Considering Female Abstractions

February 11 - May 21, 2023
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Considering Female Abstractions
"The joy of Considering Female Abstractions is to realize the fact that each artist's expression of their individual freedom and internal world is unique and delightful - even when techniques and styles overlap." - Darryl Ratcliff 

Considering Female Abstractions is a group show featuring abstract works by 16 cutting edge female artists. The paintings in this exhibition convey bold and brave color and line through a strong feminist lens. However, they do so using a complex methodology which utilizes flowing sinews and shapes that are simultaneously sharp, jagged, and smoothly curvilinear.

 

This group of female artists from around the world demonstrate that the vitality, expression, depth, nuance, and room for continued exploration and experimentation in abstract painting is alive and well. That the ability to freely express on canvas a huge variety of thoughts, feelings, and ideas still is revelatory compared to the lack of freedoms, social restrictions, tangible and unspoken barriers, danger, and violence that women experience in the real world. So the existence of these works, to demand and take up space, to confront and instruct the viewer to reflect on these artists' interior lives, to feel the things that they felt, is an empathetic and instructional gesture for the future.

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Press release

The Green Family Art Foundation is pleased to present Considering Female Abstractions, a group show featuring abstract paintings by 16 cutting edge female artists. The works in the exhibition convey bold and brave color and line through a strong feminist lens. However, they do so using a complex methodology which utilizes flowing sinews and shapes that are simultaneously sharp, jagged, and smoothly curvilinear. Considering Female Abstractions opens in the Spotlight Gallery on February 11, 2023 and remains on view until May 21, 2023.

 

Artists include:

Alicia Adamerovich

Andrea Marie Breiling

Yuan Fang

 Cassidy Putnam

Alia Ahmad

Grace Carney

Leelee Kimmel

 Ilana Savdie

Kate Barbee

 Li Hei Di  Shara Mays Austyn Weiner
Brianna Bass

Maryam Eivazi

 Francesca Mollett

Michaela Yearwood-Dan

A text by Darryl Ratcliff accompanies the exhibition.

 

About Darryl Ratcliff:

Darryl Ratcliff is an award-winning artist and poet with a writing and curatorial practice based in Dallas, TX whose work engages communities and mobilizes social issues. Ratcliff builds complex, collaborative, durational cultural projects that help tell true community narratives, promote civic engagement, and increase community health. 

Ratcliff is the founder of Gossypion Investments, a startup company that is evolving the role of culture in society. Gossy focuses on real estate development, cultural investments, and cultural consulting. Ratcliff, alongside Fred Villanueva, is also the co-founder of Ash Studios, a Black and Latinx artist-run space and social sculpture in South Dallas since 2012. 

Ratcliff is also an arts writer for The Dallas Morning News, covering the North Texas visual art scene. Ratcliff is a 2022 winner of the Rabkin Prize for visual arts journalism, a 2021-22 YBCA 10 Fellow, and 2022 host of SOCAP Global, the world’s largest conference for impact investing.

 

About the Green Family Art Foundation:

The Green Family Art Foundation is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization.

The foundation’s mission is to provide a venue for, make grants to museums for the benefit of, and educate others about contemporary artists we believe communicate important ideas that are relevant and discussion worthy today and in the future.

The exhibition is located at 2111 Flora Street, Suite 110, Dallas, TX 75201. Hours are Wednesday-Friday, 11am-5pm and Saturday-Sunday, 11am-6pm. Admission is free.

For press inquiries, please reach out to info@greenfamilyartfoundation.org or call 214-274-5656.

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