Patricia Piccinini

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.

The Female Form through Female Eyes

Posted: March 12, 2015
Category: Patricia Piccinini
Nearly 300 years apart, Italian artist Artemisia Gentileschi (1593–1656) and French artist Suzanne Valadon (1865–1938) both used their perspectives as women to capture the power and complexity of the female...
Against a dark black and brown background, a light skinned woman in a red dress with wavy reddish-brown hair wears a white cloth and gold crown around her head. Her right hand clutches a palm while her left grazes a spiked breaking wheel. She stares straight at the viewer.

Lynda Benglis & Maya Lin: Spookily Impressive Artists

Posted: October 24, 2014
Category: Patricia Piccinini
Born October 25, 1941, Lynda Benglis first gained renown for her poured-latex sculptures. The bright splashes of color departed from—but also engaged with—the restrained minimalist art popular with critics and...
A wall-mounted sculpture made of metal convincingly resembles an elaborate knot of twisted, rolled, and tied silver and copper fabrics. Pleated ends radiate at different angles from the tangled, coppery center and project out from the wall into the viewer’s space.

Shedding Light: A Curator’s Perspective on Anna Ancher

Posted: May 9, 2013
Category: Patricia Piccinini
"If you ask Danes to name a woman artist, they will say Anna Ancher," declared Skagens Museum curator Mette Bøgh Jensen in an enlightening gallery talk of A World Apart:...
Expressionist painting of a man and two women wearing white headscarves walking through a waist-high wheat field. The man and the woman following in the back carry scythes to cut the wheat.

Daring Danish Designer Nanna Ditzel (Part 2 of 2)

Posted: May 2, 2013
Category: Patricia Piccinini
In honor of A World Apart: Anna Ancher and the Skagen Art Colony, on view through May 12, 2013, we’re researching other delightful, innovative, and interesting Danish women in the...
View of a gallery space. On a white wall, it says "A World Apart: Anna Ancher and the Skagen Art Colony."

Daring Danish Designer Nanna Ditzel (Part 1 of 2)

Posted: May 1, 2013
Category: Patricia Piccinini
In honor of A World Apart: Anna Ancher and the Skagen Art Colony, on view through May 12, 2013, we’re researching other delightful, innovative, and interesting Danish women in the...
View of a gallery space. On a white wall, it says "A World Apart: Anna Ancher and the Skagen Art Colony."

Happy Birthday, Leonora Carrington!

Posted: April 5, 2013
Category: Patricia Piccinini
The art of Leonora Carrington (1917–2011) belongs to “a magical realm between sleep and waking, conscious and unconscious.”¹ On April 6, 2013, we celebrate the enchanting artist on what would have been her...
Eerie figures walk, float, swim and stand in a pastoral landscape. A grey house sits next to a small body of water, the lawn decorated with small shrubs and trees. A pair, one dressed and one nude, pet a stripped animal as ghostly figures move through the foreground.

A Harmony of Opposites: Jiha Moon’s Floating Landscapes

Posted: January 23, 2013
Category: Patricia Piccinini
As a “cartographer of cultures,” Jiha Moon strives to be “a visual interpreter of the mixed cultural worlds of [her] generation.” The Atlanta-based artist creates kaleidoscopic works of art that...
Abstract painting features translucent, wave-like turquoise, aquamarine, and fuchsia washes mingled with red lines and hard-edged, matte-pink sinuous shapes bounded by blue and green scales. Other details resolve into a human hand, tree-sprigged mountains, and craggy branches.

18th- and 19th-century Jet-setters

Posted: July 24, 2012
Category: Patricia Piccinini
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.

Happy Birthday, Judy Chicago!

Posted: July 20, 2012
Category: Patricia Piccinini
Her vision is to “move beyond the construct of femininity into the un-gendered and free space that should be available for every human being”; her means of achieving it is...
Four hard-edged octagons, each divided into eight pie-slice shapes painted red, pink, orange, yellow, olive green, blue, violet, or lavender, occupy a square, white background. Dark at the wide and narrow ends of each wedge, the hues create the illusion of 3-dimensional forms.

Happy 105th Birthday, Frida Kahlo!

Posted: July 6, 2012
Category: Patricia Piccinini
Today, on her 105th birthday, we celebrate Frida Kahlo, whose 143 finished paintings focused on Mexican culture, gender identity, social justice, and often pain. Born on July 6, 1907, to...
A letter, opening with "Mamacita Linda," written in dark ink on a yellowed sheet of paper.