Women artists yeah!

Brainstormers is amazing. From their website: "Brainstormers is an art collective that, through public performance, exhibition, publication, internet, and video, has forced discussion on a topic that most would rather avoid: gross gender inequities in the contemporary New York Art World." Check out their current action/project here.

Another item of note: Huff Po's Women Artists Sweep Best of 2010 NYC Arts.

In honor of Louise Bourgeois

Louise Bourgeois, photo: Pompidou Center

"Everywhere in the modern world there is neglect, the need to be recognized, which is not satisfied. Art is a way of recognizing oneself, which is why it will always be modern."

"It is a great privilege to be able to work with, and I suppose work off, my feelings through sculpture."

womanmade

I really enjoyed the "Woman Made" show at the Torpedo Factory's Target Gallery. The show just closed, but you can see the artwork online. Some of my favorites:

Melanie Lowrance, Gossip

Natalie Vega-Forero, Hogar-Home

On the subject of feminist art and art made by women, I highly recommend the book Global Feminisms, with the disclaimer that while I've pored carefully over the images, I've only read a fraction of the text so far.

Catherine Opie