FOR FRIDA (AND ALL THE OTHER FEMALE ARTISTS NOT RECOGNIZED IN THEIR LIFETIMES) - 2022

THE MARGINS OF ART HISTORY SERIES or WHY ARE THERE NO FEMALE ARTISTS IN THE 1970 JANSON’S HISTORY OF ART?

This piece is the first in a series of work celebrating female artists. It was inspired by the lack of even one female artist in the entire book of Janson’s History of Art (1970 edition) I found.

Materials: Painted Papers, Acrylics, Ricepaper, Vintage Janson’s History of Art Book, Silk, Ribbon, Lace, Acrylic, Pencil, Beads.

Size: 11”x14”

Frida Kahlo is arguably one of THE most popular artists in history yet somehow she wasn’t considered important enough back in 1970 to be included in THE art survey used in most basic art history courses. So, in an effort to “right that wrong” I decided I would use that index page she should have been on and write her in (her place would have been after Kandinsky) with as many other female artists I-L from the past that I could fit. Squeezed into the margins of the index page, a metaphor for how they had existed on the margins of the art world during their life times.