Pressing Ideas: Fifty Years Of Women’s Lithographs From Tamarind

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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Jaune Quick-to-See Smith: Harbinger, Mediator, and Bridge Builder

Posted: September 29, 2011
Category: Pressing Ideas: Fifty Years Of Women’s Lithographs From Tamarind
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith uses her ancestry and her passion for Indigenous rights to create powerful images.
A horizontal canvas combines collaged paper, such as a scrap of a U.S. map, comic strip, and pictographs; cloth swatches; scrawled and dripped paint; and phrases like “It takes hard work to keep racism alive” and “Oh! Zone.” The work’s title appears in red paint right of center.

Nature and Continuity in Prints by Emmi Whitehorse

Posted: September 6, 2011
Category: Pressing Ideas: Fifty Years Of Women’s Lithographs From Tamarind
Explore how Emmi Whitehorse's artworks illustrate a landscape over time and her relationship to nature.
Goldenrod yellow paint smudged across white paper in layers, creating different levels of opacity. Vertical red and black lines, and a few red and black shape outlines, mostly of tall ovals, are painted sporadically on the paper.

Ynez Johnston's Lively and Evocative Compositions

Posted: August 24, 2011
Category: Pressing Ideas: Fifty Years Of Women’s Lithographs From Tamarind
Ynez Johnston’s works throw viewers into a world that blends the ancient with the modern.
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.

Artist Spotlight: Ruth Asawa

Posted: August 9, 2011
Category: Pressing Ideas: Fifty Years Of Women’s Lithographs From Tamarind
Ruth Asawa (b. January 24, 1926) had no ordinary childhood. During World War II, at the age of 16, Asawa and the rest of her family were taken from their...
A black-and-white photograph of Ruth Asawa holding one of her large, wire crochet sculptures, draped over her shoulder and in both hands. She is a light-skinned, Asian, adult woman with black hair and blunt bangs.

Tamarind Artist Spotlight: The Eclectic, Energetic Kiki Smith

Posted: August 1, 2011
Category: Pressing Ideas: Fifty Years Of Women’s Lithographs From Tamarind
The career of Kiki Smith can best be described as eclectic. Born in 1954, her earliest and most constant exposure to art was through the work of her father, sculptor...
A deep auburn-colored octopus hovers above a larger, black spider with fuzzy legs, fangs, and blue eyes against a white background. There is a small white and yellow flower on the spider’s thorax and two red dots on each side of the flower.