New Episode in Making of Women and Pop Art Exhibition Posted
PHILADELPHIA (March 11, 2008) – “European Perspective,” the newest episode in the video blog (vlog) about the mounting of Beyond the Surface: Women and Pop Art 1958-1968, a first-of-its-kind exhibition that will be staged at the Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery at The University of the Arts in January 2010, has been posted to womenandpopart.blogspot.com. Rosenwald-Wolf Director Sid Sachs is curating the exhibition. Exhibitions Program Assistant Edward Waisnis directs and edits each episode.
“European Perspective,” the third of nine installments, features an interview with Dr. Sarah Wilson, art historian at the Courtauld Institute of Art in London. She speaks about the position of the female contemporary artist, specifically with regards to the work of Evelyne Axell, Pauline Boty and Niki de Saint Phalle, each of whom were active during the 1960s. Dr. Wilson’s informed discourse and spirited elocution bring her subjects, as well as her own invigorated work, to vivid life.
The next episode, which will premiere in June, focuses on Jann Haworth, one of the living artists whose work will be included in the exhibition. Haworth co-designed the Grammy Award-winning album art for the Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band and is the originator of soft sculpture. Episode five, scheduled for September, is an interview with Kalliopi Minioudaki, an art history graduate degree candidate at New York University's Institute of Fine Arts, exhibition collaborator and catalog contributor.
The first episode, “The Genesis of an Exhibition,” focuses on curator and exhibition originator Sachs, his passion for Pop Art and introducing a few of the artists who will be included in the exhibition. The second episode, “Rosalyn Drexler (A Life in Art),” the artist, novelist, playwright and erstwhile wrestler Drexler, whose work will be featured in the exhibition, ruminates about her life and career in the Pop Art arena.
Including works by Chryssa, de Saint Phalle, Drexler, Marisol, Dorothy Grebenak, Haworth, Kay Kurt, Lee Lozano, Marjorie Strider, Idelle Weber and Joyce Weiland, the exhibition will examine the impact women have had on the traditionally male-dominated field of Pop Art, expand the narrowly defined Pop Art movement and reevaluate its critical reception. In uncovering important female artists, the show will enlarge the canon to reflect more accurately the women working internationally during this period.
Scheduled to travel to Tufts University in the spring of 2010, with other venues pending, the exhibition is being supported by funding from the Philadelphia Exhibitions Initiative (PEI), a program of the Philadelphia Center for Arts and Heritage, funded by the Pew Charitable Trusts and administered by The University of the Arts. The Philadelphia Cultural Management Initiative supports the vlog.
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