Ursula von Rydingsvard: The Contour of Feeling presents the artist’s monumental cedar wood sculptures alongside newer works for the first time.
![A large cedar and paint sculpture installed against a white wall.](https://nmwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/OCEAN-VOICES-1-aspect-ratio-2.25x1-1.jpg)
Impress your friends with five fast facts about artist Judy Chicago (b. 1939), who will celebrate her 80th birthday on July 20.
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Impress your friends with five fast facts about artist Mildred Thompson (1936–2003), whose work is on view in NMWA’s collection galleries.
![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.](https://nmwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/2018.19-scaled-aspect-ratio-2.25x1.jpg)
Martine Gutierrez plays with concepts drawn from art history and pop culture; NPR interviews Jill Soloway; A retrospective of the work of Hilma af Klint is on view at the...
![A black-and-white photograph of a light-skinned adult woman holding a newspaper with news about World War II. She wears a coat and her short, curly hair is caught in the wind.](https://nmwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/1997.181-2-aspect-ratio-2.25x1.png)
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.](https://nmwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Magnetic-Fields-Exhibition_11_22080-aspect-ratio-2.25-1-700x330.jpg)
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.](https://nmwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/2018.19-1-aspect-ratio-2.25-1-700x330.jpg)