Scrappy Women
Reclaiming women from the castaway pile and putting them front and center.
The Scrappy Women Project is my contribution to correcting the imbalance of female representation in art and art history. I take studio scraps - discarded, under appreciated, overlooked marks and materials and use them as backdrops to showcase women artists. If the scraps resonate with the artist being portrayed without being too forced or contrived, so much the better.
Some version of the following sentence, from Wikipedia’s entry on French sculptor Camille Claudel, appears over and over as you research women artists:
“She died in relative obscurity, but later gained recognition for the originality and quality of her work.”
I welcome suggestions to continue filling out the ranks beyond Frida Kahlo, Georgia O’Keefe, Grandma Moses, Mary Cassatt and yes, even Artemisia Gentileschi. As mostly women continue to send me ideas for the series, I’m awestruck at the wellspring of talent, and fit to be tied at how many I’ve never heard of. Please send more. There are way too many gaps to fill.
See my Instagram feed to read more about these remarkable artists.
