The Foundation funded a film and graphic novel called “!War” by Lynn Hershman. Through intimate interviews, art, and rarely seen archival film and video footage, !Women Art Revolution reveals how the Feminist Art Movement fused free speech and politics into an art that radically transformed the art and culture of our times.
The Foundation is supporting Mass MOCA with a grant for an exhibit titled, Petah Coyne: Everything That Rises Must Converge and is on display from May 2010 until April 2011.
The Foundation helped fund Frances Stark: This could become a gimick [sic] or an honest articulation of the workings of the mind, the first U.S. museum survey of the work of Los Angeles artist and writer, Frances Stark.
The Foundation is supporting Doin’ It in Public: Feminism & Art at the Woman’s Building an exhibition, catalog and series of public events that document, contextualize and pay tribute to the groundbreaking work of feminist artists and art cooperatives that were centered in and around the Los Angeles Woman's Building in the 1970s and 1980s.
The Foundation helped fund the catalogue that accompanied the Laylah Ali exhibit: Notes/Drawings/Untitled Afflictions in 2008. Ali has gained international recognition for her ability to condense complex, socio-political commentary into deceptively simple imagery.
Long Life Cool White: Photographs by Moyra Davey—the artist’s first exhibition in a major museum— presented an overview of artist and writer Moyra Davey’s 20-year career summarized in 40 photographs.
This exhibition featured 14 examples of Rona Pondick's sculptures from the past decade and focuses on her particular interest in three aspects of sculpture—the communicative capacity of gesture and posture, the treatment of hair, and the effects of repetition.
The Foundation supported an exhibit titled, Tiger by the Tail! Women Artists of India Transforming Culture. The exhibition as a whole brought together the work of 17 Indian women artists, working in sculpture, painting, photography, and video, whose strong, feminist voices provided new models for the empowerment of women.
The Foundation helped fund the production of the feature length documentary film Our City Dreams by Chiara Clemente. The film is an invitation to visit the creative spaces of five women artists: Nancy Spero, MArina Abramovic, Kiki Smith, Ghada Amer, and Swoon.
Marlene Dumas: Measuring Your Own Grave was the first mid-career survey of the work of Marlene Dumas to be organized by an American institution. The exhibition, which included over 100 paintings and drawings, was organized according to specific subjects Dumas has examined throughout her 30-year career, including children, pregnant women, the dead, and the female nude.
The Foundation assisted Checkerboard in producing a 40 minute video on Kiki Smith called “Squatting the Palace: An Installation by Kiki Smith in Venice,” co-directed by Vivien Bittencourt and Vincent Katz.
The Foundation helped fund WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution at MOCA Los Angeles in 2006. This exhibit presented the first comprehensive survey of Feminist Art.
The Foundation supported Eva Hesse: Sculpture 1968. Eva Hesse’s brief career anticipated the innovations of the seventies and eighties--installation art, conceptual art, process art and performance art––and her late sculptures have earned a place in the canon of twentieth century art.
Contemporary Art Partnerships
The Foundation is proud to support:
San Francisco Art Institute (2010)
The Foundation funded a film and graphic novel called “!War” by Lynn Hershman. Through intimate interviews, art, and rarely seen archival film and video footage, !Women Art Revolution reveals how the Feminist Art Movement fused free speech and politics into an art that radically transformed the art and culture of our times.
Read MoreMass MOCA (2010)
The Foundation is supporting Mass MOCA with a grant for an exhibit titled, Petah Coyne: Everything That Rises Must Converge and is on display from May 2010 until April 2011.
Read MoreMIT Visual Arts Center (2010)
The Foundation helped fund Frances Stark: This could become a gimick [sic] or an honest articulation of the workings of the mind, the first U.S. museum survey of the work of Los Angeles artist and writer, Frances Stark.
Read MoreOtis College (2010)
The Foundation is supporting Doin’ It in Public: Feminism & Art at the Woman’s Building an exhibition, catalog and series of public events that document, contextualize and pay tribute to the groundbreaking work of feminist artists and art cooperatives that were centered in and around the Los Angeles Woman's Building in the 1970s and 1980s.
Read MoreDeCordova Museum (2008)
The Foundation helped fund the catalogue that accompanied the Laylah Ali exhibit: Notes/Drawings/Untitled Afflictions in 2008. Ali has gained international recognition for her ability to condense complex, socio-political commentary into deceptively simple imagery.
Read MoreHarvard Art Museum (2008)
Long Life Cool White: Photographs by Moyra Davey—the artist’s first exhibition in a major museum— presented an overview of artist and writer Moyra Davey’s 20-year career summarized in 40 photographs.
Read MoreWorcester Art Museum (2008)
This exhibition featured 14 examples of Rona Pondick's sculptures from the past decade and focuses on her particular interest in three aspects of sculpture—the communicative capacity of gesture and posture, the treatment of hair, and the effects of repetition.
Read MoreBrandeis University (2007)
The Foundation supported an exhibit titled, Tiger by the Tail! Women Artists of India Transforming Culture. The exhibition as a whole brought together the work of 17 Indian women artists, working in sculpture, painting, photography, and video, whose strong, feminist voices provided new models for the empowerment of women.
Read MoreDi San Luca Films (2007)
The Foundation helped fund the production of the feature length documentary film Our City Dreams by Chiara Clemente. The film is an invitation to visit the creative spaces of five women artists: Nancy Spero, MArina Abramovic, Kiki Smith, Ghada Amer, and Swoon.
Read MoreMIT Visual Arts Center (2007)
The Foundation helped fund Chantal Akerman: Moving Through Time and Space, a documentary that was on exhibit in 2008.
Read MoreMOCA, Los Angeles (2007)
Marlene Dumas: Measuring Your Own Grave was the first mid-career survey of the work of Marlene Dumas to be organized by an American institution. The exhibition, which included over 100 paintings and drawings, was organized according to specific subjects Dumas has examined throughout her 30-year career, including children, pregnant women, the dead, and the female nude.
Read MoreMoving Image Incorporated (2007)
The Foundation funded "Alice Neel," a documentary film, by Andrew Neel on the life and work of American portrait painter, Alice Neel.
Read MoreCheckerboard Film Foundation (2006)
The Foundation assisted Checkerboard in producing a 40 minute video on Kiki Smith called “Squatting the Palace: An Installation by Kiki Smith in Venice,” co-directed by Vivien Bittencourt and Vincent Katz.
Read MoreMOCA, Los Angeles (2006)
The Foundation helped fund WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution at MOCA Los Angeles in 2006. This exhibit presented the first comprehensive survey of Feminist Art.
Read MoreThe Jewish Museum (2005)
The Foundation supported Eva Hesse: Sculpture 1968. Eva Hesse’s brief career anticipated the innovations of the seventies and eighties--installation art, conceptual art, process art and performance art––and her late sculptures have earned a place in the canon of twentieth century art.
Read MoreWalker Art Center (2005)
The Foundation assisted in funding, Kiki Smith: A Gathering. 1980 – 2005 at the Walker Art Center on display during the spring of 2006.
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