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Striking Balance: Fanny Sanín’s Process
Posted: October 7, 2017
Category: Nmwa Exhibitions
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.

American Abstraction: Expanded
Posted: October 4, 2017
Category: Nmwa Exhibitions
NMWA hosts the exhibition Magnetic Fields: Expanding American Abstraction, 1960s to Today, opening to the public on Friday, October 13, 2017. Mildred Thompson, Untitled (Wood Picture), ca. 1966; Found wood...
Abstract painting features a vivid yellow background covered by circles, daubs, and straight and wavy lines in red, orange, cobalt, sky blue, and violet. Arcing red strokes evoke concentric circles. Straight lines in other hues radiate out from the center circle like a starburst.

Wonder Women: Flappers Meet Underground Comics
Posted: September 11, 2017
Category: Nmwa Exhibitions
NMWA could not host an exhibition called Wonder Women! without featuring several exceptional comics! The first group of objects on view in the Betty Boyd Dettre Library and Research Center...
Comic book cover featuring a woman in a bathing suit with a blue bottom with stars and a red top. She has a light skin tone and is appearing oversized as she tramples across a busy highway, shattering planes with her hand. The title reads "Ms" and "Wonder Woman for President."

High Profile: Bettina von Zwehl
Posted: September 8, 2017
Category: Nmwa Exhibitions
In celebration of NMWA’s 30th anniversary, and inspired by the museum’s focus on contemporary women artists as catalysts for change, Revival illuminates how women working in sculpture, photography, and video use spectacle...
View of a gallery space with a pink and white wall. Three large photographic portraits of babies and young children are hanging next to each other, taking up the whole wall.

Crocheted Creatures: Joana Vasconcelos
Posted: September 7, 2017
Category: Nmwa Exhibitions
In celebration of NMWA’s 30th anniversary, and inspired by the museum’s focus on contemporary women artists as catalysts for change, Revival illuminates how women working in sculpture, photography, and video use spectacle...
A mass-produced, ceramic German shepherd sits upright and alert with mouth open and tongue extended as if panting. Panels of elaborate hand-crafted crochet in shades of mint, citron, and emerald green form a skin-tight web that entirely envelops the dog.

Every Rose Has Its Thorn: Alison Saar
Posted: September 6, 2017
Category: Nmwa Exhibitions
In celebration of NMWA’s 30th anniversary, and inspired by the museum’s focus on contemporary women artists as catalysts for change, Revival illuminates how women working in sculpture, photography, and video use spectacle...
Lithograph print on a blue background portrays a nude woman laying horizontally across the length of the paper. In place of hair, a bottle tree appears to sprout from the figure’s head.

“Bossy” Blue Gowns: Beverly Semmes
Posted: September 5, 2017
Category: Nmwa Exhibitions
In celebration of NMWA’s 30th anniversary, and inspired by the museum’s focus on contemporary women artists as catalysts for change, Revival illuminates how women working in sculpture, photography, and video use spectacle...
Three long fabric trains in two shades of blue, mounted on a far wall and cascading onto the floor like a waterfall.

Humanly Possible: Patricia Piccinini
Posted: August 23, 2017
Category: Nmwa Exhibitions
In celebration of NMWA’s 30th anniversary, and inspired by the museum’s focus on contemporary women artists as catalysts for change, Revival illuminates how women working in sculpture, photography, and video use spectacle...
A sculpture consists of two metallic-orange motor scooters manipulated to resemble male deer. Leather seats become haunches, dashboard dials resemble faces, and multiple rear-view mirrors morph into antlers. The serpentine, hybrid animal-machines appear to spar for dominance.

Veiled Meaning: Deborah Paauwe
Posted: August 17, 2017
Category: Nmwa Exhibitions
Deborah Paauwe’s interest in photography began when she took a series of self-portraits in her youth, delighting in the potential for self-revelation through tightly focused images.

Growing Pains: Maria Marshall
Posted: August 14, 2017
Category: Nmwa Exhibitions
In celebration of NMWA’s 30th anniversary, and inspired by the museum’s focus on contemporary women artists as catalysts for change, Revival illuminates how women working in sculpture, photography, and video use spectacle...
A video screen showing a little boy with a light skin tone smoking is framed by two photographs showing the same boy wearing a fur and with a rat on his head.