The Leonard and Merle Nelson Social Justice Fund honors artists whose commitment to social justice is manifested in their work.
Tune in Thursday, May 14 at 4:30 p.m. for a live conversation between curator Jaime DeSimone and artists Carrie Moyer and Sheila Pepe, in conjunction with the exhibition Tabernacles for Trying Times.
“For people like us who have been historically excluded from the canon [of art history], what we bring to a topic like abstraction is our personal experience, which transforms canonical ideas about art or how abstraction is used.” -Carrie Moyer
As a sculptor and a painter, respectively, Sheila Pepe and Carrie Moyer occupy different arenas on the art-making spectrum. For two feminist artists who came of age during the second wave of feminism, contemporary cultural and political challenges demanded personal responses. Over the years, each woman has developed an abstract lexicon borne of her own identity as an artist, scholar, woman, lesbian, feminist, and activist.
In the 2020 Nelson Social Justice Fund Lecture, PMA Associate Curator of Contemporary Art Jaime DeSimone speaks with Carrie Moyer and Sheila Pepe to discuss how their feminist ideologies manifest in their work, as well as art and feminism’s relevancy today.
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