Installation view, Expanding Abstraction: New England Women Painters, 1950 to Now, deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA. Photograph by Clements Photography and Design, Boston.
This exhibition presents a vital yet lesser-known history of abstract painting in New England by showcasing the work of women painters with strong connections to the region. Despite their relative exclusion from mainstream and male-dominated conversations on postwar abstraction, these artists have made significant contributions to the field. Spanning from the 1950s to the present, the works on view in the exhibition expand traditions of abstract painting and testify to the artists’ unwavering productivity and creative innovation.
Drawn primarily from deCordova’s permanent collection, this survey explores diverse techniques, processes, and concepts. The exhibition and interpretation also emphasizes the artists’ contributions, connections, and reception within New England. Expanding Abstraction reveals the complexities of painting in the region and lays the foundation for a more inclusive understanding of abstraction through the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.
Avigdor Arikha (1929 - 2010); Georg Baselitz (1938); Ross Bleckner (1949); Janet Boulton; Bernard Chaet (1924 - 2012); Francesco Clemente (1952); Marlène Dumas (1953); Garth Evans (1934); Janet Fish (1938); Andrew Forge (1923 - 2002); Suzan Frecon (1941); Jacqueline Gourevitch (1933); Al Held (1928 - 2005); Donald Holden (1931); Ray Kass; Ken Kiff (1935); Per Kirkeby (1938); Markus Lüpertz (1941); Melissa Meyer (1947); Malcolm Morley (1931 - 2018); Stephen Mueller (1947 - 2011); Graham Nickson (1946); Senam Okudzeto; Philip Pearlstein (1924 - 2022); Elizabeth Peyton (1965); Sylvia Plimack Mangold (1938); Robert Rauschenberg (1925 - 2008); Paul Resika (1928); Gerhard Richter (1932); Dorothea Rockburne (1932); David Salle (1952); Sean Scully (1945); Susan Louise Shatter (1943); Shahzia Sikander (1969); Eve Sonneman (1946); Ena Swansea (1966); Fulvio Testa; Wayne Thiebaud (1920 - 2021); William Tillyer (1938); Patricia Tobacco Forrester (1940);
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Alice Adams (1930); William Allan (1936); Terry Allen (1943); Carl Andre (1935 - 2024); Jo Baer (1929); Malcolm Bailey (1947); John Baldessari (1931); Thomas Bang (1938); Paula Barr (1945); Joel Bass (1942); Robert A. Bechtle (1932); Lynda Benglis (1941); Fletcher Benton (1931 - 2019); Anthony Berlant (1941); Jake Berthot (1939 - 2014); Nathalie Bieser (1948); Ronald Bladen (1918 - 1988); Louise Bourgeois (1911 - 2010); Frank Bowling (1936); James W. Boynton (1928); Peter Bradley (1939); Roger Brown (1941 - 1997); Howard Buchwald (1943); Peter Campus (1937); Cynthia Carlson (1942); John Chamberlain (1927 - 2011); Dan Christensen (1942 - 2007); Ed Clark (1926 - 2019); John Clem Clarke (1937); Arthur Cohen (1945); Joyce Cole (1939); Jaime Davidovich (1936 - 2016); Gene Davis (1920 - 1985); S. A. [Stephen A.] Davis (1945); Roy DeForest (1930 - 2007); Stuart Diamond (1942); David Diao (1943); Guy Dill (1946); Jim Dine (1935); John Duff (1943); Loretta Dunkelman (1937); Robert [Bob] Duran (1938 - 2005); Jimmy Ernst (1920 - 1984); Frederick Eversley (1941); Charles Fahlen (1939); Jackie Ferrara (1929); Rafael Ferrer (1933); Louise Fishman (1939 - 2021); Sherron Francis (1940); Mary Frank (1933); Helen Frankenthaler (1928 - 2011); Ernest Frazier (1942); Richard Friedberg (1943); Gregory Joseph Gillespie (1936 - 2000); Carl Gliko (1941); Michael Goldberg (1924 - 2007); Sidney Goodman (1936 - 2013); Robert Gordy (1933); Adolph Gottlieb (1903 - 1974); Jacqueline Gourevitch (1933); Nancy Graves (1939 - 1995); Stephen Greene (1917 - 1999); Ken Greenleaf (1945); Mary Grigoriadis (1942); Nancy Grossman (1940); Robert Grosvenor (1937); Peter Gutkin (1944); Ira Joel Haber (1947); Michael David Hall (1941); Duane Hanson (1925 - 1996); Randy Hardy (1944); Robert Hartman (1926); Joseph Haske (1945); Al Held (1928 - 2005); Gilah Yelin Hirsch (1944); Will Horwitt (1934); Gary Hudson (1936); Joel Janowitz (1945); Neil Jenney (1945); Alfred Julius Jensen (1903 - 1981); Luis Jiminez (1940); Jasper Johns (1930); Buffie Johnson (1912 - 2006); Lester F. Johnson (1919 - 2010); Joan Jonas (1936); Donald Judd (1928 - 1994); Alex Katz (1927); Lila Katzen (1932 - 1998); Jane A. Kaufman (1938); Ellsworth Kelly (1923 - 2015); Lyman Kipp (1929 - 2014); Harriet Korman (1947); Lee Krasner (1908 - 1984); Barbara Kruger (1945); Nicholas Krushenick (1929 - 1999); Frances Kuehn (1943); Kay Kurt (1944); Ronnie Landfield (1947); Richard Landry (1938); Alfred Leslie (1927); Mon Levinson (1926); Alexander Liberman (1912 - 1999); Roy Lichtenstein (1923 - 1997); Robert Lawrance Lobe (1945); Al [Alvin D.] Loving (1935 - 2005); Brice Marden (1938 - 2023); John Mason (1927); Louisa Matthíasdóttir (1917 - 2000); Dennis McCarthy (1935); Ann McCoy (1946); David McManaway (1927); Clement Meadmore (1929); Brenda Miller (1941); Richard McDermott Miller (1922 - 2004); Mary Miss (1944); Joan Mitchell (1925 - 1992); Richard Mock (1944 - 2006); Joan Moment (1938); Robert Morris (1931 - 2018); Ree Morton (1936 - 1977); Robert Moskowitz (1935); Robert Motherwell (1915 - 1991); Catherine Murphy (1946); Elizabeth Murray (1940 - 2007); Robert Murray (1936); Forrest [Frosty] Myers (1941); Louise Nevelson (1899 - 1988); Kenneth Noland (1924 - 2010); Richard Nonas (1936); David Novros (1941); Jim Nutt (1938); Kenzō Okada (1902 - 1982); Jules Olitski (1922 - 2007); William Omwake (1946); George Earl Ortman (1926 - 2015); Raymond Parker (1922 - 1990); Edward Paschke (1939 - 2004); Philip Pearlstein (1924 - 2022); Joel Perlman (1943); Irving Pellin (1934); William Pettet (1942); Larry Poons (1937); Katherine Porter (1941); Joanna Pousette-Dart (1947); Richard Pousette-Dart (1916 - 1992); Robert Povlich (1937); Harvey Quaytman (1937); Joseph Raffael (1933); Christina Ramberg (1946 - 1995); Robert Rauschenberg (1925 - 2008); Peter Reginato (1945); James Reineking (1937 - 2018); Milton Resnick (1917 - 2004); Tony Robbin (1943); Dorothea Rockburne (1932); Robert Rohm (1934); Bernard J. [Tony] Rosenthal (1914 - 2009); Edwin Ruda (1922 - 2014); Raymond Saunders (1934); Charles Leon Schucker (1908 - 1998); William Schwedler (1942); Arden Scott (1938); John Seery (1941); Richard Serra (1938 - 2024); Alan Shields (1944 - 2005); Nate Shiner (1944); Edwin Bennett Shostak (1941); Alan Siegel (1938); Louis Bassi Siegriest (1899 - 1989); Site, Inc. (1969); Arlene Slavin (1942); Susan Smith (1934); Tony Smith (1912 - 1980); Robert Smithson (1938 - 1973); Kenneth D. Snelson (1927 - 2016); Joan Snyder (1940); Jack Sonenberg (1925); Keith Sonnier (1941 - 2020); Raphaël Soyer (1899 - 1987); Christopher Sproat (1945); Robert [Bob] Stanley (1932 - 1997); Jim Starrett (1937); Michael Steiner (1945); Pat [Iris Patricia Sukoneck] Steir (1940); Frank Stella (1936); Gary Stephan (1942); Sylvia Stone (1928); George Sugarman (1912 - 1999); Andrew Tavarelli (1942); Gary Tenenbaum (1943); Edgar Tolson (1904 - 1984); George Trakas (1944); Anne Truitt (1921 - 2004); Susan Tunick (1946); Cy Twombly (1928 - 2011); Jack Tworkov (1900 - 1982); Nancy van Deren (1944); Lester van Winkle (1944); Robert Wade (1943); Jeffrey Way (1942); William Wegman (1943); Neil Welliver (1929 - 2005); Lynton Wells (1940); Salle Werner (1939); Tom Wesselmann (1931 - 2004); H.C. [Horace Clifford] Westermann (1922 - 1981); Jay Wholley (1942); William Thomas Wiley (1937); Hannah Wilke (1940 - 1993); Neil Williams (1934 - 1988); Christopher Mallory Wilmarth (1943 - 1987); Jacqueline Winsor (1941); Philip Wofford (1935); Nina Yankowitz (1946); Adja Yunkers (1900 - 1983); Robert S. Zakanitch (1935); Larry [Lawrence] Zox (1936); Ludwig Sander (1906 - 1975); William R. Geis III (1940); Bill Bollinger (1939 - 1988);
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