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New York: Barbara Yoshida, 100 portraits, Women Artists

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Salena Art Gallery presents the exhibition One Hundred Portraits: Women Artists by the American photographer Barbara Yoshida, a fascinating photographic survey of women artists through portraits that reveal a key aspect of each artist’s identity. Yoshida’s historic and unprecedented series celebrating women artists will be on view during Women’s History Month. This marks the U.S. premiere of the exhibition that debuted at the National Museum in Poland in 2010.
Since 1990, Yoshida has travelled the world to document more than one hundred women in their studios and homes. Her diverse subjects, who range from art world luminaries to artists starting their careers, work in a variety of styles with no distinction between fine art and craft. Collectively, they can be seen as a community of artists that fearlessly pushes forward the boundaries of art making.
 
In addition to featuring portraits of Lynda Benglis, Louise Bourgeois, Colette, Judy Chicago, Kim Dingle, Julie Heffernan, Deborah Kass, Elizabeth Murray, Veronica Ryan, Betye Saar, Hannah Wilke and Alicja Żebrowska (all pictured here), Yoshida expanded her project to include women working outside European and American traditions of making art. In 2010, Yoshida traveled to The Gambia in West Africa to photograph women there who make exquisite batik and tie-dyed fabrics in the tradition of their ancestors. They along with other traditional craft artists who Yoshida has photographed, give the project a depth that is essential for inclusiveness. Seen here are West African textile artist Maladao Camara Sidibeh, Native American artist Shona-Hah (Cherokee for Gray Dove), and ceramic artist Toshiko Takaezu
 
A feminist who believes in collaboration, Yoshida talks with the artists about their work and lives until they fall into natural poses that Yoshida sees as revealing and authentic. Before she begins a session, Yoshida tells her subject that she will allow her to approve the images that can be published. Believing that every woman should have the right to control which of her images is released into the world, Yoshida’s approach frees the artist from concerns about misrepresentation, establishes trust, and results in better portraits.Yoshida seeks out women artists who are unafraid to explore their identity or notions of sexuality. Their art was often dismissed at first as too female or transgressive, only to be hailed later as groundbreaking.
 
Work by some of the artists portrayed by Yoshida will be contributed to the exhibition. The list of participating women, still in formation, includes artists from the United States and around the world: Candida Alvarez (U.S.), Sara Berti (Italy), Peggy Cyphers (U.S.), Marta Deskur (Poland), Julie Heffernan (U.S.), Zsuzsanna Kemenesi (Hungary), Li-lan (U.S.), Luce (France), Susan Silas (U.S.), Chrysanne Stathacos (Canadian; living in NY), Rella Stuart- Hunt (U.S.), May Sun (U.S.), Marcela Taboada (Mexico) and Hannah Wilke (U.S.)
 
About the Artist
Barbara Yoshida is an American visual artist. She was born in Portland, Oregon, and now lives in New York City. She began her Women Artists’ Portrait series in the 1990s at a time when women were becoming visible in numbers in the art world, yet continued to be unseen by the general public. Yoshida’s exhibition of her Women Artists’ Portrait series will have its premiere in the United States at Long Island University in Brooklyn in 2015. Yoshida is represented in various collections including Museet for Fotokunst, Denmark; Southeast Museum of Photography; Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum; The Huntington Gardens Art Collection; Polaroid Corporation; and Light Work. She received her M.A. at Hunter College, and her B.A. at University of Washington. She lives in New York City. 
Work by Yoshida from another long-term project is gathered together in Yoshida’s first monograph, Moon Viewing: Megaliths by Moonlight (Marquand Books, 2014) that was published last year to critical acclaim. Yoshida traveled to fifteen countries on three continents to photograph ritual megalithic stones bathed in moonlight. In April 2015, an accompanying solo exhibition of these images will open at Umbrella Arts, 317 East 9th Street, Manhattan. Details coming soon.

EXHIBITION
100 Portraits: Women Artists by Barbara Yoshida
From March 3rd to 27th, 2015
Salena Art Gallery LIU Brooklyn
Library Learning Center,
Ground Floor 1 University Plaza
Brooklyn, NY 11201
United States

Salena Art Gallery, LIU Brooklyn  – Salena Art Gallery, LIU Brooklyn
Barbara Yoshida – Barbara Yoshida
 

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