Reineke Art Gallery pays tribute to women artists
NDSU female students and alumnae used their talents to show tribute to the thousands of artists throughout history whose talents were not acknowledged because of their gender.
The third annual Women Art Exhibit opened last week to coincide with Women’s Week at NDSU.
A reception was held Tuesday to introduce the exhibit to the public. A number of the featured artists attended, and Tau Beta Sigma and a women’s choir provided music.
Artwork on display includes oil painting, drawing, photographs, collages and even an interactive piece.
The exhibit is located in the Reineke Visual Arts Gallery, across from the Festival Concert Hall in the Reineke Fine Arts Center.
Local artist Lourdes Hawley, who contributed two original works of art to the exhibit, organized the Women Art Exhibition.
The title of the Exhibit is “Invisible,” chosen to go along with Women’s Week, and the exhibit acknowledges women throughout history who were not able to receive credit because of their gender.
To go along with this year’s theme, Hawley decided to pay tribute to American artist Lee Krasner, whose own work was perhaps dwarfed by her marriage to well-known expressionist Jackson Pollock.
“She was a great artist, but her work was not visible until much later in her life,” Hawley said.
Krasner died in 1984, at age 75.
The Women Art Exhibit runs opened last week and runs until Thursday, March 8.
After the close of the exhibit, the artwork will be sold and a percentage of the proceeds will go to the Rape and Abuse Crisis Center.
Across from the Visual Arts Gallery is the NDSU Clothesline project, a series of clotheslines from which colorful T-shirts are hanging, each representing a woman affected by abuse.
Yellow and beige shirts stand for battered or assaulted women, red, pink and orange represent survivors of rape.
Survivors of incest of sexual abuse are represented by blue and green shirts, purple represents women attacked because of their sexual orientation.
White and gray shirts represent women who were murdered because of rape or abuse.