feminine art
August 18 1920 the was approved Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution , which guaranteed, for the first time, women's suffrage. To celebrate this event, the Baltimore Museum of Art **(BMA) ** will only incorporate works created by women to his permanent collection.
'2020 Vision' , which started last fall, will have a total of 22 exhibitions: 13 individual samples, seven thematic shows and other additional presentations still in planning.
"Planes, Rockets, and the Spaces In Between" by Amy Sherald
A monographic study of the career of the expressionist painter Joan Mitchell or a sample of the videos of South African artist Candice Breitz are some of the proposals.
In turn, the program will be supported by a wide range of events that will encourage dialogue on the various and numerous **contributions of women to the history of art** and to the development of many of today's art institutions.
Candice Breitz: 'Too Long, Didn't Read'
This proposal is just one more piece of evidence of the BMA's constant commitment to closing the gaps of race and gender within the field of museums, thus managing to give a more complete vision of the personalities that are part of the artistic universe.
In numbers: this temple of art has some 3,800 works by 1,050 artists and designers. The first painting by a woman to enter the museum's collection (in 1916, two years after its foundation) was a portrait of Sarah Miriam Peale, the first American woman to succeed as a professional artist.
In addition, it should be noted that several of these artists, as is the case with Simone Brangier Boas, Grace Hartigan or Amalie Rothschild , resided in baltimore during their runs.
"'2020 Vision' serves to recognize the voices, narratives and creative innovations of a range of extraordinarily talented women artists. The goal of this effort is to rebalance the scales and recognize the ways in which Women's contributions still do not receive the academic scrutiny, dialogue and public acclaim they deserve." Christopher Bedford said, museum director.
The exhibitions will cover different themes. For example, By Their Creative Force: American Women Modernists , presents some of the works of Elizabeth Catlett, María Martínez, Georgia O'Keeffe and other artists who contributed to the main artistic movements of the 20th century, such as cubism or abstract expressionism.
Mickalene Thomas Installation
What can we delight ourselves with today? Well, from an immersive installation by the artist Mickalene Thomas , which has transformed the museum's East Lobby into a colorful salon with an eighties aesthetic ; or of Free Form: 20th-Century Studio Craft , which presents works by innovative embroidery, pottery and jewelry artists.
Just as we can enjoy Adorned: African Women & the Art of Identity , a sample that collects two dozen works that demonstrate the decisive role of African women of the 20th century in the formation of social identities via objects created in clay, fabric and beads.
It will be in March when the Candice Breitz video pieces . This artist creates poignant sociopolitical narratives that address topics such as the lives of immigrants or the rights of sex workers . His key works of her? TLDR (2017) and Love Story (2016).
In summer, the BMA will present a selection of beadwork by 19th-century Lakota women , which subversively incorporated the american flag and other patriotic symbols to traditional Native American designs.
'My Landscape II. 1967' by Joan Mitchell
On the other hand, we will have to wait until September to see the retrospective Joan Mitchell: Fierce Beauty , which reveals us from his exceptional New York paintings from the early 1950s to the impressive large-scale works carried out in ** France ** by the expressionist painter.
Zackary Drucker , SharonLockhart, Ana Mendieta , Howardena Pindell, Tschabalala Self, Lisa Yuskavage, Valerie Maynard, Jo Smail, Shan Wallace and Elissa Blount Moorhead They will be other protagonists at the BMA this 2020. For more information, visit their website.
Turkana necklace