Artist Spotlight: Claude Raguet Hirst—Trumping Male Still Life
Posted: March 22, 2011
Category: Artist Spotlight
Learn more about artist Claude Raguet Hirst, whose work A Gentleman’s Table (late 1890s to early 1900s) is featured in the NMWA collection.
Photographer Graciela Iturbide: Capturing the Spirit
Posted: March 17, 2011
Category: Artist Spotlight
Mexican artist Graciela Iturbide is considered on of the most important and influential Latin American photographers of the past four decades. Her oeuvre is rich in dramatic and intense imagery...
Artist Spotlight: Karen Halverson Captures Americana on Camera
Posted: March 11, 2011
Category: Artist Spotlight
Karen Halverson (American, b. 1941) creates large format color landscape photographs. She spent several decades documenting the American West, traveling throughout the country capturing the intersection of the natural and...
Artist Spotlight: Hellen van Meene Makes You Wonder
Posted: March 4, 2011
Category: Artist Spotlight
Artist Spotlight: Ingrid Mwangi—H-y-p-h-e-n-a-t-e-d Identity
Posted: February 25, 2011
Category: Artist Spotlight
Learn about performance and video artist Ingrid Mwangi's (Mwangi Hutter) exploration of hyphenated identity.
Artist Spotlight: Georgia Mills Jessup—Right as Rain
Posted: February 17, 2011
Category: Artist Spotlight
In her 1967 painting, Rainy Night, Downtown, part of the NMWA collection and on view on the third floor, Jessup celebrates the urban landscape on a rainy evening.
Artist Spotlight: Chakaia Booker—Hail to the ‘Queen of Rubber Soul’
Posted: February 9, 2011
Category: Artist Spotlight
In 2002, independent curator and art critic Lily Wei wrote that everything Chakaia Booker does is “filtered through being black, a woman, and an artist.” Although relatively quiet and private...
Artist Spotlight: E. V. Day—Don’t Get Your Panties in a Bunch
Posted: February 2, 2011
Category: Artist Spotlight
Often working with readymade objects such as Barbie dolls, fishnet stockings, opera costumes, and wedding dresses, sculptor and installation artist E. V. Day delves into the cultural fetishism by manipulating...
Now on view in NMWA’s Teresa Lozano Long Gallery, The Art of Travel: Picturesque Views of Europe by Richenda Cunningham features “Nine Views Taken on the Continent,” c. 1830, a...
Artist Spotlight: Valeska Soares–More than the Eye Can See
Posted: January 27, 2011
Category: Artist Spotlight
Brazilian sculptor and installation artist Valeska Soares investigates multi-sensory approaches and how memory and personality influence the viewers’ perception of art. Soares has two artworks in P(art)ners: Gifts from Heather...