The Milton Resnick and Pat Passlof Foundation Presents “The Feminine in Abstract Painting”

The Milton Resnick and Pat Passlof Foundation presents The Female in Summary Portray, curated by Jennifer Samet and Andrea Belag, on view in New York Town by means of July 15.

This group exhibition consists of paintings by Etel Adnan, Candida Alvarez, Lisa Beck, Andrea Belag, Lecia Dole-Recio, Pam Glick, Joanne Greenbaum, Clare Grill, Mary Heilmann, Shirley Kaneda, Al Loving, Jiha Moon, Rebecca Morris, James (Jamie) Nares, Pat Passlof, Sandira Payne, Erika Ranee, Miriam Schapiro, Peter Shear, Alan Shields, Amy Sillman, and Lesley Vance.

Accompanying the exhibition is a catalogue that includes “Soft Electrical power,” an essay by Jennifer Samet, and “Painting and its Other folks: In the Realm of the Feminine” by Shirley Kaneda, first revealed in Arts Magazine in 1991.

Shirley Kaneda, “Furtive Prominence” (2022) acrylic on canvas, 48 x 33 inches (courtesy the artist)

The Female in Summary Portray explores the feminine through aesthetics, not identification or gender. These inventive decisions, for illustration, benefit from an open-finished approach and vulnerability — just one have to identify the trauma of obtaining performs by females described as “feminine” disparagingly, as something an artist have to get over. Nonetheless, through today’s lens, we can assess and establish a richer comprehension that is not defined by success or absence thereof. The exhibition considers the historical foundation of one’s associations with the feminine and attracts notice to how we decide what to categorize as these types of.

The painter Lecia Dole-Recio considers her abstraction political: “I imagine about non-hierarchical environments. That informs how I make operate. If one particular point is coming forward far too substantially, you have to balance it by producing a different space a minimal louder… The best is not currently being needed to outline oneself as a single factor or one more, in terms of gender or sexual orientation. That is what I indicate by ambiguity: anything that is not essentially described to you ideal absent.”

Al Loving, “Elliestrip” (1978), combined media on paper collage, 79 x 70 inches (courtesy the Estate of Al Loving and Garth Greenan Gallery)

Co-curator Jennifer Samet concludes, “I am compelled by painting that seduces, rather than declares, and this is a form of ‘soft power’ I associate with the female. The room of wish among longing and obtaining — which painting, especially abstraction, in the long run represents — is its electric power.”

Imagined for the Milton Resnick and Pat Passlof Foundation with treatment to modern gender discourse, The Female in Summary Portray synthesizes 6 several years of assumed among the curators. Samet describes the feminine as a slippery notion, but a rewarding one, and worthy of the risk.

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Andrea Belag, “For Justin Wallace” (2021), oil and mixed media on linen, 48 x 60 inches (courtesy the artist and Beinvenu Steinberg & J)

Pam Glick, “Untitled” (2021), oil on canvas 60 x 60 inches (courtesy the artist)

This exhibition software is supported, in part, by community money from the New York Metropolis Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the Town Council.