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The Art of Howardena Pindell
Howardena Pindell
Untitled (1968) by Howardena Pindell. Acrylic on canvas (42 ½" x 66 ¼").
Untitled #58 (1974) by Howardena Pindell. Mixed media on board (5" x 8"). Private Collection, New York.
Untitled (1972–1973) by Howardena Pindell. Acrylic on canvas (90 ¼" x 87 ¾"). Collection Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond. Arthur and Margaret Glasgow Endowment.
Untitled #20 (Dutch Wives Circled and Squared) (1978) by Howardena Pindell. Mixed media on canvas (86" x 110"). Collection Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago.
Gift of Albert A. Robin by exchange.
Autobiography: India (Lakshmi) (1984) by Howardena Pindell. Mixed media collage on paper (17 ¾" x 26 ¾" x 2").
Untitled #4D (2009) by Howardena Pindell. Mixed media on paper collage (7" x 10").
Night Flight (2015–2016) by Howardena Pindell. Mixed media on canvas (75" x 63").
Private Collection, Frankfurt.
Nautilus #1 (2014–2015) by Howardena Pindell. Mixed media on canvas (68" x 72").
Private Collection, Windermere, Florida.
Valerie Cassel Oliver is the Sydney and Frances Lewis Family Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. Prior to this position, she spent sixteen years at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Texas, where she was senior curator. She was director of the Visiting Artist Program at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a program specialist at the National Endowment for the Arts. In 2000, she was one of six curators selected to organize the Biennial for the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. Cassel Oliver has organized numerous exhibitions including the acclaimed Double Consciousness: Black Conceptual Art Since 1970 (2005); Cinema Remixed and Reloaded: Black Women Artists and the Moving Image with Dr. Andrea Barnwell Brownlee (2009); Hand + Made: The Performative Impulse in Art and Craft (2010); and Radical Presence: Black Performance in Contemporary Art, (2012), which toured through 2015. Cassel Oliver has also mounted numerous solo exhibitions including a major retrospective on Benjamin Patterson, Born in the State of Flux/us, as well as the surveys Donald Moffett: The Extravagant Vein (2011); Jennie C. Jones: Compilation (2015); Angel Otero: Everything and Nothing (2016) and most recently, Annabeth Rosen: Fired, Broken, Gathered, Heaped (2017). Her exhibition "Howardena Pindell: What Remains to be Seen," co-organized with Naomi Beckwith, was featured at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, and the Rose Art Museum at Brandies University.
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Synthesis and Integration in the Work of Howardena Pindell, 1972–1992: A (Re) Consideration
