This month, throughout the spring, and continuing all year at museums across America, great women abstract artists of today, and their predecessors, receive a hard earned spotlight.
‘Abstract Expressionism: The Women’
Joan Mitchell’s artwork also features prominently in “Abstract Expressionists: The Women,” on view through April 26, 2026, at the Muscarelle Museum of Art in Williamsburg, VA. Long overshadowed in the story of Abstract Expressionism, women artists played a pivotal role in shaping the artistic movement; this presentation spotlights these influential women, presenting nearly 50 paintings by 32 artists.
The paintings are drawn from the renowned Christian Levett Collection and the FAMM (Female Artists of the Mougins Museum), France, meaning these artworks are not commonly on view in the United States.
“Abstract Expressionists: The Women” is supported, in part, by Berry Campbell Gallery.
Berry Campbell Gallery
Berry Campbell Gallery in New York’s exhibition program through fall of 2026 offers six solo shows spanning movements from Abstract Expressionism to Neo-Expressionism, furthering the gallery’s ongoing mission to advance the recognition and critical reassessment of significant women artists.
Southern Abstraction
Women abstract artists working in New York and Paris over the past 100 years tend to receive a lion’s share of the attention. The Ogden Museum of Southern Art in New Orleans highlights three women who expanded the boundaries of abstraction in “Vicinal Visions: Dusti Bongé, Ida Kohlmeyer & Dorthy Hood,” running March 21 through July 19, 2026. Though each of these Southern artists developed their own distinct visual language, their work shares a spirit of experimentation and Modernist sensibilities, refracted through individual lenses of personal experience and place.
— Chad Scott, Forbes
March 20, 2026
