The New Year is off to a great start with many appealing gallery exhibitions opening this month. I was so delighted with Christopher Knight’s Los Angeles Times article stating that “female artists finally outnumbered men in L.A. Museum Solo shows.” From what I see on the horizon, 2019 also looks like a year rich with exhibitions of […]
Women Around Town, Mid-May 2017
IN THE GALLERIES: “POWER” is an exhibition at Spruth Magers gallery (image left) that surveys the work of various African-American women artists from the 19th century to the present. This show includes work by 37 artists beginning with those born soon after the Civil War. The examples provide some understanding of how these women artists […]
A Nod to Women Artists of the Past
Today I am sharing a list that was printed in a Huffington Post article on historical women artists. (Image: Photograph by Julia Margaret Cameron) The list is comprised of ten women artists who have been part of the curriculum of several of the courses I have taught over the years. These women artists have rarely been […]
Women Around Town
In 2009, I was asked by So. Calif. Women’s Caucus for Art President, Sandra Mueller if I would like to write the Women Around Town column for the organization’s monthly e-newsletter. As an art historian who had been teaching and researching women artists for several years it seemed like a wonderful opportunity and responsibility. […]
