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Flights and Frights of Fancy
Posted: September 8, 2015
Category: Women And Nature
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.

Merian’s Daughters: Monika E. de Vries Gohlke, Amy Lamb, and Janaina Tschäpe
Posted: September 1, 2015
Category: Women And Nature
Three artists credit groundbreaking 17th-century artist and scientist Maria Sibylla Merian, whose work is also on view in Super Natural, as a major influence on their performances, photography, videos, and...
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.

Spotlight: Rachel Sussman
Posted: August 31, 2015
Category: Women And Nature
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.

Spotlight: Jiha Moon
Posted: August 24, 2015
Category: Women And Nature
Jiha Moon is known for her blend of traditional materials and pop culture iconography. Like a “cartographer of cultures,” Moon is interested in creating images that can be read differently...
A round, ceramic vessel glazed unevenly in glossy celadon has a bulging body incised with abstract shapes. Matte turquoise glaze dribbling down from the rim obscures portions of the pale green and fully coats one of two peach-shaped orbs projecting from either side of the neck.

5 Fast Facts: Patricia Piccinini
Posted: August 19, 2015
Category: Women And Nature
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.

5 Questions with Mary Tsiongas
Posted: August 17, 2015
Category: Women And Nature
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.

5 Questions with Lara Shipley
Posted: August 10, 2015
Category: Women And Nature
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.

5 Questions with Françoise Pétrovitch
Posted: August 3, 2015
Category: Women And Nature
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.

Victorian Decadence & Visual Decay
Posted: July 22, 2015
Category: Women And Nature
Petah Coyne and Polly Morgan are influenced by the art of Louise Bourgeois and Eva Hesse. Both artists bring forth otherworldly creations through extremely labor and time intensive processes. The...
Myriad layers of melted pink and white wax encrust and obscure the metal armature for this abstract sculpture, which hangs from satin-wrapped chains. Its color and shape, as well as the bumpy, lacy texture, evoke a frilly tutu, lavishly frosted wedding cake, or coral accretions.

5 Questions with Andrea Lira
Posted: July 20, 2015
Category: Women And Nature
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.