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The exhibition runs through August 3

Opened June 19 at Phillips New York is the exhibition Nomen, which was curated by Arnold Lehman, Phillips' Senior Advisor and Director Emeritus of the Brooklyn Museum. It is part of Phillips X, the auction house's privale selling platform. The exhibition includes approximately 70 artists spanning the past seventy-five years, including Berenice Abbott, Diana Al-Hadid, Jennifer Bartlett, Lynda Benglis, Jenny Holzer, Agnes Martin, Elizabeth Murray, Louise Nevelson, Howardena Pindell, Susan Rothenberg, Betye Saar, Laurie Simmons, Kiki Smith, and Hannah Wike. Paintings, photographs, and sculpture offer an overview of the exceptional range and immense talent of these women artists from WWII to Today.


The Guerrilla Girls'2012 healiner still stands as a relative test of female to participation in museum permanent collections and temporary exhibitions and in the representation of women in most galleries nationwide. Nomen aims to shift this paradigm, at least temporarily, by specifically excluding works of art by men. Nomen as the title states, is an attempt to look at recent art history - one of the most innovative periods in art in modern times - only though the exceptional works of art made by these outstanding women. Indeed, the increasingly significant participation of women artists from WWII to now has spurred the very creativity, innovation, and embrace of difference that now defines American art.


Arnold Lehman said, "Nomen will aim to bring attention to the extraordinary important role of female artists in the US as America assumed the leadership of the art world. Pre-1945 most women artists in America struggled to assume their rightful place alongside their male counterparts. However, these determined women artists became increasingly central to the evolution and success of the American art community, as well as of the modern and contemporary art community worldwide."