"Colorado Women to Watch"
Colorado Women to Watch features five widely acclaimed artists who will transform CVA’s galleries through works that defy the male-dominated narrative of art.
Work by Kim Dickey 86 CR will be shown as part of the Colorado Women to Watch exhibition, on view through October 21, 2023 at Metropolitan State University of Denver, Center for Visual Art.
About the Exhibition
The work of Kim Dickey, Ana María Hernando, Maia Ruth Lee, Suchitra Mattai and Senga Nengudi breaks through boundaries, emphasizes the strength of female artists, and reshapes our perception of power. Through various media we witness these artists repossessing the discarded and retelling subverted histories with narratives of resiliency.
“Despite the writings, legislation, and impassioned work of many people for decades to create equity in the arts, women artists do not receive the opportunities, resources or support that male artists do, still in 2023. This exhibition is a celebration and amplification of the ground-shaking, influential work of five women artists who have each developed a visual language of transcendence,” states Cecily Cullen, CVA Director & Curator.
These five artists were nominated for inclusion in the exhibition A New World: Women to Watch 2024 at the National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA) in Washington, D.C. The Women to Watch exhibition series is designed to increase the visibility of, and critical response to, promising women artists. Nominated for consideration by the Colorado Committee for the National Museum of Women in the Arts (CCNMWA), the five artists were selected to represent Colorado on the national level by Nora Burnett Abrams, Ph.D., Mark G. Falcone Director, MCA Denver. The exhibition at CVA was curated by Cecily Cullen. NMWA chose Ana María Hernando to participate in the A New World: Women to Watch 2024 exhibition.
About Kim Dickey
The ceramic sculptures of Kim Dickey (b. White Plains, NY) address the dismissal of decorative work as craft rather than art and transform perceptions of traditional decorative ceramics. Much of Dickey’s work incorporates bocage, the Rococo decorative art tradition of encasing objects in clustered, miniature flowers. Using such techniques, she creates large-scale sculpture from delicate, handmade elements traditionally used as decoration for small objects, transforming miniature into monumental.
Image credit: Kim Dickey, Mirage (solo version), 2000-2023, glazed stoneware, Cibachrome photograph, wrought iron table and chair, sand. Image by Jenna Miles.
