Women Sculptors

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5 Fast Facts: Petah Coyne

Posted: October 19, 2015
Category: Women Sculptors
Impress your friends with five fast facts about Petah Coyne, whose work is on view at NMWA.
A sculpture hangs in a dark gallery. The sculpture comprises layers of melted pink and white wax that form a dress-like shape hanging from satin-wrapped chains. Its color, shape, and bumpy, lacy texture, evoke a frilly tutu, lavishly frosted wedding cake, or coral.

5 Fast Facts: Patricia Piccinini

Posted: August 19, 2015
Category: Women Sculptors
Learn more about artist Patricia Piccinini, who is known for The Stags and whose work is featured in the NMWA collection.
A sculpture consists of two metallic-orange motor scooters manipulated to resemble male deer. Leather seats become haunches, dashboard dials resemble faces, and multiple rear-view mirrors morph into antlers. The serpentine, hybrid animal-machines appear to spar for dominance.

NMWA’s New York Avenue Sculpture Project: Magdalena Abakanowicz

Posted: June 20, 2014
Category: Women Sculptors
To honor Magdalena Abakanowicz on her 84th birthday, NMWA anticipates the upcoming public installation of her work on New York Avenue as the third artist in the New York Avenue...
Ten larger-than-life bronze sculptures of human bodies are installed in the middle of a city street. The bodies have no heads or arms, and are striding forward in five rows of two. While they are not naked, their wrinkled body-tight clothing makes no distinction between shirt and pants.

Louise Bourgeois: A Legend

Posted: June 4, 2010
Category: Women Sculptors
Louise Bourgeois’ life spanned nearly the entire twentieth century. A legend in her own time, she became part of the canon of art history, which has not been kind to...
Bronze sculpture of a spider on a white platform against a magenta background.

Niki de Saint Phalle: Her Work

Posted: April 5, 2010
Category: Women Sculptors
Learn more about Niki de Saint Phalle, who is known for sculptures of nanas and whose work is featured in the NMWA collection.

Artist Spotlight: Lynda Benglis

Posted: November 6, 2009
Category: Women Sculptors
Among NMWA's new acquisitions this year is a sculpture by the innovative Lynda Benglis. Often billed as a feminist artist, Benglis is media oriented, as she works in anything from...
A close-up of a silver, metal sculpture that appears to be tied in a giant knot with crisp folds in the metal sheets.