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Mar 25, 2016 · In my post, I cover 5 incredible women artists of color: Augusta Savage, Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, Carmen Lomas Garza, Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian, and Yayoi Kusama. Each entry has images of the artwork or a video of the artist talking about her work.
Emily Alesandrini is a writer, curator, advocate, and culture enthusiast living and working in New York. Her research concerns contemporary representations of race and gender with a particular focus on issues of displacement, marginalization, and the body in art by women and artists of color. She has contributed to exhibition planning and ...
Against all odds, seven determined female pioneers redefined the New York gallery scene over the past five decades. Diane Solway pays tribute to the art world’s grandes dames.
- Brenda Goodman @Brengoodman
- Samira Abbassy @Samiraabbassy
- Le’Andra Leseur
- Dominique Fung @Dominiquefung
- Cristina Banban @Cristina_Banban
- Katherine Bradford @Kathebradford
- Yevgeniya Baras @Yevgeniya.Baras
- Lola Flash @Flash9
Brenda Goodman is a New York state-based artist who has been painting for more than fifty years. Originally born in Detroit, Michigan, she began her career in the early 1960s by attending a local art school and then becoming a part of the legendary Cass Corridor movement. This movement of 1960s-1970s ushered a renaissance in the contemporary art sc...
Samira Abbassy is an Iranian-born and New York City-based figurative painter who is mostrecognized for her series of oil and gesso paintings of humans, animals, and war. Abbassy’sfamily moved to the United Kingdom when she was just two years old. She received her BFAfrom the Canterbury College of Art and moved to New York City in 1987 In 1992, shec...
Le’Andra LeSeur is an interdisciplinary artist born in the Bronx, NY and currently based in Jersey City, NJ. By using video installation, photography, painting, and performance, LeSeur celebrates black female identity contemplating the dominating system that has consistently rendered a whole race invisible. She creates layers of meaning by incorpor...
Dominique Fung is a figurative painter who lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. She received her BAA from Sheridan College Institute of Technology in Toronto, Canada. Fung’s work is marked by a unique visual language using Oriental motifs inspired by her Chinese heritage. Her style is a visual intersection between Surrealism and seventeen-century...
Cristina BanBan is a Spanish artist who currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. Banban received her BA in Fine Arts from the University of Barcelona in Barcelona, Spain. Inspired by neoclassicism, pop art, anime BanBan portrays oversized, strong, playful, sensual female bodies as a central subject matter in her work. While some features, l...
Katherine Bradford began her painting career in the early 1970s. While she was originally born in New York City, she moved to Maine with her family, raising twins. However, her life took a drastic turn in 1979 when she moved back to New York City as a single mother. Bradford’s desire to be closer to the contemporary art community led her to pursue ...
Yevgeniya Baras is an artist who lives and works in Long Island City, NY. Baras has a BA and MS from the University of Pennsylvania (2003) and an MFA in Painting and Drawing from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2007). Alongside the post-Soviet Jewish population, Baras’ family fled her native Russia two years after the collapse of the So...
Lola Flash is a photographer based in New York City. “Working at the forefront of genderqueer visual politics for more than three decades, photographer Lola Flash’s work challenges stereotypes and gender, sexual, and racial preconceptions,” Flash talks about her work in the artist statement. The majority of her oeuvre has a deep focus on social act...
Mar 4, 2021 · Working as an independent curator before becoming the curator in chief at the Elizabeth A.Sackler Center for Feminist Art at the Brooklyn Museum, Catherine Morris researches how feminism shaped art and our perceptions.
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Aug 8, 2018 · For decades the country’s mainstream art museums have excluded people of color — from their top leadership to the curators who create shows to the artists they display on their walls.
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Feb 14, 2024 · From found-material sculptors to hyperrealist painters, these are a few of the New York artists at the forefront of the art scene today.
