Mildred Thompson, Magnetic Fields, 1991, oil on canvas, triptych, 70 1/2 x 150 inches. Courtesy of the Mildred Thompson Estate, Atlanta, Georgia art and photo © The Mildred Thompson Estate, Atlanta, Georgia.
Magnetic Fields: Expanding Abstraction, 1960s to Today at the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art in Kansas City, MO showcases three generations of abstract art created by women of color, artists typically left out of the canon of American art.
Different types of art – painting, sculpture, and installations – by 21 different artists convey the process and achievements of working in a non-representational style. See how these artist use a non-objective vocabulary to create art that, by and large, is more personally emotive and expressive than art produced by the white male artists traditionally acknowledged for this art movement in the history of art.
