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WHO: Komal Shah, creator, The Shah Garg Foundation; Sabine Eckmann, the William T. Kemper Director and chief curator, Kemper Art Museum; Cecilia Alemani, the Donald R. Mullen Jr. Director and chief curator of High Line Art, New York.
WHAT: Exhibition launch, “Leaving Their Imprint: Pieces from the Shah Garg Collection”
WHERE: Kemper Art Museum, Washington University in St. Louis
EVENTS: Panel conversation: 5:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 12, Steinberg Hall Auditorium. Opening gathering to immediately follow at 6:30 p.m. in the museum.
ABOUT THE EXHIBITION: “Leaving Their Imprint” stands as the most significant exhibition that the Kemper Art Museum has ever showcased. It unites over 80 pieces by a diverse and international array of women artists represented in the San Francisco Bay Area–based Shah Garg Collection.
The exhibition is divided into six segments reflecting vital thematic connections: Gestural Abstraction, Painting and Technology, Craft as Art, Of Selves and Spirits, Disobedient Bodies, and Luminous Abstraction. Each segment contrasts creations by emerging artists with the groundbreaking contributions of their predecessors, highlighting how earlier generations anticipated contemporary discussions surrounding abstraction and representation, identity and power, as well as hybridity and performativity.
Noteworthy artists include Andrea Bowers, Suzanne Jackson, Julie Mehretu, Howardena Pindell, Joan Mitchell, Lorna Simpson, Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, Sarah Sze, Kay WalkingStick, and Mary Weatherford, among numerous others.
“Leaving Their Imprint” will be accessible until Jan. 5.
MEDIA PREVIEW AND AVAILABILITY: To preview the exhibition or arrange interviews with Shah, Eckmann, or Alemani, reach out to Liam Otten at 314-874-6331 or [email protected].
DIRECTIONS AND PARKING: The Kemper Art Museum is situated at the eastern end of WashU’s Danforth Campus, close to the junction of Skinker and Lindell boulevards. Validated parking will be provided in the university’s east end garage. Entrances to the garage can be found on Forsyth Boulevard and Forest Park Parkway, just west of the respective intersections with Skinker.
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