“This exhibition presents more than 50 works from across the Brooklyn Museum’s collections. Following the 2018 exhibition Half the Picture: A Feminist Look at the Collection, Out of Place also explores collection works anew through an intersectional feminist framework. Out of Place features more than forty artists from remarkably different contexts whose unconventional materials and approaches call for a broader and more dynamic understanding of modern and contemporary art.
Examining how contexts change the way we see art, Out of Place: A Feminist Look at the Collection showcases artists who have traditionally been seen as ‘out of place’ in most major collecting museums. The exhibition is organized around three distinct cultural contexts for making and understanding creativity—museums and art spaces, place-based practices, and the domestic sphere—and explores significant histories that have been, until recently, overlooked and undervalued, despite their influence outside of the mainstream. Out of Place traces how cultural institutions are challenged and changed by the ways artists work. Over half of the works in the exhibition are on view for the very first time, including important collection objects as well as significant new acquisitions, such as highlights from the recent Souls Grown Deep Foundation Gift of works by Black artists of the American South.” — Brooklyn Museum
Installation view, Out of Place: A Feminist Look at the Collection. Photo: Jonathan Dorado.
Installation view, Out of Place: A Feminist Look at the Collection. Photo: Jonathan Dorado.
Installation view, Out of Place: A Feminist Look at the Collection. Photo: Jonathan Dorado.
Installation view, Out of Place: A Feminist Look at the Collection. Photo: Jonathan Dorado.
Installation view, Out of Place: A Feminist Look at the Collection. Photo: Jonathan Dorado.
Installation view, Out of Place: A Feminist Look at the Collection. Photo: Jonathan Dorado.
Installation view, Out of Place: A Feminist Look at the Collection. Photo: Jonathan Dorado.
Installation view, Out of Place: A Feminist Look at the Collection. Photo: Jonathan Dorado.
Artists featured include Louise Bourgeois, Beverly Buchanan, Chryssa, Thornton Dial, Helen Frankenthaler, Lourdes Grobet, Louise Nevelson, Dorothea Rockburne, Betye Saar, Miriam Schapiro, Judith Scott, Joan Snyder, and May Wilson, among others.
Out of Place: A Feminist Look at the Collection is curated by Catherine Morris, Senior Curator for the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, and Carmen Hermo, Associate Curator, Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art.
Title image: Photograph by Corrado Serra.
*PLEASE NOTE: Brooklyn Museum is temporarily closed to the public.