Articulating Activism:
Works from the Shelley and Donald Rubin Private Collection
Exhibition Opening
Thursday, March 3, 2022
6-8pm EST
Guerrilla Girls, Do Women Have to be Naked to Get Into the Met. Museum?, 2012. © Guerrilla Girls, courtesy guerrillagirls.com. [Image description: this cut out image on a yellow background with text is based on La Grande Odalisque (1814) by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, it features a woman lying sideways on cushions to the left of the image, she has a snarling gorilla mask and holds a fan in her right hand. The text on the piece towards the right is the title of the piece followed by “Less than 4% of the artists in the Modern Art sections are women, but 76% of the nudes are female.”]
The Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation is pleased to present Articulating Activism: Works from the Shelley and Donald Rubin Private Collection. Predominantly drawn from their Art and Social Justice Collection, which began in 2015, the formation of this branch of the collection celebrates the prescience and power of art at this particular location and moment in history. The exhibition will also encompass work from other areas of concentration in the Rubins’ collection, namely contemporary art from the Himalayan region and Cuba. Each of the artists are devoted to finding solutions rather than simply highlighting problems, visualizing issues that have been previously obscured, overlooked, or ignored.
Featured artists and artist groups: ACT UP, Belkis Ayón, Firelei Báez, Abel Barroso, María Magdalena Campos-Pons, Tony Cokes, Ángel Delgado, Antonia Eiriz, Carlos Garaicoa, Guerrilla Girls, Gonkar Gyatso, Hock E Aye Vi Edgar Heap of Birds, Shaun Leonardo, Cannupa Hanska Luger, Armando Mariño, Carlos Martiel, Frank Martínez, Mary Mattingly, Ana Mendieta, Cirenaica Moreira, Michael Rakowitz, Hunter Reynolds and George Lyter, Dread Scott, Tsherin Sherpa, José Ángel Toirac, Betty Tompkins, Chungpo Tsering, José Ángel Vincench, and Jorge Wellesley.
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