A new exhibition highlights 80 unsung female artists from the grouping that made stars of Rothko and Pollock. But does adding them to the canon deflect from the sexism that stymied their careers?
Abstract expressionism, that all-American boys’ club, is being disbanded. In the latest revision to the overwhelmingly white and male canon of art history, east London’s Whitechapel Gallery has put together an by some 80 female artists from around the world.
Many of the works could easily be confused with the best known masterpieces of abstract expressionism, which emerged in New York in the late 1940s and made international celebrities of figures such as Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning and Mark Rothko. Although never forming an official group, these artists shared a conviction in the emotionally expressive possibilities of abstraction and its fundamental elements: paint, colour and gesture.
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