Hyperallergic

'Women of Abstract Expressionism’ Challenges the Canon But Is Only the Beginning

DENVER — The story goes like this. It is 1950. Virginia-born painter Judith Godwin learns that dancer and choreographer Martha Graham will be in the region and all Godwin can think about is her desire ...

Abstract Expressionist women artists make a splash at Muscarelle Museum

“Abstract Expressionists: The Women” was first displayed at the Wichita Art Museum in Kansas. After leaving the Muscarelle, ...
Hyperallergic

Finally, an Exhibition Devoted to the Women of Abstract Expressionism

The paradigm of the “overlooked female artist” is both a cliché and a truth. We all know the art market is unceasingly hungry, and previously sidelined women artists are the perfect food. But that ...
The New Criterion

The women of Abstract Expressionism

On Ninth Street Women: Five Painters and the Movement that Changed Modern Art, by Mary Gabriel. Jackson Pollock was dead. Drunk, as usual, he’d overturned his Oldsmobile in the summer of 1956, ...
The Topeka Capital-Journal

Women of abstract expressionism shake up new art exhibit at Mulvane Art Museum

Abstract expressionism is coming to Washburn University. Mulvane Art Museum has opened a new exhibit: "Women of Abstract Expressionism." The exhibition contains paintings and drawings curated from the ...
Artnet

‘They Were Radical In the Best Sense of the Word’: Setareh Gallery Spotlights the Women of Abstract Expressionism

The hyper-masculine post-war mythology that’s often tied to Abstract Expressionism has long been recognized as a problematic historical narrative because it elides many of the movement’s equally ...
Newsday

Southampton Arts Center spotlights 'Heroines of the Abstract Expressionist Era'

In one of art history's least beloved anecdotes, Lee Krasner, the pioneering painter, East Hampton resident and wife of Jackson Pollock, recounted to an interviewer that her teacher, artist Hans ...
Colorado Public Radio

A ‘Treasure Hunt’ Led To ‘Women Of Abstract Expressionism’ Exhibit

This story first aired on August 4, 2016. Men receive much of the attention in abstract expressionism, a movement from the 1940s and 50s known for large, bold paintings, and for big names like Jackson ...
The Santa Fe New Mexican

Camera obscura: "Women of Abstract Expressionism"

A famous 1950 photograph of the painter Jackson Pollock broadcasts an unwitting message. Pollock’s gleaming head commands the viewer’s eye, his brow furrowed in concentration; his body — frozen in ...
Los Angeles Times

Review: A groundbreaking show to confront the gender bias in art: ‘Women of Abstract Expressionism’

Art museums in Los Angeles currently overflow with first-rate exhibitions. An unusually strong array of well-organized solo and thematic shows covering a variety of art has made the first months of ...
KCRW

Women of Abstract Expressionism

Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning: The most recognizable names of post-war abstract painting are male. In recent years, curators have expanded that perspective to include their talented wives Lee ...