womenartists – Painting After Art is Dead

Hedda Sterne

I first blogged about Hedda in early 2020 because I was so over the moon to see MOMA give Hedda her due in their (at the time) new gallery reconfiguration. Hedda has a prominent place in Art History as the only woman Artist featured in Nina Leen’s iconic Life Magazine photograph of the New York Abstract Expressionist group’s “membership” (below).

Jason at Two Coats has words about the recent Dreamscapes at Van Doren Wexter.

I am continually in awe of the #9thstreetwomen* and their truly Modernist commitment to artistic practice- they always made work, even as their male counterparts (and spouses!) stole the limelight. *Speaking of the now well known tome, enjoy this interview (YouTube video in link) with author Mary Gabriel (I know I will).

#heddasterne

Anne Wehrley Björk

Edward at White Hot says Anne has “verve.”

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Laura Newman

catches the attention of Adam Simon, who notes that in her newest there’s a “manic energy” but “also a high degree of control and an extensive repertoire of incidental mark making” (Newman uses novel combinations of materials – acrylic and oil paint, flashe, spray paint, and ink).

#lauranewman

Rocío Sáenz

(From Iron Gallery in Chicago) With a career defined by experimentation and spatial exploration, Rocío Sáenz transforms her experiences into an artistic proposal that challenges boundaries. Her work has been exhibited across the Americas, Europe, and Asia, earning her accolades such as the Chihuahua Award in Arts and Sciences and the Pedro Coronel Painting Biennial. More

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Jane Haimes

Michael Brennan is a big fan of abstraction and of Jane. The title of his essay creates high expectations of course and is still worth the read. Also since I’m trying to draw more connections this year I’ll note that readers who like Jane should check out Osamu and Lorser, and Thomas who was the best living American painter for most of my life.

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Terri Friedman

Originally trained as a painter and sculptor, Friedman began weaving in 2014 and found that the repetitive, tactile process was meditative and allowed her to merge formal aspects of both practices (from Rewire in 2020 at Cue Foundation).

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Susanna Tanger

Natasha Sweeten recounts her history with the artist, noting that her paintings (seemed) to grow from concentrated, layered planes of light, before diving into an interview. Below is titled “Listening to the Ocean.”
#susannatanger

Jemima Murphy

I really enjoy (as regular readers know) wistfully if also mildly resentfully perusing Two Coat’s NYC gallery guides. This Jan’s features Jemima’s Wild Reveries at Anat Ebgi (as well as plugging new work by Dona and Jacqueline). Yeah, I sort of think of Ross a little bit also.

#jemimamurphy

Joy Drury Cox

(a few months ago) Jennifer Dudley at Burnaway had some words about Joy’s approach to (what I will call) the architecture of information. If you like the pieces you should also check out Travis and Stanley if you haven’t already. Below is not the work addressed in the article btw ( more here).

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Jade Mellor

was one of three artists in Triple Hits at Barbara Davis. Philip at Burnaway has words noting that Mellor’s digitally and hand-worked photographic distortion challenges straightforward communication.

#jademellor

Shaikha Al Mazrou

Danielle at Artsy ranks the 10 best public art works installed in 2025 (international version in case you were wondering) and points at Shaikha’s Deliberate Pauses. Mazrou’s practice is anchored in history of art, borrowing formally from minimalism and intellectually from conceptual art. Influenced by artists from the Modernist and Bauhaus Movements – such as Paul Klee, Carle Andre and Wassily Kandinsky – Al Mazrou uses the formal aspects of minimalism to engage in a current fascination with materiality in art.

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Agrade Camíz

Agrade Camiz channels trauma and her youth spent in Rio’s graffiti scene into sensual, urban paintings (she is in Artsy’s Vanguard along with Geoffroy and Sayan).

#agradecamiz

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