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• The Female Gaze

  in Art and Photography

  Selzer, Anita, 1956-

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  This provides an alternative view of women through the eyes of female artists.

• The Passion of Artemesia

  Vreeland, Susan

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  "Artemesia Gentileschi was the first and only female artists to achieve success in the seventeenth century." One of her most famous paintings is Judith Slaying Holofernes, which is thought to be aimed at the man who raped her. This surveys her work…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Faith Ringgold

  Ringgold, Faith,

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  "Faith Ringgold was a pioneering painter, mixed media sculptor, performance artist, author, teacher and activist whose powerful works address issues of race, gender, and social justice. Ringgold’s innovative use of quilting and storytelling…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Augusta Savage

  Renaissance Woman

  Hayes, Jeffreen M.,

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  Augusta Savage was a prominent sculptor and Art Teacher during the Harlem Renaissance.

• Judy Chicago

  Herstory

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  "Judy Chicago is a feminist artist and is best known for her work The Dinner Party (1974 to 1979), which celebrates women’s history through place settings designed for 39 important women. The monumental, collaborative project incorporates…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Jenny Holzer

  Holzer, Jenny, 1950-

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  Jenny Holzer is a conceptual artist that uses text in her work, including large scale installations and electric light displays. - www.moma.org

• Mickalene Thomas

  All About Love

  Thomas, Mickalene, 1971-

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  Mickalene Thomas is inspired by art history as well as popular culture, Thomas’s works allude to sources ranging from 19th-century French painting to 1970s Blaxploitation films. Her acknowledged influences include Edouard Manet and Henri Matisse, as…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Lee Krasner

  Living Colour

  Krasner, Lee, 1908-1984,

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  "Krasner's Little Image paintings, thickly painted with abstract symbols, are today considered among her most significant contributions to Abstract Expressionism." Lee Krasner was long overshadowed by her husband, Jackson Pollock, but she was a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Kara Walker

  White Shadows in Blackface

  Hobbs, Robert Carleton, 1946-

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  "Kara Walker is best known for her candid investigation of race, gender, sexuality, and violence through silhouetted figures that have appeared in numerous exhibitions worldwide." - www.karawalkerstudio.com

• Betye Saar

  Black Doll Blues

  Saar, Betye,

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  "Betye Saar's first works were color etchings, but in the late sixties, she changed direction after attending an exhibition of boxes by Joseph Cornell. Drawing on a childhood interest in mysticism and the occult, she began a series of boxes based on…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Cindy Sherman

  Respini, Eva

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  "In most of her works, Sherman is model, photographer, and director. She regularly alters her appearance beyond recognition through makeup, prosthetics, and costumes. She draws her personas from a range of sources, including fairytales, art history,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Barbara Kruger

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  "Kruger has said, “I try to make work that joins the seductions of wishful thinking with the criticality of knowing better.”1 Through a canny combination of imagery and text appropriated from magazines, television, video, and newspapers, Kruger's…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Maya Lin

  Thinking With Her Hands

  Rubin, Susan Goldman,

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  "Trained as an architect and an artist, Lin’s work encompasses memorial designs, architectural works, and large-scale environmental installations. Using water and natural landscapes as a throughline between her disparate practices, Lin’s work…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Vija Celmins: To Fix the Image in Memory

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  "Vija Celmins is a Latvian American visual artist best known for photo-realistic paintings and drawings of natural environments and phenomena such as the ocean, spider webs, star fields, and rocks. " Celmins attended Herron School of Art and Design…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Frida Kahlo

  the Painter and Her Work

  Kahlo, Frida,

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  Frida Kahlo is one of the world's most well know artists. "Of her 143 paintings, 55 are self-portraits which often incorporate symbolic portrayals of physical and psychological wounds. She insisted, "I never painted dreams. I painted my own…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Fierce Poise

  Helen Frankenthaler and 1950s New York

  Nemerov, Alexander,

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  "Helen Frankenthaler has long been recognized as one of the great American artists of the twentieth century. She was eminent among the second generation of postwar American abstract painters and is widely credited for playing a pivotal role in the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Runaway Girl

  the Artist Louise Bourgeois

  Greenberg, Jan, 1942-

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  Louise Bourgeois is a French American painter and sculptor started off with abstracted figuration instilled with psychological and symbolic content. Later she incorporated feminist themes into her work. - www.guggenheim.org

• Alice Neel

  People Come First

  Neel, Alice, 1900-1984,

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  Alice Neel was a painter that painted the people and the world around her from the 1920s through the 1980s, a time during which figurative painting was devalued and marginalized." - www.moma.org

• Cassatt

  Mothers and Children

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  "Mary Cassatt was an American painter and printmaker. She lived much of her adult life in France, where she first befriended Edgar Degas and later exhibited among the Impressionists. Cassatt often created images of the social and private lives of…Read moreRead more of this annotation