LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WAVE) – Abstract Expressionists: The Women opens May 16, at the Speed Art Museum, marking Kentucky\u2019s first exhibition devoted to Abstract Expressionism. <\/p>\n
The show spotlights the bold, innovative women who helped define the movement that reshaped American art in the mid-20th century. These are artists whose stories have often been overshadowed by better-known names like Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning.<\/p>\n
On view through August 30, the exhibition features work by 30+ major artists, including Helen Frankenthaler, Joan Mitchell, Vivian Springford, Grace Hartigan, and Lee Krasner. Visitors will experience these up close, emphasizing the movement\u2019s energy, emotion, and physicality.<\/p>\n
Building on the museum\u2019s recent women-focused exhibitions, the show examines post-World War II America through the 1970s, a period of experimentation that produced the first truly avant-garde art movement born in the United States. Highlights range from Frankenthaler\u2019s Circus Landscape (1951) to Springford\u2019s Scuba Series (1972\u20131984\/5), alongside archival photos, historical documents, and a timeline of women\u2019s artistic achievement to add context.<\/p>\n
Organized by the American Federation of Arts from the Christian Levett Collection and FAMM (Female Artists of the Mougins Museum), France, the exhibition is curated by Dr. Ellen G. Landau. The Speed\u2019s presentation is organized by Tyler Blackwell, Curator of Contemporary Art, and is accompanied by Abstraction, Continued: Recent Paintings from the Speed Art Museum Collection. Tickets will be available soon. Visit the Speed Art Museum website here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Copyright 2026 WAVE. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WAVE) – Abstract Expressionists: The Women opens May 16, at the Speed Art Museum, marking Kentucky\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":478051,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[267],"tags":[209352,209358,365,362,363,364,8680,366,18,117,209357,49295,19,17,209355,209354,74612,209353,209351,209356],"class_list":{"0":"post-478050","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-abstract-expressionists-the-women","9":"tag-american-federation-of-arts","10":"tag-arts","11":"tag-arts-and-design","12":"tag-artsanddesign","13":"tag-artsdesign","14":"tag-contemporary-art","15":"tag-design","16":"tag-eire","17":"tag-entertainment","18":"tag-grace-hartigan","19":"tag-helen-frankenthaler","20":"tag-ie","21":"tag-ireland","22":"tag-joan-mitchell","23":"tag-kentucky-art-museum","24":"tag-lee-krasner","25":"tag-louisville-art-museum","26":"tag-speed-art-museum","27":"tag-vivian-springford"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116551530821527992","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=478050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478050\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/478051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=478050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}