Opening Reception: Wednesday, April 10th, 6-8pm
RSVP@penandbrush.org
Women's Work: Art & Activism in the 21st Century
Pen + Brush
29 East 22nd Street, NY, NY 10010
April 11 - August 2, 2019
In continuation of a dynamic year of programming for Pen + Brush’s 125th Anniversary, the non-profit is pleased to present Women’s Work: Art & Activism in the 21st Century opening April 10th. This exhibition highlights work by a prolifically international group of five women artists representing Iraq, Cuba, Guyana, Madagascar, and the U.S., curated by NYU’s Assistant Professor of Art & Public Policy and OF NOTE magazine founder, Grace Aneiza Ali.
Women’s Work departs from the Oxford Dictionary’s definition of women’s work as “traditionally and historically undertaken by women, especially tasks of a domestic nature such as cooking, needlework, and child rearing.” Despite the last century of groundbreaking, audacious change and catalysts, the dictionary still has not caught up with the world. The exhibition is grounded in the belief that all women’s work, within the realm of the domestic and beyond, is valuable. However, it acknowledges that the definition has rightly evolved, and must continue to do so across centuries and geographies.
Women’s Work presents five global contemporary artists-activists who continue to expand the definition of women’s work and expose its complexity, nuance, and ever-evolving nature. Through dynamic art practices, they generously lend their intelligence, thoughtfulness, artistry and agency to reimagine women’s work as arts activism in the twenty-first century.
Artists
Sama Alshaibi, María Magdalena Campos-Pons, Miora Rajaonary, Suchitra Mattai, Ming Smith
Curator
Grace Aneiza Ali
Catalogue Essay Contributions
Tao Leigh Goffe, Erin Haney, Isabella Ellaheh Hughes, Marisa Lerer, Miriam Romais