Alum's exhibition featured on NYC-ARTS of PBS
Matrix: Prints by Women Artists, 1960–1990, a group exhibition that includes work by Julia Santos Solomon 78 PT, was featured in a January 2023 episode of NYC-ARTS.
The segment is described as “A trip to the Hudson River Museum in Yonkers for Matrix: Prints by Women Artists, 1960–1990. The exhibition explores a period of experimentation in printmaking among women artists. The prints on view include the work of artists such as Faith Ringgold, Barbara Kohl-Spiro, Julia Santos Solomon, and Emma Amos.”
Matrix will be on view until April 2, 2023. The full episode from NYC-ARTS is available to watch online.
About the exhibition
Printmaking has served as a stepping stone for many women artists, enabling their work to reach the masses thanks to its accessible form. Matrix: Prints by Women Artists, 1960–1990 explores a period of experimentation in printmaking among women artists, who used the art form as a means of creative expression and also a way to enter the male-dominated art market. Historically, women artists had encountered institutional barriers to success in the fine arts, including a lack of access to formal training, exhibitions, and sales. The 1960s ushered in an era of massive social change, including the feminist movement, which sought equal rights and opportunities and greater personal freedom for women. It became a period of great artistic experimentation and collaboration.
In printmaking, a matrix is the plate, block, or screen that holds the ink. More generally, it is defined as something within or from which something else originates, develops, or takes form. Artists such as Minna Citron, Chryssa, Helen Frankenthaler, Louise Nevelson, Faith Ringgold, and Julia Santos Solomon experimented with the medium during these three decades and became a formidable matrix from which a new generation of printmakers would develop. Individually and collectively, these artists expanded the genre through their mastery of technique and collaboration, while defining and broadening a new, more inclusive voice and visual language. They are now role models to embolden a new generation.
