Magnetic Fields

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.
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Artist Spotlight: Mildred Thompson

Posted: December 5, 2017
Category: Magnetic Fields
Magnetic Fields: Expanding American Abstraction, 1960s to Today places abstract works by multiple generations of black women artists in context with one another—and within the larger history of abstract art—for...
An installation shot of a gallery with a large painting hanging on the wall. 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.

Artist Spotlight: Shinique Smith

Posted: November 29, 2017
Category: Magnetic Fields
Magnetic Fields: Expanding American Abstraction, 1960s to Today places abstract works by multiple generations of black women artists in context with one another—and within the larger history of abstract art—for...
An installation shot of a gallery with a large square sculpture in the middle of the room. The square sculpture is as tall as person and the surface is covered in textiles, possibly shirts, dyed in different colors. On top, the textiles are white, and they slowly fade into a lilac and blue hue. The change of color has an ombre-effect.

Artist Spotlight: Nanette Carter

Posted: November 16, 2017
Category: Magnetic Fields
Magnetic Fields: Expanding American Abstraction, 1960s to Today places abstract works by multiple generations of black women artists in context with one another—and within the larger history of abstract art—for...
A woman with a medium-dark skin tone and long, dark hair stands in a gallery before a couple of people next to an art piece hanging on the wall. The art piece is a structure made of a variety of shapes stacked on top of each other in different colors and with different textures. The brushstrokes are visible, giving the piece an interesting texture. The colors are vibrant against the white background.

Artist Spotlight: Maren Hassinger

Posted: November 9, 2017
Category: Magnetic Fields
Magnetic Fields: Expanding American Abstraction, 1960s to Today places abstract works by multiple generations of black women artists in context with one another—and within the larger history of abstract art—for...
A woman with a light skin tone and gray, short hair is standing in a gallery space next to a sculpture lying on the ground. The sculpture is a large, round shape, and a smaller, round ball of newspapers folded into thin tubes and tied together. The many tubes tied together look like brushes made from newspaper. They are black and white with some pops of color in between.

Spotlight: Mary Lovelace O’Neal

Posted: October 17, 2017
Category: Magnetic Fields
Magnetic Fields: Expanding American Abstraction, 1960s to Today places abstract works by multiple generations of black women artists in context with one another—and within the larger history of abstract art—for...
A view of a gallery with white walls and a gray floor. A large canvas with colorful brushstrokes takes up almost the entire wall. On a gray background, brushstrokes in pink, red, blue, and brown take up half of the canvas, while the other half remains gray.

American Abstraction: Expanded

Posted: October 4, 2017
Category: Magnetic Fields
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.