‘Radical Women’ of Latin American Art at Hammer Museum
BY MODERN PAINTERS | SEPTEMBER 21, 2017
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Limitada (Limited), 1978, by Marie Oresanz (Argentine, born 1936). Black-and-white photograph, 35 X 50 cm.
(Courtesy Collection of Mari e Orensanz; courtesy Alejandra Von Hartz Gallery. ©Mari e Orensanz)
“Radical Women: Latin American Art, 1960–1985” will be on view at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles from September 15 through December 31.
As a part of “Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA” — an effort by Getty and other arts institutions across Southern California to explore the birth of the Los Angeles art scene— “Radical Women” brings a fresh perspective to the work of a cross-section of internationally influential women artists who helped shape experimental art in Latin America and the United States between 1960 and 1985. The show’s organizers say it aims to address a vacuum in art history, giving visibility and context to the radical and feminist work that was produced during these decades, but that has been underserved in the academic world. Included are an assortment of 260 works in mediums including photography and video by 116 artists from 15 countries. Lygia Pape, Ana Mendieta, and Marta Minujín are among the artists featured, but the show also includes lesser-known figures such as the Cuban-born abstract artist Zilia Sánchez, the Colombian sculptor Feliza Bursztyn, and the Argentine mixed-media artist Margarita Paksa. “The artworks in ‘Radical Women’ can be viewed as heroic acts that gave a voice to generations of women across Latin America and the United States,”says Ann Philbin, the director of the Hammer Museum.
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