At the Allen Magazine, Fall 2025

AT THE ALLEN / FALL 2025 / 11 ON VIEW / RIPIN GALLERY / AUG 22–MAY 24 FEMME ’N ISMS, PART III: FEMININE FACES AND INTIMATE SPACES Femme ’n isms is a multi-year series of exhibitions celebrating intersectional feminist artmaking in the Allen’s collection. Inspired by a recent gift of works by Käthe Kollwitz and Lotte Jacobi, the third and final installment of Femme ’n isms features portraits of girls and women, almost entirely by women and femme-identifying artists. Half of the works are self-portraits, in which artists highlight their workspace, labor, and ingenuity. Others capture a casual exchange between acquaintances who have knowingly let their guard down to express vulnerability. Conversely, musicians, actors, and other celebrities pose as characters or types. Across more than a century, in private and in public, these subjects make deliberate decisions about how they wish to appear. Participating in the production of their representation is a crucial means of asserting agency over their image and ultimately themselves. The exhibition includes works by Emma Amos, Cecilia Beaux, Martine Gutierrez, Lotte Jacobi, Käthe Kollwitz, Marie Laurencin, Joan Semmel, Cindy Sherman, and others. Organized by SamAdams, Ellen Johnson ’33 Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art Left: Utagawa Kunisada III (Japanese, 1848–1920), Kabukisa, Sixth Month, Kyōgen, 1899. Ink on paper. Gift of Dominique H. Vasseur (OC 1973) in honor of Ronald F. Patnik and LawrenceW. Rassin, 2023.60A-C. Below: Chōbunsai Eishi 鳥文斎栄之 (Japanese, 1756–1829), Asagao (Morning Glories), from the series Scenes from the Tale of Genji, late 1780s. Color woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper. Mary A. Ainsworth Bequest, 1950.453. Above: Lotte Jacobi (German, 1896–1990), Käthe Kollwitz, ca. 1930. Gelatin silver print. Gift of AdamWerner in memory of Gloria (OC 1962) and Newton Werner, 2022.49.3.

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