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ON BALANCE at Art Cake

on wall l to r: Corey Postiglione, Stephen Westfall, Susan Smith, Carl Hazelwood, on floor: Cris Gianakos

ON BALANCE
New work by American Abstract Artists
Curated by Mary Birmingham

April 15–May 14

Art Cake
214 40th St, Brooklyn, NY 11232
Gallery Hours: Fri/Sat/Sun Noon–6p

Featured Artists:
Alice Adams, Liz Ainslie, Steven Alexander, Emily Berger, Jeffrey Bishop, Susan Bonfils, Marvin Brown, Jacob Cartwright, James Clark, Gabriele Evertz, Laurie Fendrich, Joanne Freeman, Cris Gianakos, Gary Golkin, Gail Gregg, James Gross, Lynne Harlow, Carl E. Hazlewood, Mara Held, Pinkney Herbert, Daniel G. Hill, Gilbert Hsiao, Rhia Hurt, Julian Jackson, James Juszczyk, Cecily Kahn, Marthe Keller, Iona Kleinhaut, Victor Kord, Jane Logemann, Stephen Maine, Nancy Manter, Joanne Mattera, Creighton Michael, Manfred Mohr, Judith Murray, Lisa Nanni, Jim Osman, Rob de Oude, John Phillips, Corey Postiglione, Lucio Pozzi, Raquel Rabinovich, Ce Roser, Irene Rousseau, Cordy Ryman, Lorenza Sannai, Karen Schifano, Mary Schiliro, Claire Seidl, Edward Shalala, Susan Smith, Melissa Staiger, Li Trincere, Kim Uchiyama, Don Voisine, Stephen Westfall, Jeanne Wilkinson, Mark Williams, Thornton Willis, Patricia Zarate, Nola Zirin

More info on the exhibition page


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Blurring Boundaries: The Women of AAA at LSU Museum of Art

Blurring Boundaries: The Women Of AAA, 1936–present
Curated by Rebecca DiGiovanna

LSU Museum of Art,Baton Rouge, LA
July 14, 2022 – October 23, 2022

The exhibition is touring via International Art & Artists (IA&A) See venues here.

For more information, see the Exhibition page.


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AAA: Digital Prints, 2012–2019

American Abstract Artists: Digital Prints, 2012–2019

Herron School of Art + Architecture
Indianapolis, Ind.
January–March 2022

This exhibition includes the 75th Anniversary Print Portfolio and the 2019 suite of Digital Monoprints.
A pdf of the catalogue of the 75th Anniversary Print Portfolio can be viewed here.
To flip through the pages of the catalogue at issuu.com click here.
A pdf of the catalogue of the American Abstract Artists: Digital Monoprints 2019 can be viewed here
To flip through the pages of the catalogue at issuu.com click here.

 


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Blurring Boundaries: The Women of AAA at The Baker Museum

Blurring Boundaries: The Women Of AAA, 1936–present
Curated by Rebecca DiGiovanna

The Baker Museum, Naples, Florida, March 25, 2021 – July 25, 2021

The Baker Museum website here

The exhibition is touring via International Art & Artists (IA&A) See venues here.

For more information, PDF of catalogue, installation shots, and link to the curator’s talk, go to the Exhibition page.


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Stripes—the whole idea

Stripes—the whole idea
Curated by Edith Newhall

Featuring works by:
Gabriele Evertz, James Juszczyk, Joanne Mattera, Don Porcaro, Mary Schiliro, Melissa Staiger, & Kim Uchiyama

Stripes is the second in a series of online exhibitions presented by American Abstract Artists. The show examines the history and endless possibilities of the stripe in abstract art.

Edith Newhall is a writer, independent curator, and art critic for the Philadelphia Inquirer.

View the online exhibition here.


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Groundings—dialogues between contemporary and historic members of AAA

Groundings—dialogues between contemporary and historic members of American Abstract Artists
Curated by Jason Andrew

Featuring works by:
Alice Adams, Suzy Frelinghuysen, Iona Kleinhaut, Katinka Mann, Nancy Manter, Betty Parsons, Judith Rothschild, Edith Schloss, Esphyr Slobodkina, & Karen Schifano

Groundings examines the continuing legacy of American Abstract Artists by juxtaposing the works of historic and contemporary members of the organization. This online exhibition is the first of its kind for the group. Groundings is the initial installment in a series of three online shows, each developed by a different guest curator.

Jason Andrew is an independent curator and writer based in Brooklyn.

View the online exhibition here.


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Blurring Boundaries: The Women of AAA at South Bend Museum of Art

Blurring Boundaries: The Women Of AAA, 1936–present
Curated by Rebecca DiGiovanna

WARNER GALLERY, South Bend Museum of Art
South Bend, Indiana

October 17, 2020 – January 3, 2021

OPENING RECEPTION: October 16, 2020, 5 – 8:30 p.m

South Bend Museum of Art website here

The exhibition is touring via INTERNATIONAL ART & ARTISTS (IA&A)
See venues here.

For more information, PDF of catalogue, installation shots, and link to the curator’s talk, go to the Exhibition page.


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Uncharted: American Abstraction in the Information Age

Uncharted: American Abstraction in the Information Age
Emily Lowe Gallery
Hofstra University Museum of Art
112 Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY
January 26 – June 19, 2020

OPENING RECEPTION: Sunday, January 26, 2-5 p.m
A pdf of the exhibition catalog can be viewed and downloaded here.

With James O. Clark, John Goodyear, Lynne Harlow, Daniel G. Hill, Gilbert Hsiao, Irene Rousseau, James Seawright, and Patricia Zarate
Curated by Museum Acting Director and Chief Curator Karen T. Albert, this show features art by members of American Abstract Artists that collides with the worlds of science, math, and technology.

Location:
Emily Lowe Gallery
Behind Emily Lowe Hall, South Campus
Tuesday – Friday, 11 am – 4 pm, Saturday and Sunday, noon – 4 pm

Directions to Hofstra University Museum of Art: https://www.hofstra.edu/community/museum/museum_general.html


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AAA: Digital Prints, 2012–2019

American Abstract Artists: Digital Prints, 2012–2019

Transmitter Gallery 
1329 Willoughby Ave,
Brooklyn, NY 11237
January 3 – February 9, 2020

OPENING RECEPTION: Friday, January 3, 6-9pm

This exhibition includes the 75th Anniversary Print Portfolio and the 2019 suite of Digital Monoprints.
A pdf of the catalogue of the 75th Anniversary Print Portfolio can be viewed here.
To flip through the pages of the catalogue at issuu.com click here.
A pdf of the catalogue of the American Abstract Artists: Digital Monoprints 2019 can be viewed here
To flip through the pages of the catalogue at issuu.com click here.

 


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“Blurring Boundaries: The Women of AAA”

“Blurring Boundaries: The Women Of AAA, 1936–present”
Curated by Rebecca DiGiovanna


PANEL DISCUSSION
Beyond the Gendered Lens; From the AAA Exhibition, Blurring Boundaries, to a larger discussion of Women in Contemporary Art

Tuesday, December 3, 2019,  6 – 8pm
Pen and Brush
29 East 22nd Street
New York, NY, 10010
http://www.penandbrush.org/

PANELISTS:
Virginia AndersonCurator of American Art and Department Head of American Painting & Sculpture and Decorative Arts at the Baltimore Museum of Art, and curator of By Their Creative Force: American Women Modernists, currently on view at the Baltimore Museum of Art
Emily Berger, Artist and AAA Member
Rebecca DiGiovannacurator of the traveling exhibition, Blurring Boundaries: The Women of American Abstract Artists, 1936 – present

Creighton Michael, Artist and AAA Member
Nancy Princenthal, author of Agnes Martin: Her Life and Art, and Unspeakable Acts: Women, Art and Sexual Violence in the 1970’s
Karen Wilkinindependent curator and art critic, author of numerous publications on such artists as Katherine Bradford, Stuart Davis, Helen Frankenthaler and Hans Hofmann
MODERATOR:
Joanne Mattera, Artist and AAA Member

See the video of the Panel Discussion here on our Media Page

See Panelists’ biographies here

See further viewing and reading list from the Panel Discussion here

See Creighton Michael’s introductory presentation, A Brief History of American Abstract Artists and the Women Who Helped to Make it, here


CLARA M. EAGLE GALLERY, Murray State University
September 27 – November 1, 2018
Murray, Kentucky

EWING GALLERY, University of Tennessee at Knoxville
November 15 – December 10, 2018
Knoxville, Tennessee

The exhibition is touring via INTERNATIONAL ART & ARTISTS (IA&A)
See venues here.

For more information, text, images, and media, see the exhibition page.


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