Perceptive Strokes: Women Artists from Panama

The IDB Cultural Center presents the exhibition entitled Perceptive Strokes: Women Artists from Panama. The exhibition underscores the history of modern and contemporary art by Panamanian women and includes paintings, photographs, sculptures, and video art from the 1920s to present time. Selected by Panamanian curator Dr. Monica E. Kupfer, the works reveal the ways in which a varied group of female artists have experienced and represented significant geopolitical events in their nation's history.

"Although they share gender and geography, the women artists in the exhibition Perceptive Strokes are not similar," states curator Kupfer. "Their years of birth range from the 1880s to the 1970s, and their exposure to artistic and formal education varies from being self-taught to holding graduate degrees in fine arts. The group includes a working single mother as well as a former First Lady; young artists, but also painters who have passed away."

Some of the artists participating in the exhibiton include: Susana Arias, Beatrix (Trixie) Briceño, Fabiola Buritica, Coqui Calderón, María Raquel Cochez, Donna Conlon, Isabel De Obaldía, Sandra Eleta, Ana Elena Garuz, Teresa Icaza, Iraida Icaza, Amelia Lyons de Alfaro, Lezlie Milson, Rachelle Mozman, Roser Muntañola de Oduber, Amalia Rossi de Jeanine, Olga Sánchez, Olga Sinclair, Victoria Suescum, Amalia Tapia, Alicia Viteri, and Emily Zhukov.

The artworks on display were loaned from the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo in Panama and private collections also from Panama, as well as from the Art Museum of the Americas of the Organization of American States (OAS).

The exhibition is free and open to the public
through June 1, 2013, Monday to Sunday from 11:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. A color catalog complements the exhibition.