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With the threat of statelessness looming, the artist kept true to form, and her citizenship status immediately became one of her materials, as in when she pinned images of her family to her chest with acupuncture needles, in a performance which she called “Recuérdame,” or “Remember Me,” performed at Pen + Brush.

With shows like this, Pen + Brush positions itself as a unique space for observing the trajectory of feminist art over time…

The familiar expression “women’s work” persists in our cultural lexicon, but five artists/activists present visions that reshape its definition in a massive and thoughtful exhibition.

Women’s Work: Art & Activism in the 21st Century features the work of five women artist-activists whose roots span the globe. Each engage the current political moment via their artmaking.

View some works from Women’s Work Art & Activism in the 21st Century at Pen + Brush, New York

In the Pen + Brush spirit of women’s involvement in activism, politics, and art, Ali reflected on the the 2017 Women’s March as a sampling of women’s work:

The next exhibition in Pen + Brush’s 125th-anniversary year features a quintet of international artists whose studio practices and activist activities challenge, if not shatter, outdated conceptions of what qualifies as “women’s work.”