Pat Passlof featured in exhibition at The Wichita Art Museum

Abstract Expressionism—born in the 1940s and 1950s and the first global American art style—features huge, colorful canvases filled with abstract shapes and forms. Although the story of Abstract Expressionism has mostly foregrounded a few larger-than-life, paint-splattered men like Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning, women artists played a huge role in the origins and development of the movement. They were not merely acolytes or interpreters of the style but ambitious innovators all their own.

Featuring more than 40 canvases made by 30 women, Abstract Expressionists: The Women brings some of the most important women artists of any century—such as Grace Hartigan and Helen Frankenthaler—to Wichita.

Abstract Expressionists: The Women is organized by the American Federation of Arts from the Christian Levett Collection and FAMM (Female Artists of the Mougins Museum), France. The exhibition is curated by Dr. Ellen G. Landau. It is generously supported by Berry Campbell Gallery, Betsy Shack Barbanell, Monique Schoen Warshaw, and Clare McKeon and the Clare McKeon Charitable Trust. Additional support has been provided by the Pollock-Krasner Foundation and the Every Page Foundation.