A Room of Her Own

Opening Reception: Thursday, October 15, 6-8 p.m.

McClain Gallery presents A Room of Her Own, a group exhibition featuring sculptures, paintings, and works on paper by such venerable female artists as Louise Nevelson, Louise Fishman, Alice Neel, Jenny Holzer, Rebecca Horn, Tara Donovan, Cecily Brown, Judy Pfaff, Chantal Joffe, Kiki Smith, Maya Lin, Tracey Emin, and Karin Broker.  There is also a selection of emerging artists: Allison Schulnik, Kelli Vance, and Katherine Berhardt.

Throughout the exhibition is a dynamic presence of sculpture: a totemic strength of a Nevelson wall piece, a Tara Donovan accumulation, a poetic vitrine from Rebecca Horn, and an LED installation from Jenny Holzer.  A clear visual dialogue emerges between the process-oriented abstraction of Louise Fishman's richly-layered drawings.  Works by Alice Neel, Chantal Joffe, Kelli Vance, Inez van Lamsweerde and Katherine Bernhardt highlight the female form and unorthodox approaches to portraiture.