While Texas is well known for its representational and figurative art, during the mid-twentieth century a number of artists began to explore the possibilities of abstraction instead. Yet despite decades of artistic production, the contributions of women artists in Texas have not been fully examined. Texas Women, the first large-scale exhibition to focus on women abstract artists living and working in Texas, both expands the narrative of American abstraction and celebrates Texas as a vital art scene where women’s unique artistic visions continue to thrive. Organized and presented by SAMA, the exhibition will be on view through May 3, 2020.

Texas Women brings together seventeen artists and ninety-five works in various media, including painting, sculpture, drawing, and installation. The work can be broadly categorized by the artist’s motivating ideas and processes—from the organic, gestural, and improvisational to the structural, systemic, and schematic. There are also connecting themes, such as the sensed or felt landscape; presence of the body; seriation and repetition; and the intersection of analog and digital worlds. “While the artists’ approaches differ and the number of years in which they have been creating art might vary—from over four decades to less than one—their works reflect an ongoing and rigorous commitment to their artistic vision; to pushing their ideas, materials, and processes; and to creating new experiences for their audiences that stimulate reflections about art and the times in which we are living,” said Suzanne Weaver, the Museum’s Brown Foundation Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art.

The artists included are: Sara Cardona (b. 1971, Mexico City), Pat Colville (b. 1931), Sharon Engelstein (b. 1965), Dana Frankfort (b. 1971), Linnea Glatt (b. 1949), Dorothy Hood (1918–2000), Terrell James (b. 1955), Dorothy Antoinette “Toni” LaSelle (1901–2002), Annette Lawrence (b.1965), Catherine Lee (b. 1950), Constance Lowe (b. 1951), Marcelyn McNeil (b. 1965), Susie Rosmarin (b. 1950), Margo Sawyer (b. 1958), Lorraine Tady (b. 1967), Liz Trosper (b. 1983), and Liz Ward (b. 1960).

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To register tickets for the online event, Texas Women: A New History of Abstract Art, see here.