Nevertheless She Persisted, recycled denim and clothing labels By Michèle Fandel Bonner . . Oceans I have a feeling that my boathas struck, down there in the depths,against a great thing. And nothinghappens! Nothing…Silence…Waves… –Nothing happens? Or has everything happened,and are we standing now, […]
Women artists
Dragons, Dalmatians and Dancing Gorillas
Hilma af Klint, from A Work on Flowers, Mosses and Lichen (© Stiftelsen Hilma af Klints Verk/Photo: Moderna Museet, Albin Dahlström) And while great achievement is rare and difficult at best, it is still rarer and more difficult if, while you work, you must at the same time wrestle with inner demons of self-doubt and […]
Not Stopping, Thank You
This is a reprise of a theme I have written about here before, but I can’t not revisit it again after having recently seen vibrant, extraordinary shows by women artists in their 70’s and 80’s. Many women artists who were shorted on the visibility and acknowledgements granted their male peers are making up for lost […]