Impress your friends with five fast facts about artist Tanja Rector, whose work is on view in NMWA’s collection galleries.
![Two clear glass mason jars side by side. In the left jar is a color photograph of a light skinned woman standing with head bent and hands clasped in front of her. In the right jar is the same woman seen from rear with hands clasped behind her.](https://nmwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/2002.91a-b-aspect-ratio-2.25-1-700x330.jpg)
Impress your friends with five fast facts about Faith Ringgold, whose work is on view in NMWA’s collection galleries.
![Close-up photograph of a painted quilt shows a medium-dark skinned woman dancing exuberantly. There is a white flower in her hair, and she wears dangling gold earrings and gold loops around her neck.](https://nmwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Collection-Artworks-3rdFloor-_14_-aspect-ratio-2.25-1-700x330.jpg)
Impress your friends with five fast facts about artist Janet Forrester Ngala, whose work is on view in NMWA’s collection galleries.
![A very close-up detail shot of a painting featuring tiny dots arranged to form vary shades of blue circles outlined in white. Layered blue dots, appearing almost three-dimensional against a black background, are in focus in the foreground and the blue background is blurred.](https://nmwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Collection-Artworks-3rdFloor-_4_-aspect-ratio-2.25-1-700x330.jpg)
Learn more about Austrian-born artist Kiki Kogelnik, whose work Superwoman (1973) is now on view in the museum.
![A monumental figure sports a gray camouflage jumpsuit, black army boots, red gloves, and an aviator cap with goggles. Legs splayed, the standing figure wields oversized, white scissors open in an X-shape. The linear style, bulbous eyewear, and cartoonish weapon evoke comic books.](https://nmwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/1992.100_transp-aspect-ratio-2.25-1-700x330.jpg)
Modern and contemporary women artists with works on view at NMWA employ self-portraiture to address personal, social, and political issues.
![A photograph shows the nude artist sitting in a metal grocery cart. It is located on a paved road in a flat, empty landscape under a gray, misty sky. Her back to the viewer, the light-skinned, brunette woman holds her raised arms in a wide V-shape, suggesting joy or abandon.](https://nmwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/2014.26_1294-aspect-ratio-2.25-1-700x330.jpg)
More than Meets the Eye: Surprising Materials
Posted: October 27, 2017
Category: From The Collection
Several of the artists featured in NMWA’s collection galleries create works that seem to be at odds with their materials. In creating a paradox between subject and material, these artists...
![Large, abstract sculpture, fabricated of rusted iron wires, conveys an organic form. At center is a mass of thin, tangled wires shaped into a thick disc, sitting on edge. From either side of the center disc a mass of slightly bent, thicker wires juts straight out.](https://nmwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/1994.3_386-aspect-ratio-2.25-1-1-700x330.jpg)
![View of the museum from outside showing the Neoclassical building from one corner. The building is a tan-colored stone with an arched doorway, long vertical windows, and detailed molding around the roof.](https://nmwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/thf46715_nmwa41-scaled-aspect-ratio-2.25x1.jpg)
Upon first glance, paintings by Fanny Sanín (b. 1938) look impeccably neat. Whether on paper or canvas, the decisive lines and solid colors of her geometric abstractions almost conceal evidence...
![Abstract painting of varying sizes of rectangles divided into three vertical sections flanked by thin, light blue stripes. The central composition includes red cross-shapes with cream, grey and black rectangles; on either side are symmetrical black, brown, and gray horizontal stripes.](https://nmwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Acrylic-No.-2-2011-scaled-aspect-ratio-2.25x1.jpg)
Impress your friends with five fast facts about artist Jiha Moon, whose work is on view in NMWA’s collection galleries.
![Abstract painting features translucent, wave-like turquoise, aquamarine, and fuchsia washes mingled with red lines and hard-edged, matte-pink sinuous shapes bounded by blue and green scales. Other details resolve into a human hand, tree-sprigged mountains, and craggy branches.](https://nmwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/2012.26-1-aspect-ratio-2.25-1-700x330.jpg)
The museum’s newly reinstalled collection emphasizes connections between historical and contemporary art. Organized by the themes of the body, nature, domesticity, fabrication, and herstory, each gallery delves into a topic...
![Golden lusterware chalice features a wide bowl above two looped handles on either side of the cone-shaped base. Raised circular decorations adorn the base and the outside of the bowl.](https://nmwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/2010.27_1163-aspect-ratio-2.25-1-700x330.jpg)