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November 2007 to January 2008
The Claiming Space exhibition showcases nineteen founders of the Feminist Art Movement in America,
emphasizing their large-scale, innovative, and politically confrontational
pieces of the 1970s. For these artists, claiming physical space was an empowering
act, a metaphor for asserting the political and cultural identity that had
been denied to women in the public arena. Co-curated by Norma Broude and Mary
D. Garrard, themselves pioneering feminist scholars and AU professors, Claiming
Space focuses on multiple aspects of
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Miriam Schapiro
Anatomy of a Kimono (detail), 1975-76
Galerie Bruno Bischofberger, Zurich, Switzerland
Yolanda M. López
Portrait of the Artist as the Virgin of Guadalupe, 1978
Artist's collection; on loan to the
National Museum of Mexican Art, Chicago, IL
May Stevens
Big Daddy Paper Doll, 1970
Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. S. Zachary Swidler
Betsy Damon
Betsy Damon as The 7,000 Year Old Woman
Street performance, New York, 1977
Artist's collection
Cynthia Mailman, God, 1977
Private collection
From Sister Chapel, an installation by thirteen artists
at P. S. 1, Queens, New York, January 1, 1978
Faith Ringgold, The Flag Is Bleeding, 1967
From the American People series (1963-67)
Collection of Faith Ringgold
Courtesy ACA Galleries
Claiming Space: Some American Feminist Originators
Exhibition catalog available from the museum
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