Outside NY’s Whitney Museum and San Francisco’s Museum of Art, Lynn Hershman Leeson asked men and women on the street the following question: “Can anyone name three women artists?” It’s difficult to gauge who is more disappointed: the filmmaker asking the question or each of the individuals, stumped. Two people could only remember Frida Kahlo. This is how Lynn Hershman Leeson begins her personal survey of feminist artists: !Women Art Revolution, which opens at the IFC Center in New York on June 1 with an introduction by Kathleen Hanna. During its week in New York, the film will be introduced by guest speakers at select screenings.
“It was excitement, it was empowerment, it was a lot of fucking work.”—Harmony Hammond
This documentary film was written, directed, produced and edited by a female artist who financed her portion of producing costs by selling her art. The sale of her work includes a piece purchased by a collector in the 1970s, only to be returned once he found out the artist was female.
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