" On paper refers to things
done quickly with a certain
immediacy and impending fate..."
Driven by the need and desire to express and record personal expressions there are no rules to be broken or movements to react against. Instead this group of female artists can be said to all share the belief in the truth of knowledge. Such knowledge is not dogmatic but individualistic. Furthermore such knowledge over the past forty years has opened the doors to a vast group of artists to look inward and explore the self, male and female artists alike.
These women are no longer an historic anecdote as one might have discovered or uncovered in the past. It is not unusual or out of the ordinary to find and therefore collect work by women artists today. As a result do these artists have the same cultural weight? Are they yet allowed or considered to create a place for themselves in history along side their male counterparts, and is it a place of real significance? The answer is almost.
The title of the exhibition comes from a statement reportedly made by Alfred Stieglitz, father to the beginnings of Modern art in America. Upon meeting Georgia O'Keeffe at his gallery in New York called 291, Stieglitz looked over her works and exclaimed, "wonderful, a woman on paper. "
Michael
Klein
Curator
Microsoft Art Collection |
