Gender and art

“Marisol: Sculptures and Works on Paper,” at El Museo del Barrio, is the artist’s first solo exhibition at a New York City museum.

Through Jan. 10, 2015

http://www.elmuseo.org/marisol/

"Memphis Brooks Museum of Art announces the exhibition Marisol: Sculptures and Works on Paper, which premiered at the Brooks Museum on June 14. The exhibition will remain on view in Memphis until September 7 when it travels to El Museo del Barrio in New York City. A catalog, co-published by Yale University Press, is available worldwide.

This is the first major retrospective to include Marisol’s sculptures in conjunction with her works on paper. Curated by the Brooks Museum’s Chief Curator, Marina Pacini, the exhibition is inspired by Marisol’s mixed-media sculpture The Family, commissioned by the Brooks Museum in 1969.The exhibition includes works that range in date from 1955 to 1998 and will shed light on Marisol’s artistic evolution, both in terms of subject matter and materials. The exhibition includes examples of the various media Marisol used (bronze casting, wood carving, assemblage, plaster casts, terracotta, drawing, and printmaking) as well as the many themes and subjects she considered."

Marisol: Sculptures and Works on Paper

June 14 - September 7, 2014

Memphis Brooks Museum of Art

http://brooksmuseum.org/marisol

"The artist, Marisol Escobar once stated that she was born an artist. Thereafter, she “had to explain to everyone just what that meant.” The Memphis Brooks Museum of Art presents Marisol: Sculptures and Works on Paper until September 7, 2014. The exhibition re-introduces Marisol Escobar, not only to art critics, but to bring attention to her artwork as a leading figure in postwar American art. The show curates nearly 50 of Marisol’s most significant sculptures and works on paper. It will present an overall  scholarly study of the artist’s career and life.

The retrospective will examine the relationship that her artwork had towards postwar art and cultural movements including Pop, Minimalism and feminism. From family portraiture to politically-charged sculptures, Marisol addressed poverty, Native Americans, the Vietnam War, and her own identity as a Venezuelan artist, born in Paris. Assembled chronologically, the retrospective opens with Marisol’s The Family, a 1968 commissioned work for the Memphis museum."
http://www.brooksmuseum.org/marisol

Read more at http://guardianlv.com/2014/06/marisol-sculptures-and-works-on-paper-exhibition-at-memphis-museum/#yW83cIuvh6S7LQWL.99