NMWA’s current exhibition, Pressing Ideas: Fifty Years of Women’s Lithographs from Tamarind, features one of Julia Jacquette’s recent works, White Square (2004).
Pressing Ideas: Fifty Years of Women’s Lithographs from Tamarind, Artist Spotlight: Elaine de Kooning
Posted: July 12, 2011
Category: Nmwa Exhibitions
Elaine (Fried) de Kooning (1918–89), primarily known for her Abstract Expressionist portrait paintings, was also an influential art teacher at institutions including Yale University, Carnegie-Mellon University, Parsons School of Design,...
From Pressing Ideas: Fifty Years of Women’s Lithographs from Tamarind, Artist Spotlight: Polly Apfelbaum
Posted: June 23, 2011
Category: Nmwa Exhibitions
Inspired by popular culture and, to a lesser extent, feminism, Polly Apfelbaum compels viewers to think about the pleasure of the aesthetic experience. A contemporary printmaker and mixed-media artist, Apfelbaum is...
Artist Spotlight: Gertrude Käsebier as Photography Pioneer
Posted: April 18, 2011
Category: Nmwa Exhibitions
One of the artists featured in Eye Wonder: Photography from the Bank of America Collection is Gertrude Käsebier (1852—1934), (pronounced “KAY-zerr-beer”), one of the most influential photographers of the early...
Artist Spotlight: Karen Halverson Captures Americana on Camera
Posted: March 11, 2011
Category: Nmwa Exhibitions
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...
OPENING THIS FRIDAY–Eye Wonder: Photography from the Bank of America Collection
Posted: February 15, 2011
Category: Nmwa Exhibitions
Artist Spotlight: E. V. Day—Don’t Get Your Panties in a Bunch
Posted: February 2, 2011
Category: Nmwa Exhibitions
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: Nmwa Exhibitions
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...
Artist Spotlight: Catherine Yass Lights Things Up
Posted: January 11, 2011
Category: Nmwa Exhibitions
Catherine Yass explores the power of architecture to affect psychological states. By experimenting with color processing, Yass imbues her images of commonplace sites with an otherworldly formal beauty. P(art)ners: Gifts...