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.Best known for her large-scale, free-standing rubber tire sculptures that have appeared in public sites throughout the United States, Chakaia Booker’s Sweet Dreams violently bursts out of its rectangular frame, offering an aggressive response to the tradition of the monochromatic black painting. Made from her signature material of cut and manipulated rubber tires, Sweet Dreams hardly suggests soothing dreams or the achievement of a calming aesthetic transcendence—like much of her work, it can be read as a response to the urban landscapes of her childhood in Newark, NJ, the industrial surrounding of her studio in Allentown, PA., and the fraught experiences of African-Americans within these environments.Posted by Allie RickardChakaia Booker (American, born 1953). Sweet Dreams, 2000. Rubber and wood. Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art. Gift of Elizabeth A. Sackler, 2014.29. -- source link
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