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2019.08.03 10:57
볼티모어 미술관 2020 여성작가 헌사 전시 20회 론칭
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볼티모어 미술관(Baltimore Museum of Art)이 2020년 미 여성 참정권 100주년을 기념 올 가을부터 여성 작가에 헌사하는 13회의 개인전과 7회의 그룹전을 시작한다.
THE BALTIMORE MUSEUM OF ART DEDICATES A YEAR OF EXHIBITIONS AND PROGRAMS TO WOMEN ARTISTS IN 2020
2020 Marks the 100th Anniversary of Women Getting the Right to Vote in the U.S.
Initiative Includes 20 Exhibitions Beginning Fall 2019
BALTIMORE, MD (August 1, 2019)—The Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA) today announced 2020 Vision, a year of
exhibitions and programs dedicated to the presentation of the achievements of female-identifying artists. The
initiative will encompass 13 solo exhibitions and seven thematic shows beginning in fall 2019, with additional
presentations still being planned. Highlights include a large-scale transformative commission by Mickalene Thomas, a
major monographic survey of Joan Mitchell’s career, an exploration of Candice Breitz’s video works, and the
reinstallation of several of the museum’s galleries to emphasize the depth and diversity of women’s artistry through
time. These presentations will be supported by a wide range of public and scholarly programs that will foster dialogue
on women’s contributions to art history and the development of many of the artistic institutions that we know today.
The initiative is part of the BMA’s ongoing implementation of its broader vision to address race and gender diversity gaps
within the museum field, and to represent more fully and deeply the spectrum of individuals that have shaped the
trajectory of art. 2020 Vision builds on the BMA’s efforts over the last several years to expand its presentations of
women artists and artists of color, and to more accurately reflect the community in which it lives. It also coincides with
the 100th anniversary of the passing of the 19th Amendment, ratified on August 18, 1920, which guaranteed women in
the U.S. the right to vote.
“The BMA’s 2020 Vision initiative serves to recognize the voices, narratives, and creative innovations of a range of
extraordinarily talented women artists. The goal for this effort is to rebalance the scales and to acknowledge the ways
in which women’s contributions still do not receive the scholarly examination, dialogue, and public acclaim that they
deserve,” said Christopher Bedford, BMA Dorothy Wagner Wallis Director. “This vision and goal are especially
appropriate, given the central role women have played in shaping this museum throughout its history.”
The BMA will begin implementing 2020 Vision in fall 2019 with a series of thematic exhibitions and a major
commission. By Their Creative Force: American Women Modernists will feature works by Elizabeth Catlett, Maria
Martinez, Georgia O’Keeffe, and others who contributed to major art movements of the 20th century from Cubism to
Abstract Expressionism. Several of these artists—including Simone Brangier Boas, Grace Hartigan, and Amalie
Rothschild—were based in Baltimore during their careers. This is followed by the late November opening of a largescale installation by internationally acclaimed artist Mickalene Thomas. This site-specific work for the inaugural
Robert E. Meyerhoff and Rheda Becker Biennial Commission will transform the BMA’s two-story East Lobby into a
living room for the city with new wallpapers, furnishings, and prints by Thomas. In December, the museum will open
Free Form: 20th-Century Studio Craft and Adorned: African Women & the Art of Identity. Free Form presents works
by innovative embroidery, ceramic, and jewelry artists such as Mariska Karasz and Baltimore-based artists Gloria
Balder Katzenberg and Betty Cooke. Adorned features two dozen works that demonstrate the critical role of 20thcentury African women in shaping and maintaining social identities through objects created in clay, cloth, and beads.
The BMA’s 2020 Vision initiative will be in full swing by March 2020, when a selection of powerful videos by
internationally acclaimed artist Candice Breitz are presented in the special exhibition galleries. The South Africanborn artist creates moving socio-political narratives that address the lives of immigrants, the rights of sex workers,
and other topics that reflect human rights concerns. The exhibition will focus on two major video works: TLDR (2017)
and Love Story (2016). In September 2020, the BMA presents Joan Mitchell: Fierce Beauty, a comprehensive
retrospective of works by the renowned American artist. The exhibition will explore the full arc of Mitchell’s artistic
practice—from her exceptional New York paintings in the early 1950s to the majestic, large-scale multi-panel works
made in France later in her career. Rarely shown paintings and works on paper from public and private collections in
the U.S. and Europe will reveal the artist’s inner landscape—experience, sensation, and memory—expressed with an
intensely athletic grace.
Every gallery in the BMA’s Contemporary Wing will also be in alignment with 2020 Vision. This includes a newly
commissioned work by German artist Katharina Grosse, as well as focused solo exhibitions of works by Sharon
Lockhart, Ana Mendieta, Howardena Pindell, Tschabalala Self, and Lisa Yuskavage, and Baltimore-based artists
Grace Hartigan, Valerie Maynard, and Jo Smail. On the first floor of the museum, Ellen Lesperance: Velvet Fist will
present a suite of seven exquisite paintings from the artist’s ongoing Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp series
shown with her Congratulations and Celebrations Sweater participatory project.
In summer 2020, the BMA will present a selection of beaded works created by 19th-century Lakota women who
subversively incorporated the American flag and other patriotic iconography into traditional Native American designs.
It is joined by several thematic exhibitions drawn from the BMA’s collection, including presentations that feature
historic and contemporary works by male artists that emphasize the essential roles of women. With a working title of
African Art and the Matrilineage, this exhibition is the first in the United States to propose maternal power as an
activating and vital force at work in African art during the 19th through mid-20th centuries. Women Behaving Badly
is the working title for a thematic exhibition about representations of female power and protest in European and
American art. From mythic and biblical heroines to femme fatales and witches, the show foregrounds the stories of
intellectuals, entertainers, and activists who rebelled against the traditional roles of wife and mother. Additionally,
the extraordinary legacy of former BMA director Adelyn Breeskin, who arranged the Cone Collection bequest for the
museum and commissioned the U.S. Pavilion for the 1960 Venice Biennale, will be celebrated with some of her key
acquisitions as well as archival materials.
WOMEN ARTISTS, COLLECTORS, AND LEADERS AT THE BMA
The BMA has nearly 3,800 works of art by 1,050 women artists and designers. The first painting by a woman artist to
enter the museum’s collection was a portrait by Sarah Miriam Peale, considered the first American woman to succeed
as a professional artist. It was given to the BMA in 1916, two years after the museum was founded. The BMA has
been avidly collecting works by contemporary female artists for several decades, most recently adding major works
by Njideka Akunyili Crosby, Mary Reid Kelley, Wangechi Mutu, Mary Lovelace O’Neal, Amy Sherald, Anne Truitt, Carrie
Mae Weems, and Lynette Yiadom-Boakye. Among the other women artists represented in the collection are Louise
Bourgeois, Mary Cassatt, Elizabeth Catlett, Helen Frankenthaler, Edmonia Lewis, Louise Nevelson, Faith Ringgold,
Susan Rothenberg, Alison Saar, Joyce J. Scott, Cindy Sherman, and Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun,.
Important donors and collectors whose legacies continue today include Mary Frick Jacobs (1851–1936), who was one
of the BMA’s incorporators and funded the 1937 wing that presents European Old Masters paintings and sculpture,
many of them from her own collection. Dr. Claribel Cone (1864–1929) and Etta Cone (1870–1949) were groundbreaking collectors who befriended Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso early in their careers and amassed a worldrenowned collection of 3,000 works by many of the greatest modern artists of the 20th century. These works were
bequeathed to the BMA in 1950, along with the funds to create a suite of galleries for their display. Saidie Adler May
(1879–1951) built a remarkable collection focused on the younger generation of Surrealist and other European and
American avant-garde artists and also funded a wing at the museum that included a large space dedicated to children’s education. Her sister Blanche Adler (1877–1941) gave the museum a collection of collected lithographs,
etchings, and woodcuts by North American and European artists. Dorothy McIlvain Scott (1912–2011) was a BMA
Trustee and a prominent collector of 18th- and 19th-century American paintings, furniture, and decorative arts. Scott
gave the museum a $10 million endowment gift in 2007 for the Dorothy McIlvain Scott American Wing, dedicated to
her parents and uncles.
The BMA has had a long history of pioneering women who have helped shape the institution since its earliest days.
The museum’s first director was Florence Levy, who served from 1923 to 1926. Adelyn Breeskin led the museum as
acting director and director from 1942 to 1962, helping to secure the Cone Collection and commissioning the U.S.
Pavilion for the 1960 Venice Biennale. During the tenure of Doreen Bolger from 1998 to 2015, the museum reinstalled
many of its collection galleries and reinstated free admission. Women board chairs who have led the BMA include
Edith Ferry Hooper, Margot Heller, Constance Caplan, Suzanne Cohen, and the current chair, Clair Zamoiski Segal.
THE BALTIMORE MUSEUM OF ART
Founded in 1914, The Baltimore Museum of Art is a major cultural destination recognized for engaging diverse
audiences through dynamic exhibitions and innovative educational and community outreach programs. The BMA’s
internationally renowned collection of 95,000 objects encompasses more than 1,000 works by Henri Matisse anchored
by the famed Cone Collection of modern art, as well as one of the nation’s finest holdings of prints, drawings, and
photographs. The galleries showcase an exceptional collection of art from Africa; important works by established and
emerging contemporary artists; outstanding European and American paintings, sculpture, and decorative arts; significant
artworks from China; ancient Antioch mosaics; and exquisite textiles from around the world. The 210,000- square-foot
museum is also distinguished by a grand historic building designed in the 1920s by renowned American architect John
Russell Pope and two beautifully landscaped gardens featuring an array of 20thcentury sculpture. The BMA is located in
Charles Village, three miles north of the Inner Harbor, and is adjacent to the main campus of Johns Hopkins University.
General admission to the BMA is free so that everyone can enjoy the power of art.
VISITOR INFORMATION
General admission to the BMA is free. Special exhibitions may be ticketed. The BMA is open Wednesday through
Sunday from 10:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m. The museum is closed Monday, Tuesday, New Year’s Day, July 4, Thanksgiving, and
Christmas. The BMA is located at 10 Art Museum Drive, three miles north of Baltimore’s Inner Harbor. For general
museum information, call 443-573-1700 or visit artbma.org.
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*볼티모어 미술관의 콘 컬렉션 <2> Henri Matisse
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