Performing Womanhood
Wednesday, May 21, 2014 · 1 - 4 PM
The Albin O. Kuhn Special Collections and Gallery present Performing Womanhood, an exhibition on display in special collections now through Saturday, May 31. Featuring portraits of women by women photographers, this exhibition displays images made from the 1920s through the 1990s. Photographs chosen for the exhibition ask viewers to consider women-only spaces and the lack of the male gaze.
Included in the show are works by Kristin Capp, Cary Beth Cryor, Judy Dater, Sandi Fellman, Peggy Fox, Mildred Grossman, Irina Ionesco, Lotte Jacobi, Mary Ellen Mark and Gerda Peterich. These artists captured famous women, anonymous women, and women with whom they share a relationship .
Performing Womanhood was curated by Jazmin Smith ’14, art history and museum studies, with help from the staff at the Albin O. Kuhn Special Collections and Library Gallery. Special Collections is located in the Albin O. Kuhn Library and open Monday through Friday 1 to 4 p.m., Thursdays until 8p.m., and by appointment. For more information call (410)-455-2353 or send an email to speccoll@umbc.edu.
Image: Ida Chagall, 1945, Lotte Jacobi
