New Exhibitions Open at The Heckscher Museum

The new exhibitions, You Go Girl! Celebrating Women Artists and Men at Work open at The Heckscher Museum of Art on Saturday, December 5, 2015.

You Go Girl! Celebrating Women Artists presents more than 50 artists from the late-19th century through today. Working in representational and abstract syles, the artists in You Go Girl! express a wide range of concerns that often mirror those of their male colleagues, while sometimes challenging traditional artistic boundaries and male authority. You Go Girl! closes a year of exhibitions drawn exclusively from the Museum’s Permanent Collection, in celebration of our 95th anniversary.

Men at Work is a selection of works from the Permanent Collection that reveals the many facets of human endeavor. Men of thought, laborers, entertainers, and men of action represent the breadth of human experience and the significant role of disparate activities in man’s history. In paintings, sculpture, and photographs, artists have depicted intellectuals, sailors, farmers, miners, and soldiers, capturing aspects of their emotional life as well as their physical labor.

You Go Girl! and Men at Work are sponsored in part by Frank Lourenso & Gary Stevens - Morgan Stanley Wealth Management and by The John Hahn Foundation.

Image:

Audrey Flack, Lady Madonna, 1972. Heckscher Museum of Art; Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Samuel S. Mandel. Courtesy of the Louis K. Meisel Gallery & Audrey Flack.