WHAT'S ON BY WOMEN ARTISTS IN THE UK
FEBRUARY – THOUGHT YOU SHOULD KNOW
A compilation of exhibitions featuring women artists:
Last Chance:
Until 5 February
Anouk Kruithof at the B&N Gallery
Anouk Kruithof, an acclaimed Dutch photographer, presents a new large-scale spatial installation consisting of 103 different assemblages made out of photo paper.Until 5 February
Imagination of Children at the Museum of Childhood
Nine visual artists (seven of whom are women) fascinated by a child’s ability to play and ‘make believe,’ have made or adapted their art-works for visitors to discover amongst the Museum’s collections.
Closing This Month:
Until 11 February
Catherine Yass at Alison Jacques
Yass presents a new film and a series of photographic light boxes that centre on the Royal Sovereign Lighthouse, a remarkable maritime structure set five miles out to sea off the south coast of England.Until 12 February
Bridget Smith at the Frith Street Gallery
Smith’s new film and photographs illustrate the power of acting out an imagined scenario and the consequences it can have in real life. They examine notions of life, death, and faith as it’s used as a refuge in critical moments.Until 12 February
Edefalk and Wåhlstrand at Parasol Unit
Cecilia Edefalk, one of Sweden’s most sought-after painters, shows canvases depicting the exchange between past and present. Gunnel Wåhlstrand’s photo-realistic black-ink drawings are a deeply private and meticulously reconstructed documentation of her personal history.Until 12 February
Dara Birnbaum at the South London Gallery
American artist Dara Birnbaum, internationally recognised for her pioneering video works, was one of the first to subvert the language of television. This exhibition combines recent and seminal 70’s video works.Until 15 February
Julia Margaret Cameron at the Museum of Childhood
Mid-nineteenth century artist Cameron strove to establish photography as an art form, using soft focused compositions inspired by the Renaissance. This small exhibition explores the artist’s vision of childhood, in which children are sacred and the embodiment of innocence.Until 18 February
Viola Yesiltac at the Cooper Gallery (Dundee)
In this multi-media exhibition, artist Viola Yesiltac explores the displacements that operate between photography, drawing, sculpture, and performance, directing attention to the materiality of her artworks.Until 18 February
Caroline Achaintre at Arcade
Trip dip.Until 19 February
Lygia Pape at the Serpentine Gallery
A retrospective of work from throughout Pape’s career, including early drawings and poems from her Concrete period to her New-Concretist Livros (Books) and Caixas (Boxes) series, as well as ballets and performances such as Divisor (Divider) and Ovo (The Egg).Until 19 February
Gina Czarnecki at the Bluecoat (Liverpool)
A retrospective including commissions and new work by this award-winning artist.
Be sure also not to miss the opportunity to meet the artist on 4 February 2012, 2:00pm-3:30pm, or to join her for a timely debate on 8 February 2012, 6:00pm-7:30pm!Until 25 February
Ambrosine Allen at Room London
Taking pages from discarded encyclopedias and cutting them into tiny pieces, Allen presents an array of landscapes, imaginary and real, architectural and natural.Until 25 February
Renee So at Kate MacGarry
Working in ceramic and wool, So creates stylized sculptural portraits referencing the history of anthropomorphic ceramic-ware, suggesting a multiplicity of lineage and style.Until 25 February
Margherita Manzelli at Greengrassi
This exhibition presents new works by the Italian painter known for haunting images of solitary women.Until 25 February
Darina Karpov at the Hales Gallery
Karpov, whose work calls upon rich, European romantic tradition, presents a new set of paintings. The artist pulls together memories and associations through her elaborate processes and techniques.Until 25 February
Paloma Varga Weisz at Sadie Coles (Burlington Place)
Paloma Varga Weisz’s exhibition presents a series of new sculptures in glazed ceramic. Modeled by hand and finished in muted tones, the works range between emotionally-charged portraits and depictions of imaginary characters.Until 26 February
House of Annie Lennox at the V&A
A one-room display that explores the creative vision of Annie Lennox, whose music and personal style are internationally renowned. The exhibition includes, among other things, the musician’s costumes, photographs, personal treasures, and awards.Until 26 February
Laura Buckley at the Cell Project Space
Irish born artist Laura Buckley presents an ambitious single screen installation combining projection and sculpture. Her work acts as a personification of a natural phenomenon, illustrating an anthropomorphic sensibility in humanity.Until 26 February
Barbara Probst at the Wilkinson Gallery
Probst presents sequences of photographs composed of individual, though related, images that integrate numerous perspectives of a single moment. Her work addresses photography’s capacity to construct narratives while maintaining the medium’s inherent artifice.Until 26 February
Saskia Olde Wolbers at Maureen Paley
Wolbers presents her newest work, a video installation titled Pareidolia. Told from the point of view of a bird, the piece is based on Eugene Herrigel’s book, Zen in the Art of Archery, and highlights the tendency of human perception to discover meaning in random structures.Until 26 February
Andrea Buettner at Hollybush Gardens
A series of woodcuts by German artist Andrea Buettner, the winner of last year’s Max Mara Prize.Opening This Month:
1 February to 3 April
Carmen Herrera at the Lisson Gallery
This extensive survey show by Cuban painter Carmen Herrera, her most comprehensive European exhibition to date, highlights work from all phases of her career including a selection of previously unseen pieces, beginning in the 1940s and continuing through the present day.2 February to 1 March
Linda Karshan at the Redfern Gallery
A series of drawings concentrating on light, precision, pace, and presence. Be sure also not to miss a conversation between the artist and Alyce Mahon (Senior Lecturer in History of Art, University of Cambridge) at the Redfern Gallery on 23 February 2012, 6-8pm.3 February to 28 April
Joan Mitchell at the Hauser & Wirth Gallery, Piccadilly
The exhibition presents the paintings of the late American Abstract Expressionist, Joan Mitchell. Created during the last decade of her life, these vibrant, large-scale canvasses mark a distinct departure from her more sombre works of the early 1960s.9 February to 17 March
Lynda Benglis at Thomas Dane
Day-glo sculptures in foam, latex, plaster or aluminium, poured onto the floor or installed on plinths and walls.9 February to 5 June
Yayoi Kusama at the Tate Modern
The largest exhibition to date of the artist’s work in the UK. Throughout her career, Kusama has continuously re-invented her style, encompassing an astonishing variety of media including painting, drawing, sculpture, film, performance, and immersive installation.10 February to 5 April
Yayoi Kusama at the Victoria Miro Gallery
Coinciding with Kusama’s retrospective exhibit at the Tate Modern, this exhibition showcases a series of new paintings by the revered contemporary artist. Her new works are startlingly innovative while remaining classically Kusama.10 February to 10 March
Kaoli Mashio and Eeva Karhu at Purdy Hicks
Mashio creates paintings of other-worldly landscapes and abstract portraits, while Karhu creates impressionistic landscapes by overlapping hundreds of photographic images.10 February to 7 April
Chen Man at the Chinese Arts Center (Manchester)
Chen Man, a leading fashion photographer in China, presents a series of images that play with the juxtaposition of old and new, real and imaginary, ordinary and ideal, capturing the personalities and attitudes of a new generation of Chinese.11 February to 21 March
Gillian Ayres at Victoria Art Gallery (Bath)
A new group of paintings plus experiments in woodcut printing.16 February to 17 March
Alison Britton at Marsden Woo
Jar-like clay vessels sprouting handles, pipes and spouts.23 February to 24 March
Vicken Parsons at Alan Cristea Gallery
Parsons makes small, intimate paintings of landscape and architectural spaces which move from figuration to abstraction with quiet ease. Made with thin layers of oil paint on thick plywood panel, the works have a three-dimensional, object-like quality.23 February to 24 March
Karla Black at Modern Art23 February to 5 April
Mary Heilmann at the Hauser & Wirth Gallery, Savile Row, South Gallery
Heilmann presents a large group of new paintings, ceramic sculpture, and her distinctive furniture, all coming together as a vibrant retelling of the artist’s ongoing life story.24 February to 30 March
Ulla von Brandenburg at the Pilar Corrias Gallery
Working in a diverse range of media, von Brandenburg transforms the upper gallery into a labyrinth of hand-made quilts guiding viewers on an abstract journey culminating in a new 16mm film shown here for the first time.24 February to 30 March
Sarah Dwyer at Josh Lilley GalleryOngoing Exhibitions:
Until 1 March
Akikio Takizawa at Daiwa-Anglo-Japanese Foundation
Takizawa presents a selection of her photographs since 2006, including new works made especially for this exhibition. Taken at a volcanic mountain area in Japan, her newest prints blur the border between life and death and capture traditional, rapidly disappearing Japanese attitudes toward family and communities.Until 2 March
The Body in Women’s Art Now: Part 3 – Recreation at Rollo Contemporary Art
In the final installment of this critically acclaimed series, artists Miri Segal, Anne-Marie Schleiner, Gazira Babeli, and Helen Carmel Benigson bring together their multi-media interactive artworks to further develop the dialog surrounding the body in women’s art. Combining video-art, video-game art, prints, and performance-video works, the women create artworks that comment upon the shifting status and experience of the body.Until 9 March
Zarina Bhimji at the Whitechapel Gallery
Tracing 25 years of Bhimji’s career, this show includes rarely seen earlier works as well as ambitious film narratives. Landscapes and buildings haunted by their layered histories act as protagonists in her photographs and large-scale film installations.Until 11 March
Tacita Dean at the Turbine Hall, Tate Modern
For the twelfth commission in The Unilever Series, celebrated British filmmaker Tacita Dean creates an 11-minute silent film, designed specifically to respond to the architecture of Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall.Until 11 March
Christina Mackie at Chisenhale Gallery
Mackie presents a number of new works across sculpture, video, photography and drawing.Until 11 March
Jane Joseph at the Mostyn Gallery (Llandudno, Wales)
This exhibition presents two unique sets of etchings by Jane Joseph, inspired by the life and work of Primo Levi. The etchings were influenced by If This is a Man, Levi’s autobiographical account of the year he spent imprisoned at Auschwitz.Until 25 March
Jane and Louise Wilson at Dundee Contemporary Arts (Dundee)
Bringing together two bodies of recent work, Jane and Louis Wilson present a set of photographs and a film. The large-scale photographic prints coincide with the 25th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. The two-part film installation centers on the assassination of a Hamas operative in January 2010.Until 25 March
Lis Rhodes at the ICA
Lis Rhodes’ film exhibition encompasses performance, photography, composition, writing, and political commentary. Thematically, her films deal with the assemblage of female identity, social injustices, oppression, surveillance, protest culture, and the language of dissent.Until 31 March
Diane Arbus: Artist Room at the Tate Modern
This three-room display of work by Diane Arbus (1923-1971), one of the great figures of American photography, exposes the variety and complexity of the human condition through the photographer’s sympathy for her subjects.Until 31 March
Mikala Dwyer at Project Arts Centre (Dublin)
Ascribing spiritual significance to the objects and artifacts she works with, Dwyer uses them to herald a community. The artist herself describes her first solo exhibition as “an exploded and bewitched house with a floating roof.”
Current and Upcoming Exhibitions at NMWA DC:
http://www.nmwa.org/24 February to 29 July
Royalists to Romantics: Women Artists from the Louvre, Versailles, and Other French National Collections
This exhibition features 78 works by 34 artists – many of which have never been seen outside of France. Artists include Marguerite Gérard, Antoine Cecile Haudebourt-Lescot, Adélaïde Labille-Guillard, Sophie Rude, Anne Vallayer-Coster, and Elisabeth Louise Vigée-Lebrun. The exhibition explores the political and social dynamics that shaped their world and influenced their work. Rediscovering and celebrating women artists of the past, the show reveals how the tumultuous period that saw the flowering of the court of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, the terrors of the French revolution, the rise and fall of Napoleon, and the restoration of the monarchy affected the lives and careers of women artists.