Tag: exhibitions

  • Georgia O’Keeffe: rewarding curiosity

    Georgia O’Keeffe: rewarding curiosity

    Georgia O’Keeffe never piled on the paint. She worked wet-into-dry, pretty much a single layer of paint requiring serious control to choreograph her textural effects. Within this narrow range that she chose to work, her variations are virtuosic.

  • O’Keeffe: rapturous  possibilities

    O’Keeffe: rapturous possibilities

    I had the experience, once, of viewing an O’Keeffe exhibit that made me question what I had ever admired in the artist. The paintings felt curiously lifeless, and as a whole the show didn’t seem to add up to much. O’Keeffe understood early on that the way paintings are hung determine how they are perceived.…

  • Georgia, Julia, and the Token Woman

    Georgia, Julia, and the Token Woman

    There is no denying that O’Keeffe was an extraordinarily ambitious professional. But it does not necessarily follow that the dearth of other successful women artists was the result of her competitiveness.