All tagged women artists

Jennifer Rochlin, "Painting on Clay"

Jennifer Rochlin’s show “Paintings on Clay” at Hauser + Wirth brings materiality, color and frank storytelling to sculptural pottery. A show full of impulse, humor and poignancy, “Paintings on Clay” catapults the artist to new heights of significance at a time when writings on the body, about the body and empowering the body are of the most urgent significance to women.

Mapping the Immigrant Experience with Yu-Wen Wu

Boston based multidisciplinary artist Yu-Wen Wu charts a course through some of the most complex and important issues facing our city and our planet today. Global migration, assimilation, identity, climate change, female labor and gaps left in the history of the Asian American experience all find elegant purchase in her work. Through drawing, painting, sculpture, video and site specific installation, Wu exposes new possibilities in the relationship between art and science and maps a way through longing toward hope.

Artists You Should Know: Tau Lewis

From up-cycled and repurposed textiles, artifacts, and salvaged treasures, Brooklyn based sculptor and mixed media artist Tau Lewis creates otherworldy figures who populate a mystical imaginary realm. Using labor-intesive, time-consuming practices including hand-sewing, dyeing, carving, quilting and weaving, Lewis evokes ancient mythologies from the African diaspora to create a bold and hopeful future out of carefully collected remnants of the past.