Nmwa Exhibitions

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.

SOLO Spotlight: Dotty Attie

Posted: August 12, 2010
Category: Nmwa Exhibitions
Dotty Attie’s work, mannered, realist, delicate, is all about violence. Masterpieces copied, cut, contextualized anew. Images of women manipulated to accentuate their vulnerability to the powerful male and his gaze....
A view of a gallery space with several colorful works hanging on the walls.

Woman to Watch: Jennifer Levonian

Posted: July 29, 2010
Category: Nmwa Exhibitions
Third in our summer series of Women to Watch artist spotlights, Jennifer Levonian talks about how she made her work Take Your Picture with a Puma. Levonian's work was recently...
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.

Woman to Watch: Kate Longmaid

Posted: July 16, 2010
Category: Nmwa Exhibitions
In conjunction with Body of Work: New Perspectives on Figurative Painting, Broad Strokes is proud to spotlight the artists featured in Women to Watch. Select portraitists will be commenting on...
Two large paintings hang on a lavender wall. In the first, a dark-skinned woman stands in a white landscape, and in the other, a fence, house, and large birds float on a solid turquoise background. On the other white wall is an abstract multimedia work with houses, cakes, and patterns.

SOLO Spotlight: Joyce Kozloff

Posted: July 9, 2010
Category: Nmwa Exhibitions
If I could be an artist, I would want to be Joyce Kozloff. Her work draws on maps, illuminations, historical manuscripts, and website imagery, always delighting the eye with decorative...
A view of a gallery space with several colorful works hanging on the walls.

SOLO Spotlight: Ida Applebroog

Posted: June 30, 2010
Category: Nmwa Exhibitions
Ida Applebroog’s simplified figures in comic-like settings wrapped in social criticism make her artwork easily identifiable. The Collaborative Print: Works from SOLO Impression features two of Applebroog’s prints, on view...

Master Collaborator: Judith Solodkin

Posted: June 22, 2010
Category: Nmwa Exhibitions
Founder and Master Printer Judith Solodkin established the New York print shop, SOLO Impression Inc., in 1975. Without intending to, she has become a great supporter of women in the...
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.

Contemporary Sculpture Dances Down New York Avenue

Posted: March 15, 2010
Category: Nmwa Exhibitions
Learn more about Niki de Saint Phalle, who is known for large scale sculptures and whose work is featured in the NMWA collection.
Three abstract outdoor sculptures of voluptuous figures covered in bright patterns and dancing with outstretched arms.
Learn more about artist Antoinette Bouzonnet Stella, whose work Plate 1 from "L'Entree de l'Empereur Sigismond a Mantoue" (1675) is featured in the NMWA collection.
A black-and-white, horizontal print depicts multiple Roman-style male figures on horseback. They hold weapons or brass musical instruments and process, somewhat chaotically, towards the viewer's right.