Put It This Way unites almost a century of work by 49 women and nonbinary artists in a range of media drawn exclusively from the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden’s permanent collection, including an early glass mosaic work by Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian. The exhibition includes works that have never been on view, as well as recent acquisitions thatreflect the museum’s mission to acquire and highlight global voices.
Titled after a 1963 painting by American pop artist Rosalyn Drexler, whose work is featured in the first gallery, Put It This Way speaks to traditionally marginalized artists’ decisive and virtuosic achievements, and investigates a wide array of aesthetic, political and historical concerns. The full-floor presentation is intended to encourage conversations around the significance of gender in creating and perceiving an artwork, the effects of categorizing artists by gender as well as the museum’s role and responsibilities in stewarding the national collection of modern and contemporary art.
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