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.An-My Lê, who arrived in the United States from Vietnam as a political refugee in 1975, explores the glorification of war in images of domestic and global U.S. military activity. Lê uses a large-format camera, similar to those employed by Civil War photographers, to document landscapes transformed by conflict. In the series 29 Palms, Lê photographs staged training sites built for American recruits in California’s Mojave Desert. Security and Stability Operations (Good Saddam) depicts former military housing transformed into a seemingly hostile environment when tagged with mock anti-American graffiti, examining the difference between simulated experiences and representations of actual war.An-My Lê (born Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, 1960) 29 Palms: Security and Stability Operations(Good Saddam), 2003–4. Gelatin silver photograph, edition 1/5. Gift of Pamela and Arnold Lehman and Patricia and Randall Lewis, 2016.34 -- source link

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