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AGENTS of Change: Women, Art & IntellectPresented by Ceres Gallery February 1, 2007- February 24, 2007Reception: February 16, 5:30 pm - 8:00 pmFrances Barth, Elizabeth Catlett, Judy Chicago, Renee Cox, Lesley Dill, Mimi Gross, Nancy Grossman, Grace Hartigan, Guerrilla Girls, Maren Hassinger, Joyce Kozloff, Ana Mendieta, Sungmi Lee, Faith Ringgold, Alison Saar, Betye Saar, Miriam Shapiro, Joyce J. Scott, Kara Walker, Kay WalkingStick, Deborah WillisCeres Gallery and TheFeministArtProject are pleased to announce AGENTS of Change: Women, Art and Intellect, a group exhibition celebrating women’s achievements in the visual arts, curated by Dr. Leslie King-Hammond, artist and Dean of Graduate Studies at Maryland Institute College of Art. The exhibition will be free and open to the public from February 1 through February 24 with a reception on Friday, February 16 from 5:30 to 8:00pm.ABOUT THE EXHIBITION In AGENTS of Change, Dr. King-Hammond features well-known artists such as Miriam Schapiro, Faith Ringgold, Ana Mendieta, Renee Cox, Judy Chicago, Kara Walker, the Guerrilla Girls and many others: She says: “Attitudes, issues and intellect have re-visioned our assumptions and expectations of the role of women as visual artists since the advent of the Feminist Movement. This will be an opportunity to showcase a select group of women artists to articulate a particular point of view that illuminates how women have made an impact on the art world. There has been a range of women artists who have made important and significant contributions that advance and include women in the discourse of American art history, criticism and scholarship. This exhibition will seek to identify the founding artists of this movement as well as those artists who are pushing beyond the borders of feminism.” By bringing works as diverse as a bronze Male Head #2 by Judy Chicago; a Renee Cox photograph, Black Leather Lace Up; a large-scale oil painting, Arlene Raven and her Artgroup Women 2002-2006, by Mimi Gross; High Yeller, a mixed media piece by Alison Saar and Untitled #3 by emerging artist Sungmi Lee, into conversation with each other, Dr. King-Hammond demonstrates the legacy of 35 years of feminist activity in the artworld: revealing today's diversity of aesthetics and content embraced by contemporary feminism. The exhibition is enhanced by an installation plan designed by Lowery Stokes Sims, former President of the Studio Museum in Harlem, who, according to New York Times critic Holland Cotter, “has a sharp eye and knows that ‘contemporary’ spans generations.” (The New York Times, Arts, 6/20/06.) ABOUT THE FEMINIST ART PROJECT TheFeministArtProject – Dr. King-Hammond is a National Committee Member and Lowery Stokes Sims an Honorary Committee Member – is a collective initiative of Feminist artists, curators, teachers, and writers who are organizing across the nation and across generations to re-focus public attention on the signal achievements of the Feminist Art Movement and its vital presence as an underpinning of contemporary art practice (http://feministartproject.rutgers.edu/). The public reception for the exhibition on Friday, February 16 from 5:30-8pm, is scheduled as part of a series of events at the College Art Association’s Annual Conference in New York, February 13-17, organized by the late art historian, Arlene Raven, Maryland Institute College of Art, and art historian, Anne Swartz, Savannah College of Art and Design. For more information on all of these events, please go to (http://conference.collegeart.org/2007/special). ABOUT THE CURATOR A nationally respected scholar, educator, author, curator and visual artist in her own right who has organized countless exhibitions, Dr. Leslie King-Hammond is Dean of Graduate Studies at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, Maryland. She is also professor of art history and the former president of the College Art Association. Dr. King-Hammond has served on the Executive Board of the International Association of Art Critics. Her articles and books include "Art as a Verb," "Black Printmakers and the WPA," and "Three Generations of African American Women Sculptors: A Study in Paradox." Additionally, she has written catalog essays for a number of important exhibitions. Since 2006, she has chaired the exhibits and collections committee of the Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History and Culture. Her art has been exhibited widely and was recently featured in "The Art of 9/11," curated by critic Arthur Danto at apexart in New York City and in the traveling exhibition "Collaboration as a Medium: 25 Years of Pyramid Atlantic." She collaborated with Jose Mapily in the exhibition “Legacies: Contemporary Artists Reflect on Slavery," curated by Lowery Stokes Sims at the New York Historical Society, in New York City, and "It's for the Birds," organized by the Bernice Steinbaum Gallery in Miami. Reviews of AGENTS of Change: Women, Art & Intellect
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