Earlier this year, “We Wanted a Revolution: Black Radical Women, 1965–85” at the Brooklyn ... and committed their passions specifically to abstract art. Understanding the mental space ...

As we enter International Black Women’s History Month ... and fabric, Pindell makes abstract paintings that raise particular political points. Her 1980 video, “Free, White and 21,” targets ...

a new generation of emerging Black women artists are reshaping the future of both abstract and figurative painting. Keep scrolling to learn more about the artists we can’t get enough of.

The origins of Black abstract painting can be traced back to Norman ... In fact, the first African-American woman to have a solo show at the Whitney was the abstract painter Alma Thomas in 1972.

She goes further and employs a series of black hatch-work marks ... be grasped by another curator. Women of Abstract Expressionism continues at the Denver Art Museum (100 West 14th Avenue Parkway ...

Two months before she died, Alma Thomas invited the art critic Eleanor Munro to her red brick house in Washington, D.C.’s ...

“I want to paint a black woman, but I want to paint her purple ... teaching herself with YouTube tutorials and doing a lot of abstract art. “I was going off the notion that God wanted me ...

The recent easing of pandemic-related business restrictions has allowed the reopening of museums and visual art centers across ... “North Carolina Women Abstract Painters” opened in February ...

That’s the question that motivated Denver Art Museum curator Gwen Chanzit to mount her just-opened exhibition, “Women of Abstract Expressionism.” Chanzit didn’t set out to make a show spec ...

I really thought it was important to look at the language of power as opposed to our historical painting. But also I think in many ways it was to sort of pay homage to all the myriad black women ...

Abstract expressionism is coming to Washburn University. Mulvane Art Museum has opened a new exhibit: "Women of Abstract Expressionism." The exhibition contains paintings and drawings curated from ...

a new generation of emerging Black women artists are reshaping the future of both abstract and figurative painting. Keep scrolling to learn more about the artists we can’t get enough of.