Women of Atelier 17, Works on Paper: Greenwich Arts Council, Greenwich, CT

January 19 - March 15, 2020 Museum Exhibitions
This exhibition represents a timely reexamination of the experimental New York print studio Atelier 17, focusing on the women whose work defied gender norms through novel aesthetic forms and techniques. Atelier 17 operated as an uncommonly egalitarian laboratory for revolutionizing print technique, style, and scale. It facilitated women artists' engagement with modernist styles, providing a forum for extraordinary achievements that shaped postwar sculpture, fiber art, neo-Dadaism, and the Pattern and Decoration movement. Atelier 17 fostered solidarity among women pursuing modernist forms of expression, providing inspiration for feminist collective action in the 1960s and 1970s.
 

Over 60 works by Louise Nevelson, Alice Trumbull Mason, Francine Felsinthal, Helen Phillips, Terry Haass, Minna Citron, Perle Fine, Judith Rothschild, Worden Day, Ellen Abbey Countey, Jean Franksen, Dorothy Dehner, Norma Morgan, Christine Engler, Claire Falkenstein, Sue Fuller, Fanny Hillsmith, Anita Heiman, Dalla Husband, Kett, and Pennerton West. The exhibition will include comparative works by Hayter, Fred Becker, Mauricio Lasansky, and Gabor Peterdi. Works in the exhibition will include state proofs and plates as examples of the artists' process.

 

Opening reception is Sunday, January 26th, 3 - 5 p.m.

 

Tuesday, February 25th, Cocktail Reception at the Arts Council

and a conversation with the author at the Bruce Museum.

 

This exhibition was organized in collaboration with Dolan/Maxwell & author Christina Weyl.

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