Presso il CAAM di Los Angeles è in corso una mostra sulla presenza delle artiste di colore nella cultura americana degli anni 60-80.
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Focusing on the work of African American women artists, We Wanted a Revolution: Black Radical Women, 1965–85
examines the political, social, cultural, and aesthetic priorities of
women of color during the emergence of second-wave feminism. The
exhibition highlights the voices and experiences of women of
color—distinct from the primarily white, middle-class mainstream
feminist movement—in order to reorient conversations around race,
feminism, political action, art production, and art history in this
significant historical period.
Presenting a diverse group of artists and activists who lived and
worked at the intersections of avant-garde art worlds, radical political
movements, and profound social change, the exhibition features a wide
array of work, including conceptual, performance, film, and video art,
as well as photography, painting, sculpture, and printmaking.
The artists represented in the exhibition include Emma Amos, Camille
Billops, Kay Brown, Vivian E. Browne, Linda Goode Bryant, Beverly
Buchanan, Carole Byard, Elizabeth Catlett, Barbara Chase-Riboud, Ayoka
Chenzira, Christine Choy and Susan Robeson, Blondell Cummings, Julie
Dash, Pat Davis, Jeff Donaldson, Maren Hassinger, Janet Henry, Virginia
Jaramillo, Jae Jarrell, Wadsworth Jarrell, Lisa Jones, Loïs Mailou
Jones, Barbara Jones-Hogu, Carolyn Lawrence, Samella Lewis, Dindga
McCannon, Barbara McCullough, Ana Mendieta, Senga Nengudi, Lorraine
O’Grady, Howardena Pindell, Faith Ringgold, Alva Rogers, Alison Saar,
Betye Saar, Coreen Simpson, Lorna Simpson, Ming Smith, and Carrie Mae
Weems.
We Wanted a Revolution: Black Radical Women, 1965–85 is
organized by the Brooklyn Museum. Generous support for this exhibition
is provided by the Ford Foundation. The exhibition is organized by
Catherine Morris, Sackler Family Senior Curator for the Elizabeth A.
Sackler Center for Feminist Art, and Rujeko Hockley, assistant curator
of contemporary art at the Whitney Museum of American Art. CAAM's
presentation is organized by Naima J. Keith, Deputy Director and Chief
Curator.
