If you ask someone to name five artists, they will likely name prominent male artists, but how many

If you ask someone to name five artists, they will likely name prominent male artists, but how many people can list five women artists? Throughout March’s Women’s History Month, we will be joining institutions around the world to answer this very question posed by the National Museum of Women in the Arts (NWMA). We will be featuring a woman artist every day this month, and highlighting artists in our current exhibition Half the Picture: A Feminist Look at the Collection which explores a wide range of art-making, focusing on enduring political subjects—encompassing gender, race, and class—that remain relevant today. The show is on view until March 31, 2019.Together we hope to draw attention to the gender and race imbalance in the art world, inspire conversation and awareness, and hopefully add a few more women to everyone’s lists.A Brooklyn native, Lorna Simpson was born in Crown Heights in 1960. Her experience traveling through Europe, Africa, and the United States in the 1970s greatly influenced her artistic vision. Originally interested in documentary photography, Simpson veered towards exploring the conceptual potential of the photographic medium as she considered the authenticity of documentary photography. Focusing heavily on African American women, Simpson has staged photographic portraits, combined them with text, and presented them in varying presentations and installations in order to comment on identity, race, and memory. Simpson has additionally explored the mediums of drawing, video, and film.Posted by Chiara MannarinoLorna Simpson (American, born 1960). Counting, 1991. Photogravure and silkscreen. Photography. Gift of Ellen and Daniel Shapiro, 2002.58. -- source link

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