Magnetic fields
Subtitle: expanding American abstraction, 1960s to today
By: organized by Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri ; essays by Erin Dziedzic and Melissa Messina, Valerie Cassel Oliver, Lowery Stokes Sims, and Lilly Wei ; conversations by Nanette Carter, [and 7 others] ; with a foreword by Barbara O'Brien and Susan Fisher Sterling
Contributors: Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art; National Museum of Women in the Arts (U.S.)
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 142
ISBN-13: 9780996272834
Subjects: Abstract Art; Exhibitions; African American women artists; African American art
Other titles: Expanding American abstraction, 1960s to today
Description: Magnetic Fields: Expanding American Abstraction, 1960s to Today' introduces the work of more than twenty exceptional artists in conversation with one another for the first time. With works in a range of media, including painting, sculpture, printmaking, and drawing, the exhibition showcases a diverse range of unique visual vocabularies within non-representational expression. By highlighting these artists? individual approaches to form, color, composition, material exploration and conceptual impetus within hard-edge and gestural abstraction, Magnetic Fields provides an expanded history of non-pictorial image and object-making. The exhibition not only celebrates these artists as leaders in the field, but also the enduring ability of abstraction to convey both personal iconography and universal themes.00Exhibition: Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art. Kansas City , Missouri (08.06. - 17.09.2017).
Notes: Published on the occasion of the exhibition held at Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri, June 8--September 17, 2017 ; and at the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC, October 13, 2017--January 21, 2018.

Participating artists: Candida Alvarez, Betty Blayton, Chakaia Booker, Lilian Thomas Burwell, Nanette Carter, Barbara Chase-Riboud, Deborah Dancy, Abigail DeVile, Maren Hassinger, Jennie C. Jones, Evangeline "EJ" Montgomery, Mary Lovelace O'Neal, Howardena Pindell, Mavis PUsey, Shinique Smith, Gilda Snowden, Sylvia Snowden, Kianja Strobert, Alma Thomas, Mildred Thompson, Brenna Youngblood.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Magnetic fields, an introduction  -- Erin Dziedzic and Melissa Messina; title: Black, woman, abstract artist  -- Lowery Stokes Sims; title: Conversations. Lauren Haynes on Mavis Pusey --; title: Sandra Jackson-Dumont on Maren Hassinger --; title: Melissa Messina on Chakaia Booker --; title: Kathryn Wat on Lilian Thomas Burwell --; title: Alice Thorson on Sylvia Snowden --; title: Kindred : materializing representation in the abstract  -- Valerie Cassel Oliver; title: Conversations. Erin Dziedzic on Nannette Carter --; title: Nanette Carter on Evangeline "EJ" Montgomery --; title: Allison Glenn on Candida Alvarez --; title: Michelle Perron on Gilda Snowden --; title: Gia M. Hamilton on Deborah Dancy --; title: For women of color who have considered art in which abstraction is enough -- Lilly Wei.