ExhibitionMarch 12, 2021
Art in Focus: Women from the Center, an exhibition to visit from home
The Yale Center for British Art presents an exhibition that celebrates women artists in the museum’s collection. Inspired by Yale University’s celebration of 50 years of coeducation in Yale college and 150 years of coeducation in Yale graduate programs, Art in Focus: Women From the Center highlights women artists whose inventive art practices have enabled them to stake out space in the art world. The title for this exhibition references both the use of the Center’s collection and Lucy Lippard’s influential collection of feminist essays, From the Center (1976).
"Although the Center remains closed to the public, we are eager to bring more of our collections into view. This exhibition, foregrounding women artists and curated by Yale undergraduates, was originally planned for last spring. More than a year in the making, the display is now presented online for remote audiences from New Haven and beyond,” said Director Courtney J. Martin.
The artists featured in this display work across a broad spectrum of media, styles, and techniques and span a similar time range to the coeducation of the graduate programs at Yale—the nineteenth century to the present day. In addition to works from the Center’s collections, the exhibition includes loans from the artist Rina Banerjee (Yale MFA 1995), an alumna of the School of Art, which in 1869 became the first coeducational school at Yale.
Art in Focus: Women from the Center was curated by Emma Gray, SY ’21; Sunnie Liu, JE ’21; Annie Roberts, SY ’21; Christina Robertson, SM ’22; and Olivia Thomas, MC ’20. The students were led by Linda Friedlaender, Head of Education; Jennifer Reynolds-Kaye, former Educator, School and Community Outreach; and Rachel Stratton, former Postdoctoral Research Associate.The exhibition and accompanying online presentation were generously supported by the Marlene Burston Fund and the Dr. Carolyn M. Kaelin Memorial Fund.
Visit the exhibition at: https://britishart.yale.edu/exhibitions-programs/art-focus-women-center
"Although the Center remains closed to the public, we are eager to bring more of our collections into view. This exhibition, foregrounding women artists and curated by Yale undergraduates, was originally planned for last spring. More than a year in the making, the display is now presented online for remote audiences from New Haven and beyond,” said Director Courtney J. Martin.
The artists featured in this display work across a broad spectrum of media, styles, and techniques and span a similar time range to the coeducation of the graduate programs at Yale—the nineteenth century to the present day. In addition to works from the Center’s collections, the exhibition includes loans from the artist Rina Banerjee (Yale MFA 1995), an alumna of the School of Art, which in 1869 became the first coeducational school at Yale.
Art in Focus: Women from the Center was curated by Emma Gray, SY ’21; Sunnie Liu, JE ’21; Annie Roberts, SY ’21; Christina Robertson, SM ’22; and Olivia Thomas, MC ’20. The students were led by Linda Friedlaender, Head of Education; Jennifer Reynolds-Kaye, former Educator, School and Community Outreach; and Rachel Stratton, former Postdoctoral Research Associate.The exhibition and accompanying online presentation were generously supported by the Marlene Burston Fund and the Dr. Carolyn M. Kaelin Memorial Fund.
Visit the exhibition at: https://britishart.yale.edu/exhibitions-programs/art-focus-women-center
