Gender and art

Florence Henri, Self-portrait, 1928.

"The photographs and photo-montages of Florence Henri (1893–1982) attest to her broad artistic education and an unusual openness for new currents in the art of the time.

The artist, who had studied the piano under Ferruccio Busoni in Rome and painting in Paris under Fernand Léger, in Berlin under Johann Walter-Kurau and in Munich under Hans Hofmann, spent a brief semester as a guest at the Bauhaus in Dessau in 1927.

Although photography was not part of the curriculum at the Bauhaus at this time, lecturers such as László Moholy-Nagy and Georg Muche, as well as pupils including Walter Funkat and Edmund Collein experimented intensively with this medium. It was here that Florence Henri gained the inspiration to become a photographer herself."

Florence Henri - Compositionen

21.03.2014 - 14.09.2014

Pinakothek der Moderne, München

http://www.pinakothek.de/kalender/2014-03-21/44399/florence-henri-compositionen

Anita Steckel, Just Waiting for the Bus, Photo-montage, 1969–70

"In the 1960s and 1970s, Anita Steckel fought for the public acceptance of explicitly sexual art made by women, as part of the broader feminist art movement that was pushing for a revolution in the gender dynamics that continued to stifle women artists. Steckel’s photo-montages provocatively revamped existing imagery, often adding nudity and references to sexuality in order to vividly convey timely social or political messages.

Selections from Steckel’s archive are currently on view in NMWA’s Betty Boyd Dettre Library and Research Center. Papers, photographs, and art illustrate her boundary-pushing art and activism."

Equal Exposure: Anita Steckel’s Fight Against Censorship

National Museum of Women in the Arts, until May 09 2014

See more at: http://nmwa.org/learn/library-archives/library-exhibitions#sthash.zfJaG7ox.dpuf

"Photographer Liz Wuillermin combines techniques she first began to experiment with in the darkroom years ago with current digital technology to create her latest exhibit, “Sacred Earth Designs,” currently on display at the Seaview Resort Gallery in Galloway Township.

Wuillermin uses a technique to “mirror and repeat” a single photographed image and transform it into abstract patterns. She takes natural objects such as flowers, feathers, wood or stones, and creates what she calls “an ethereal tapestry.”

The “Sacred Earth Designs” exhibit can be seen until Nov. 17, 2013.

http://noyesmuseum.org/

"[...] A pioneer of photomontage, whose images of women presaged the ideas of Simone de Beauvoir and Second Wave Feminism half a century later, Höch was a pivotal figure in Dada, the anti-art movement that outraged conventional opinion in the final years of World War One, working alongside iconic male artists such as George Grosz, John Heartfield and Raoul Hausmann. [...]"

Hannah Höch opens at the Whitechapel Gallery (London) on January 15, 2014

http://www.whitechapelgallery.org/exhibitions

Hannah Höch, Cut With The Kitchen Knife Through The Last Weimar Beer-Belly Cultural Epoch in Germany (1919-1920)

"Nothing at Too Much Art has received as much traffic in recent weeks as my review of The Photomontages of Hannah Höch, an exhibition seen at The Museum of Modern Art in 1997. [...]

There is a gratifying modesty in how The Photomontages of Hannah Höch at the Museum of Modern Art has been properly, if not perfectly, scaled to its subject. Hannah Höch (1889–1978) was the sole woman artist associated with Berlin Dada, a group known for its strident politics and anti-art stance. In contrast to renowned Dadaists such as George Grosz and John Heartfield, Höch has been, until recently, a modernist footnote..."