The Modern’s sensational ‘Women Painting Women’ exhibition aims to balance the scales

Matthew Bourbon | The Dallas Morning News | 23rd June 2022

Aware of the underrepresentation of women in post-war figurative art, a “magnificent” Texas show comprises just works of women, by women. As one would expect, women’s “realistic complexity” is revealed in states of “realness, abjection, beauty, complications, everydayness”. Not all these works are factual – “anytime an artist depicts a human being there is fiction involved”. It’s just that we can see a diversity of fictions, “outside of male interpretations of the female body”.