Berry Campbell at Intersect Aspen 2021: Women of Abstract Expressionism

Berry Campbell at Intersect Aspen 2021: Women of Abstract Expressionism
August 1-5, 2021 

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Berry Campbell will feature a finely curated exhibition of the often underrepresented and lesser-known women artists of the Postwar movement. Important women art dealers, Peggy Guggenheim and Betty Parsons, championed many Abstract Expressionist painters, including a handful of women like Elaine de Kooning, Perle Fine, Yvonne Thomas, and Judith Godwin. Guggenheim, in fact, curated one of the first thematic exhibitions titled, “Exhibition by 31 Women” (1934) for her Art of This Century Gallery. In this tradition, Martha Campbell and Christine Berry, owners of Berry Campbell Gallery, will present a similar thematic show at Intersect Aspen.

Berry Campbell has chosen a selection of paintings and works on paper by women Abstract Expressionists, many of whom are represented by Berry Campbell: Elaine de Kooning, Grace Hartigan, Perle Fine, Judith Godwin, Gertrude Greene, Yvonne Thomas, Charlotte Park, and Ida Kohlmeyer. The presentation will focus on both the dynamic gestures and contemplative fields of color that defined the Abstract Expressionist movement. These distinct styles reveal women who were unafraid to transcend their gender roles and tap into their steadfast creativity during this pivotal art historical period.

In more recent years, the accomplishment of these women painters have become increasingly acknowledged and given overdue consideration most notably in a resurgence of exhibitions of this kind. Most notably, “Women of Abstract Expressionism” organized by the Denver Museum of Art and “Making Space: Women Artists and Postwar Abstraction” organized by the Museum of Modern Art, New York, have expanded “the art historical canon."