Five women artists who used pseudonyms and alternate identities to navigate the art world, reinvent themselves, and explore questions of gender, identity, and creative freedom.
Discover how Mexico City, Berlin, Paris, New Mexico, and Florence shaped the lives, perspectives, and artistic practices of five remarkable women artists.
Step inside the historic homes of Frida Kahlo, Georgia O’Keeffe, and Dora Gordine, and discover the spaces, surroundings, and creative lives that shaped their art.
Clara Peeters was one of the earliest artists to specialize in still life, quietly establishing her presence in art history through meticulously painted objects, hidden self-portraits, and tiny reflections of herself. Her paintings reveal a fascinating world of food, wealth, trade, craftsmanship, and identity.
For generations, women were encouraged to make art but discouraged from becoming professional artists. This article explores how women challenged exclusion from nineteenth-century art academies, fought for access to life drawing and professional education, and built their own institutions when established ones refused them.
Annie Richard’s intricate beadwork brings together nature, geometry, mathematics, memory, and a deeply meditative creative process. Since discovering bead embroidery in 2019, she has worked with thousands of individual glass beads to create detailed compositions featuring mandalas, circular forms, and geometric patterns. Inspired in part by her mother’s lifelong connection to beadwork, Annie sees mathematics and art as complementary ways of understanding the world. Her recent use of watercolour beneath the beadwork adds a more fluid and unexpected element to her otherwise precise practice.
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