Seductive Subversion: Women Pop Artists, 1958–1968
October 15, 2010–January 9, 2011After Philadelphia ” Seductive Subversion: Women Pop Artists, 1958–1968″ is now presented in New York at the Brooklyn Museum.
This large-scale exhibition examines the impact of women artists on the traditionally male-dominated field of Pop art. It reconsiders the narrow definition of the Pop art movement and reevaluates its critical reception. In recovering important female artists, the show expands the canon to reflect more accurately the women working internationally during this period. The exhibition features more than fifty artworks by Evelyne Axell, Chryssa, Niki de Saint Phalle, Rosalyn Drexler, Marisol, Yayoi Kusama, Jann Haworth, Vija Celmins, Lee Lozano, Marjorie Strider, Idelle Weber, and Joyce Wieland, among others.
Two major Evelyne Axell works – different from the Philadelphia exhibition – are presented in this New York exhibition; “Cercle vicieux rouge” and “Le viol d’Ingres par Axell”.
Seductive Subversion: Women Pop Artists, 1958–1968 was organized by Sid Sachs for the Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery of The University of the Arts, Philadelphia. The Brooklyn Museum presentation is organized by Catherine Morris, Curator of the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, Brooklyn Museum.
Panel Discussion: “So Different, So Appealing: Women and the Pop Art Movement”
Saturday, October 30, 2010
2–4 p.m.Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Auditorium, 3rd Floor
For more than forty years, Pop art has been defined and dominated by a small group of Anglo-American male artists. This panel discussion, in conjunction with the exhibition Seductive Subversion: Women Pop Artists, 1958–1968, expands this narrow definition and re-evaluates the critical reception of Pop art. Moderated by Catherine Morris, Curator of the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, the panel includes Sid Sachs, Director of Exhibitions, Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery, the University of the Arts, Philadelphia, and co-curator of Seductive Subversion at the University of the Arts; Kalliopi Minioudaki, art historian and co-curator of the exhibition at the University of the Arts; and artists from the exhibition.
Brooklyn Museum
Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art and Morris A. and Meyer Schapiro Wing,4th Floor,
200 Eastern Parkway
Brooklyn, New York 11238-6052
