The Art in the Hills Gallery

Located at Crafton Hills College

Curated by Art.2

The work that we show is centered on women artists in history and modern times.

The Women of Art

Fetured in this Exhibit are:

Alice Bailly

Leonora Carrington

Lavinia Fontana

Fede Galizia

Brenda Goodman

Frida Kahlo

Tamara de Lempicka

Barbra Longhi

Yelizaveta Nersesova

Beatrice Wood

Why This Selection?

The show is about the type of art women created in the past as well as pieces that are a bit more modern. Each artist has an individual take on how they portray their world, most of which being done through self-portraits. As it is evident in the art world, women do not get as much attention as they sometimes deserve. This exhibit was put together to showoff the work of both recognizable female artists, as well as those who aren’t as well known. We dedicate this Exhibition to them.

Yelizaveta Nersesova

Yelizaveta Nersesova

2010-2011

Yelizaveta Nersesova has been a successful Op art artist in the Dallas, Texas area , her works have included ink to physical pottery works of art each of these works has a commonality within the works of art.  This common feature that occurs in each and every piece of work is the use of never-ending lines of shapes weather it is a simple square or to the complicated spirals that she places in the works of art.


http://nersesova.com/

Self Portrait 61

Brenda Goodman

Self Portrait 61

 2007

52x48”

Oil on wood

One of many self-portraits Brenda created through out her professional career. Goodman quoted, “I had a desire to paint myself much more naturalistically; I felt it was important not to have a veil between me and my feelings, between me and the viewer. I wanted the work to be open. So much contemporary painting is not open . . . you can't penetrate it. You have no clue who the artist is, or why they're even doing what they're doing. Which is fine – I mean you can paint for different reasons and come from different places. But for me, it's always been crucial that I reveal myself, share my journey."


http://www.brendagoodman.com/recent_40.htm

Beatrice Wood

Beatrice Wood

·      Blue Luster Double Necked Bottle with Braided Decorations

·      Earthenware

·      9 x 5 7/8 inches

·      1969

·      Born in 1893 in San Francisco, Ca and died in 1998

·      Was a Dadaist


http://americanart.si.edu/collections/search/artwork/?id=34940

Without Hope

Frida Kahlo

Without Hope

1945

Oil on canvas mounted on masonite (a metal substitute used during WWII)
11”x14-1/4’’

The artist depicts herself in bed due to malnutrition (as result of loss of appetite due to many surgeries). As a treatment her food was pureed and fed to her. The wooden structure is her easel, which once held her works of art, now is holding the funnel that force-feeds her. Her hands seem to be constrained under her sheets and she is left hopeless within her bed.

On the back of the painting Frida inscribed the following entry, "Not the least hope remains for me.... everything moves in step with what's in the belly."


http://arthistory.about.com/od/from_exhibitions/ig/frida_kahlo/Frida-Kahlo---Without-Hope--1945.htm