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 Latinx artists from our collection, some of whom are included in our upcoming exhibition Radical Women: Latin American Art, 1960-1985 which explores the groundbreaking contributions to contemporary art of Latin American and Latina women artists during a period of extraordinary conceptual and aesthetic experimentation. The show will be on view April 13-July 22, 2018. 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.Lourdes Grobet is a Mexican photographer whose best-known work is her extensive body of photographs documenting lucha libre wrestlers over multiple decades. In her series “Paisajes Pintados” (Painted Landscapes), Grobet documents her performative interventions which demarcate cacti, rocks, and patches of ground from the surrounding environment. Posted by Allie RickardM. Lourdes Grobet (Mexican, born 1940). Untitled (Cactus Painted Red/Yellow), ca. 1986. Silver dye bleach photograph (Cibachrome), image: 7 ½ x 7 ¾ in. (19.1 x 19.7 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Marcuse Pfeifer, 1990.119.12. © artist or artist’s estate  -- source link

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