Gender and art

Chantal Joffe, Betty Friedan, 2014

"Hannah, Gertrude, Alice, Betty, Nadine, Golda, Susan, Claude, Nancy, Grace, Diane….. is a series of 34  portraits by London-based painter Chantal Joffe, which will hang salon-style on two walls of the Skirball Lobby of the Jewish Museum.

 

Joffe has long focused on portraiture and, for this new body of work, she explores Jewish women of the 20th century. Personages who made major contributions to art, literature, philosophy and politics such as Diane Arbus, Nancy Spero, Gertrude A. Stein, Alice B. Toklas, Susan Sontag, and Hannah Arendt are represented as both children and adults. Implicitly included here are the women who perished during the Shoah, whose creativity and intellect were lost to history."

 

Using Walls, Floors, and Ceilings: Chantal Joffe

May 1–October 18, 2015

The Jewish Museum, New York

http://thejewishmuseum.org/exhibitions/using-walls-floors-and-ceilings-chantal-joffe