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Season 2 Episode 2: Women Abstract Expressionists of San Francisco

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Episode Summary:

Last week we learned about Bernice Bing and this week we zoom out for a look at a social space she frequented. The circle of women abstract expressionists living and working in San Francisco experienced a dearth of national attention due to their great physical distance from New York. Also a direct result of that physical and financial distance, their creative practices were allowed much greater creative freedom.


Episode Sources:

  • The Other Art History: The Gay, Lesbian and Female Abstract Expressionists (Part II)
  • An essay titled, “The Advantages of Obscurity: Women Abstract Expressionists in San Francisco” which Taylor found in a book called “Women of Abstract Expressionism”
  • Rehistoricizing the Time Around Abstract Expressionism in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1950s to 1960s


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    • Hosted by Jaymee Harvey Willms and Taylor Barstow
    • Production by Taylor Barstow
    • Trumpet sound effects by Kurt Harvey Willms
    • Non-trumpet sound effects from zapsplat.com


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