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.One of the most renowned artists of the Pictures Generation, Cindy Sherman has consistently utilized the overwhelming expanse of mass media images that have proliferated every corner of American life and culture as sites of reconsideration, examination, and exploration. Her reputation was built on the success of her “Untitled Film Stills,” a series of black-and-white photographs from the late 1970s in which the artist depicted herself in various typecast roles of the Hollywood heroine, from the diligent housewife to the scandalous temptress. Serving as the director, model, set and costume designer, makeup artist, and more, Sherman retains and commands full control over the production and outcome of her artistic labor. In this series, she subverts the tendency of the male gaze to reduce female subjects to stereotypes, directly using her own image and vision to lead and invite critical conversations surrounding the place of women within our increasingly pervasive and inescapable media culture.Posted by Chiara MannarinoCindy Sherman. Untitled Film Still #38, 1979. Gelatin silver print. Photography. Anonymous gift in memory of Jack Boulton, 1989.30.35. Courtesy of the artist and Metro Pictures, New York  -- source link
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