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Art at Americas Society, in collaboration with the Institute of Fine Arts at NYU, is pleased to present “Women and Abstractions in Postwar Americas,” a two-day symposium examining the contributions of women to postwar abstraction across the Americas. Join us in person or online for afternoon and evening sessions hosted at both Americas Society and The Institute of Fine Arts. The program will feature twelve speakers presenting a range of perspectives including a keynote presentation by Mónica Amor.

This symposium is organized in conjunction with the exhibition Fanny Sanín: Geometric Equations curated by Edward J. Sullivan.

Sanín's sustained and powerful engagement with geometric abstraction since her move to New York from Colombia in 1971 stands as a testament to how artists like her persevered in their formal investigations, despite facing exclusion from the art world and navigating its ever-evolving trends. We hope this symposium will foster a dialogue and comparison of the practices of postwar women-identifying artists from diverse geographies and contexts, examining their contributions to various forms of abstraction.

Speakers

Susan L. Aberth, Edith C. Blum Professor of Art History and Visual Culture, Bard College

Mónica Amor, Keynote Speaker | Professor, Maryland Institute College of Art

Laura Anderson Barbata, Transdisciplinary Artist

Francesca Ferrari, Postdoctoral Fellow, Leonard A. Lauder Research Center for Modern Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art

Elizabeth Ferrer, Independent Curator

Ana M. Franco, Associate Professor, Department of Art History, Universidad de los Andes

Vivian Li, The Lupe Murchison Curator of Contemporary Art

Mary-Kate O’Hare, Executive Director and CEO, Bruce Museum

Delia Solomons, Associate Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art, Drexel University

Rachel Vorsanger, PhD Candidate, Temple University

Manuela Well-Off-Man, Art Historian and Chief Curator, IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts

Zuna Maza, Assistant Curator, El Museo del Barrio

Remarks by

Aimé Iglesias Lukin, Director and Chief Curator of Art at Americas Society in New York

Edward J. Sullivan, Helen Gould Shepard Professor in the History of Art at the Institute of Fine Arts and College of Arts and Sciences, New York University

Learn more on the Art at Americas Society's website.

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