, acrylic paint, inkjet prints, shellac, and sawdust on wood), 2020. Collection of the artist. First Prize in The Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition 2022.

National Portrait Gallery

8th & G Streets NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States + Google Map

Atlanta, GA | Artist Talk & Exhibition Tour with Jessica Blinkhorn

January 21, 2023 | 11:00 am – 1:00 pm

Jessica Blinkhorn portrait

Please join us for a special tour and meet and greet with artist Jessica Blinkhorn.

SPANKBOX is a photographic installation depicting individuals with varying disabilities from all communities in sexualized, hypersexualized poses and situations. We at SPANKBOX ask that the “for now” non-disabled community evaluate their preconceived notions regarding disability and sexuality. How do you perceive disability and sexuality? What standard do you hold us to? Do you view us as an asexual monolith? Do you see our bodies as objects to commodify and or fetishize? Do you celebrate the disabled body and all of its beauty?

The mission at SPANKBOX is to provide a safe space where the community can self-educate by examining the disabled body and asking questions without shame. In return, we ask that you engage in conversation with us by answering one of the many questions provided by our participants (SPANKERS). By educating the community about disability and sexuality, we celebrate our identities as autonomous, dimensional individuals rather than sick, broken, and vulnerable. When a community has been identified as weak, that community will likely be preyed upon.

It is up to us, society as a whole, to engage in a conversation without pretense, ego, and hurt feelings. To effectively promote actual change, we have to have uncomfortable conversations. It’s time for the disabled community to be seen for our abilities! We love, celebrate, work, empathize, motivate, and move forward through an intrepid landscape of social barriers that should not exist in today’s time.

During her residency at UUCA, Jessica plans to focus on two bodies of work – REVERENCE (memory portraits) and SPANKBOX, curating a show for the Pulgram Gallery at UUCA, working with disabled and lgbtq+ youths and seniors by way of providing low-cost art classes, providing an artist talk for the community and congregation, and, lastly, with community support, a prom for disabled and lgbtq+ youths.

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The Pulgram Gallery at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Atlanta is located at 2650 N. Druid Hills Rd. NE Atlanta, Georgia 30329. Click here for directions from any location.

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About the Artist

Jessica Elaine Blinkhorn is an Atlanta-based Interdisciplinary Artist. Blinkhorn’s work advocates for the LGBTQ+, disabled, and aging communities. Blinkhorn, who uses a powerchair, focuses her work on acceptance through acknowledgement of difference, body positivity, disability education through experience and exposure, human sexuality, and story-telling.

Image: Jessica Blinkhorn, SPANKBOX installation. All images provided by the artist.

Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Atlanta

Pulgram Gallery, 2650 N. Druid Hills Rd. NE
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Yonkers, NY | Private Tour of “Matrix: Prints by Women Artists, 1960–1990” with Laura Vookles, Chief Curator of Collections, Hudson River Museum

February 11, 2023 | 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm

Julia Santos Solomon (American, b. Dominican Republic, 1956). Palma Real, 1988. Silkscreen. Private Collection. © Julia Santos Solomon.

Please join us for private tour of Matrix: Prints by Women Artists, 1960–1990 led by Laura Vookles, Chief Curator of Collections at the Hudson River Museum and ArtTable member, followed by a light reception.

Matrix: Prints by Women Artists, 1960–1990 explores a period of experimentation in printmaking among women artists, who used the art form as a means of creative expression and also a way to enter the male-dominated art market. Artists such as Minna Citron, Chryssa, Helen Frankenthaler, the Guerrilla Girls, Louise Nevelson, Faith Ringgold, and Julia Santos Solomon experimented with the medium during these three decades and became a formidable matrix from which a new generation of printmakers would develop. Individually and collectively, these artists expanded the genre through their mastery of technique and collaboration, while defining and broadening a new, more inclusive voice and visual language.

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About the Laura Vookles

Laura Vookles, Chief Curator of Collections at the Hudson River Museum, has co-curated and written essays for Museum publications, including “The Old Croton Aqueduct: Rural Resources Meet Urban Needs”; “Next Stop Westchester! People and the Railroad”; “Westchester: The American Suburb”; “Dutch New York: the Roots of Hudson Valley Culture”; “Paintbox Leaves: Autumnal Inspiration from Cole to Wyeth”; and “The Panoramic River: The Hudson and the Thames.” She also conceived, curated and wrote the lead essay and catalogue for “Elihu Vedder: Journey on the Nile.” In the 28 years that she has worked at the Hudson River Museum, she has focused much effort on Glenview, the Museum’s 1877 Hudson River house for which she completed numerous furnishing, conservation, and interpretation projects. Vookles is also a member of ArtTable.

Image: Julia Santos Solomon (American, b. Dominican Republic, 1956). Palma Real, 1988. Silkscreen. Private Collection. © Julia Santos Solomon. Courtesy of the Hudson River Museum.

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