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Exhibition on Women Pop Artists Planned
anne, Monday 09 November 2009
I learned of this exciting exhibition recently, as they are featuring This is Tomorrow. Its planned for next year:
The Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery of The University of the Arts in conjunction with the Galleries of Tufts University will present a major exhibition Seductive Subversion: Women Pop Artists, 1958-1968 . This program is fully funded by a generous grant from Pew Charitable Trusts, which will in conjunction with the Andy Warhol Foundation produce a documentary film on the subject. The exhibition will be shown in January 15 through March 15, 2010 in Philadelphia and will travel to Medford Massachusetts in the winter of 2010. Seductive Subversion will be the first exhibition of Pop Art by women anywhere in the world. We will rectify this oversight with the exhibition, catalogue, and symposium (February 5-6, 2010).
More than any post World War II art movement, Pop Art has traditionally been represented by two handfuls of American and British male painters. Female artists exhibiting in the first Pop exhibitions have been relegated to the margins of history with the exception of Marisol (Escobar) and more recently the revised reputation of Pauline Boty. Seductive Subversion will expand the narrow definition of classic "Pop Art" and reevaluate the critical reception of this movement. In recovering these important artists, we are enlarging the canon to more accurately reflect the women working internationally in the early 1960s.
Seductive Subversion will include works by Evelyne Axell, Pauline Boty, Chryssa, Vija Celmins, Niki De Saint Phalle, Rosalyn Drexler, Dorothy Grebenak, Jann Haworth, Kay Kurt, Lee Lozano, Marisol, Mara McAfee, Marta Minujin, Marjorie Strider, Idelle Weber and Joyce Weiland. The majority of the artists will be represented by two to three artworks. In addition, we will have specific works by Yayoi Kusama, Barbro Ostlihn, and Alina Szapocznikow to further develop the theme. We have secured major loans for this project including Boty’s Big Jim Colisimo, an early Chryssa drawing and Ampersand from the Abrams family, Celmins Pencil from the Broad collection at the National Gallery in Washington, a nine foot de Saint Phalle Nana from the Niki Art Foundation, a Grebenak from Kimiko Powers, a beautiful Kusama from Barbara Castelli, Marisol’s John Wayne, a major Ostlihn from Robert Rauschenberg’s collection, several Striders from the International Girlie Show at Pace Gallery and a seventeen foot triptych by Weber illustrated in Lippard’s Pop Art.
In conjunction with the exhibition, we will produce an illustrated catalogue of approximately 150 pages. The authors include Linda Nochlin and Kalliopi Minioudaki from New York’s Institute of Fine Arts, Annika Ohrner on Barbro Ostlihn, Sue Tate (one of the historians who rediscovered Pauline Boty), Martha Rosler, Patty Mucha (Oldenburg) and Bradford Collins, who has completed a new Phaidon monograph on Pop Art.
In conjunction with the exhibition, we will produce an illustrated catalogue of approximately 150 pages. We have employed Connie Purtill as the book designer and will be using Joseph Newland as editor so the catalog should be quite good. In 2002, we initiated a retrospective of Yvonne Rainer that was seen in Los Angeles, Milwaukee, Cambridge and Florida. It was awarded an AICA award for the best monographic exhibition in New England. We envision the Seductive Subversioncatalog to be as thorough as the Rainer.
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