Women Artists in Louisiana, 1965-2010 July 17, 2010

The Historic New Orleans Collection and the New Orleans Museum of Art present the second installment of the two-part exhibition celebrating the accomplishments of Louisiana women artists. 'Women Artists in Louisiana, 1965-2010' is the seventh joint exhibition presented by the two museums. Featuring more than 40 paintings, sculptures, and decorative arts by 35 artists, the exhibition continues where the first installment, 'Women Artists in Louisiana, 1825-1965: A Place of Their Own,' paused, at the dawn of postmodernism. As artists began anew to question the purpose of art, there occurred greater freedom in artistic expression, particularly in painting. Painters experimented with the full range of early 20th-century trends: Dadaism, surrealism, symbolism, and abstract expressionism. Many artists explored representational subjects while others continued to focus on formal elements: form, line, color, shape, space. As artists found acceptance of a wider range of subject and approach, it became the norm to exhibit non-objective and representational work side-by-side. 'Women Artists in Louisiana,' 1965-2010 showcases a range of artists whose work reflects the changing world of art in this period. The exhibition acknowledges the accomplishments of artists whose reputations are well established locally and nationally, as well as those whose careers are still escalating, including Jacqueline Bishop, Lynda Benglis, Jane Nulty Bowman, Elizabeth Catlett, Lin Emery, Mignon Faget, Suzanne Fosberg, Joanne Greenberg, Angela Gregory, Shearly Grode, Ronna Harris, Gail Hood, Ann Hornback, Jacqueline Humphries, Ida Kohlmeyer, Carol Leake, Shirley Rabe Masinter, Chryl Savoy, Eugenie "Ersy" Schwartz, Helen Trivigno, Patricia Whitty, Margaret Witherspoon, Mildred Wohl, and Jesselyn Zurik.