Alma Woodsey Thomas
Alma Woodsey Thomas was the first Black woman to have a show at the Whitney Museum of American Art. She was also the first Black woman to have work acquired by the White House.
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Emily Kame Kngwarreye
Emily Kame Kngwarreye was a leading Indigenous Australian artist.
Cecilia May Gibbs
Cecilia May Gibbs was a leading painter, illustrator, cartoonist and author, usually known by her second name, May.
Lisa Yuskavage
Yuskavage is part of a generation of conceptual, figurative painters that emerged in the 1990s. She is often compared with other so called “bad girl” painters who explore transgressive territory related to the human body including Jenny Saville, Cecily Brown, and Marlene Dumas.
Elizabeth Peyton
Peyton has been credited with the revival of figurative painting in the 1990s.
Cecily Brown
Cecily Brown’s emergence as a female artist capable of challenging the gendered status quo not only of the art world but of what many regard as the hyper-masculinity of the Abstract Expressionist movement is perhaps her most lasting contribution.
Tracey Emin
Emin’s work as part of the Young British Artists movement placed her firmly within a key legacy that was to affect the development of art in Britain for years to come.
Jenny Saville
Saville can be credited with updating figurative painting for contemporary art and her unidealized paintings of predominately women’s bodies can also be related to Feminist art and Performance art by innovators such as Mary Kelly, Ana Mendieta, Cindy Sherman, and Carolee Schneemann.
Elaine De Kooning
Elaine de Kooning’s legacy has received increased attention in recent years. Her large, colorful, gestural works of the 1960s show her to be an adept Abstract Expressionist, and her sensitive and dynamic portraits of friends, athletes, and strangers widen the understanding of what Abstract Expressionism can be. But beyond her painting, de Kooning’s astute and rigorous analyses of painting in the 1940s and 1950s, helped to shape what we know of Abstract Expressionism as a whole.
Pat Steir
Pat Steir is a strongly process-driven painter. She says “I think of painting as a research. I’m not a product-maker. I’m a researcher.” Her signature drip-style painting emerged from a desire to demonstrate that painting, too, can be conceptual.