ARTICLE | Female artists take centre stage in 2023
December 20, 2023 - Florence Hallett for The New European
Perle Fine, Painting No. 56, c. 1954, Oil on canvas, 60 x 56 in
Action, Gesture, Paint, Women Artists and Global Abstraction 1940–70
Whitechapel Gallery, London
February 9 - May 7, 2023
"Perhaps the most dramatic was at the Whitechapel Gallery in London, where the curators of Action, Gesture, Paint defenestrated the aggressively white American male domain of Abstract Expressionism to champion an entire generation of 81 international artist women. We’re not talking second-rate copycats: painters like Lee Krasner, Helen Frankenthaler, Perle Fine and Judith Godwin were a respected part of the New York scene, promoted alongside Barnett Newman, Mark Rothko and Jackson Pollock by the painter and gallerist Betty Parsons." - continue reading
https://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/female-artists-take-centre-stage-in-2023/
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