‘Nice Girls Sculptors’ Surveys Extra Than 300 Trailblazing Artists By way of 500 Years of Historical past — Colossal




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August 14, 2024

Kate Mothes

a sculpture made of all-pink found objects, topped with the torso of a female mannequin that appears to be opening a huge skirt to reveal shelves of objects and a sign that reads "today will be AWESOME"

Portia Munson, “At present Will Be Superior” (2022), discovered pink objects, pink artificial material and cloths, model, salvaged spherical bar desk, and deconstructed secretary desk/cupboard, 72 × 60 × 70 inches. Photograph by JSP Artwork Images, courtesy of P·P·O·W, New York. All photos © the artists, courtesy of Phaidon, shared with permission

Celebrating greater than 300 trailblazing artists, Nice Girls Sculptors, forthcoming from Phaidon, surveys half a millennium of outstanding work from the Renaissance to immediately. At greater than 340 pages, the quantity is organized alphabetically, aligning among the best-known names from historical past with artists making waves immediately.

Yayoi Kusama’s colourful polka dots, Portia Munson’s feminist found-object evocations, and Mária Bartuszová’s ethereal plaster types are showcased alongside Louise Nevelson’s monumental constructions and Barbara Hepworth’s intimate stone silhouettes. Every artist is represented by an art work key to their profession and general oeuvre, together with a bite-size introduction to their work and its significance within the context of the ever-evolving artwork historic canon. If you happen to’re a frequent Colossal reader, you’ll acknowledge others like Wangechi Mutu, Joana Vasconcelos, Simone Leigh, Rebecca Manson, Kiki Smith, and Tara Donovan.

Nice Girls Sculptors is slated for launch on September 24, and you may pre-order your copy now within the Colossal Store. You may additionally get pleasure from testing different books on this sequence, together with Nice Girls Painters and Nice Girls Artists.

 

a freestanding sculpture of porcelain leaves as if they have been thrown up in the air and suspended there

Rebecca Manson, “Gale” (2021), porcelain, glaze, metal, adhesives, foam, {hardware}, enamel, and magnets, 88 × 68 × 72 inches. Photograph by Lance Brewer

an abstract wall sculpture by Holly Hendry featuring blue and peach curbed shapes with a cast of a hand suspended off the end of the right side

Holly Hendry, “Physique Language” (2022), jesmonite, pigment, rock, metal, and paint, 40 3/4 × 30 1/4 × 6 7/8 inches. Photograph by Todd-White Artwork Images, courtesy of Stephen Friedman Gallery

a spread from the book 'Great Women Sculptors' featuring two artists

an abstract freestanding sculpture by Helen Escobedo featuring geometric facets and circular cutouts in black, red, blue, and yellow

Helen Escobedo, “Eclipse from the sequence Muros Dinámicos (Dynamic Partitions)” (1968), lacquered wooden, 79 1/8 × 29 7/8 × 28 3/4 inches. Photograph by Ramiro Chaves, courtesy of Proyectos Monclova

a suspended, abstract, billowing textile sculpture by Rana Begum made of pieces of toile fabric

Rana Begum, “No. 1048 Mesh” (2020, powder-coated galvanized mesh, 153 1/2 × 232 1/4 × 110 1/4 inches, courtesy of Begum Studio and Kate MacGarry Gallery

a spread from the book 'Great Women Sculptors' featuring two artists

a mixed-media sculpture by Nicole Eisenman depicting abstract figures on a wooden platform in a muted gallery space

Nicole Eisenman, “Maker’s Muck” (2022), plaster, clay, seashell, and so forth., 103 1/4 × 120 × 155 1/4 inches. Photograph by Thomas Barratt, courtesy of Anton Kern Gallery

an abstract wall sculpture made of plaster that has been formed around balloons or other objects

Mária Bartuszová, “Untitled” (1985), plaster and string, 41 3/8 × 52 3/4 × 15 3/8 inches. Photograph by Michael Brzezinski, courtesy of The Property of Maria Bartuszová, Košice, and Alison Jacques, London

the cover of the book 'Great Women Sculptors' with white text on a red background with abstract blue and yellow shapes

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