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Artemisia Gallery
Artemisia Gallery was an alternative exhibition space in Chicago, Illinois, that operated from 1973 until its closure in 2003. History The gallery was a cooperative, started by 20 women who were frustrated by the lack of opportunities for female artists in Chicago, and opened in the same month as the ARC Gallery, another Chicago women’s cooperative. Artmesia was named after Artemisia Gentileschi, an Italian 17th-century artist and painter whose best work was first attributed to her father. From 1973 to 2003, Artemisia exhibited local, national, and international artists, supporting the careers of over 150 women artists and their mentees. The gallery was an active site for exhibitions, lectures, discussions, artist exchanges, and meetings. In 1975, the gallery was home to the first meeting of what would later become the Chicago Artist Coalition. The gallery closed in 2003. Lynne Warren, a curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art, suggested that women had become less draw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alternative Exhibition Space
An alternative exhibition space is a space other than a traditional commercial venue used for the public exhibition of artwork. Often comprising a place converted from another use, such as a store front, warehouse, or factory loft, it is then made into a display or performance space for use by an individual or group of artists. According to art advisor Allan Schwartzman "alternative spaces were the center of American artistic life in the '70s." 1970s USA A prominent wave of alternative spaces in the United States occurred in the 1970s, with the first spaces established in 1969, including the Taller Boricua, founded by Puerto Rican artists in New York, Billy Apple's APPLE, and Robert Newman's Gain Ground, where Vito Acconci produced many important early works. Philadelphia's Painted Bride Art Center also opened in 1969. Some date the start of the tendency from 1970, when 112 Greene StreetBrian Wallis, ''Public Funding and Alternative Spaces'' in Julie Ault, Alternative Art, New York ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phyllis Bramson
Phyllis Bramson (born 1941) is an American artist, based in Chicago and known for "richly ornamental, excessive and decadent" paintingsWainwright, Lisa. "Phyllis Bramson," ''Women's Caucus for Art Honor Awards 2014'', New York: ''Women's Caucus for Art, 2014. described as walking a tightrope between "edginess and eroticism."Johnson, Carrie. "Introduction,''Phyllis Bramson: In Praise of Folly, A Retrospective 1985–2015'' Exhibition catalogue, Rockford, IL: Rockford Art Museum, 2015. Retrieved May 16, 2018. She combines eclectic influences, such as kitsch culture, Rococo art and Orientalism, in juxtapositions of fantastical figures, decorative patterns and objects, and pastoral landscapes that affirm the pleasures and follies of romantic desire, imagination and looking.Orendorff, Danny. "Anything Goes: Freedom, Fetish, and Phyllis Bramson,''Phyllis Bramson: In Praise of Folly, A Retrospective 1985–2015'' Exhibition catalogue, Rockford, IL: Rockford Art Museum, 2015. Retrieved May ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
History Of Chicago
Chicago has played a central role in American Economy of the United States, economic, Culture of the United States, cultural and Politics of the United States, political history. Since the 1850s Chicago has been one of the dominant metropolises in the Midwestern United States, and has been the largest city in the Midwest since the 1880 United States Census, 1880 census. The area's recorded history begins with the arrival of French explorers, missionaries and fur traders in the late 17th century and their interaction with the local Pottawatomie, Potawatomi Native Americans. Jean Baptiste Point du Sable, a black freeman, was the first permanent non-indigenous settler in the area, having a house at the mouth of the Chicago River by at least 1790, though possibly as early as 1784. The small settlement was defended by Fort Dearborn after its completion in 1804, but was abandoned as part of the War of 1812 in expectation of an attack by the Potawatomi, who Battle of Fort Dearborn, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
