July and August, 2022
Exhibition
A Woman’s Right To Pleasure
Previous exhibition: BlackBook with Sotheby’s, Camden Drive, LA, CA.
An art show and book about female empowerment.
A Woman’s Right To Pleasure exhibition images.
Photos by Charles White.
A Woman’s Right To Pleasure exhibition images.
Photos by Charles White.
A Woman’s Right To Pleasure exhibition images.
Photos by Charles White.
A Woman’s Right To Pleasure exhibition images.
Photos by Charles White.
A Woman’s Right To Pleasure exhibition images.
Photos by Charles White.
A Woman’s Right To Pleasure exhibition images.
Photos by Charles White.
A Woman’s Right To Pleasure exhibition images.
Photos by Charles White.
BlackBook art gallery partnered with Sotheby’s for A Woman’s Right to Pleasure, an art exhibition and book about the female experience — autonomy, agency, empowerment, love, and sexuality. The exhibit featured 100 international women artists across all mediums and looked at how women see their own experience, focusing on artists and works from the modern and contemporary eras.
Leonor Fini
Les Baignuses, 1972
Georgia O’Keeffe
Canna Series, 1918/20
Judy Chicago
Submerged/Emerged #1, 1976/2005
Tracey Emin
When I think about sex I think about men, women, dos, lions, group sex (and I love you all), 2005
Loie Hollowell
Linked Lingam in Green, Yellow, and Mauve, 2016
Featured Artists:
Georgia O’Keeffe, Louise Bourgeois, Cindy Sherman, Alice Neel, Cecily Brown, Faith Ringgold, Marina Abramović, Jenny Holzer, Tracey Emin, Judy Chicago, Mickalene Thomas, Nan Goldin, Alexandra Rubinstein, Andrea Mary Marshall, Carolee Schneemann, Ellen von Unwerth, Ghada Amer, Joan Semmel, Leonor Fini, Annique Delphine, Carrie Mae Weems, Harley Weir, Judith Bernstein, Amanda Charchian, Arvida Byström, Cass Bird, Danielle Lessnau, Friedl Kubelka, Luo Yang, Andrea Hasler, Betty Tompkins, Elizabeth Ilsley, Jenny Saville, Lena Marquise, Lynda Benglis, Loie Hollowell, Mairi-Luise Tabbakh, Natalia LL, Renee Cox, Signe Pierce, Suzy Kellems Dominic, Maisie Cousins, Marlene Dumas, Natalie Krim, Penny Slinger, Sally Mann, Sonia Sieff, Tamara de Lempicka, Vaginal Davis, Marilyn Minter, Martine Gutierrez, Monica Kim Garza, Reka Nyari, Sandy Kim, Sophia Narrett, Toyin Ojih Odutola, Méret Oppenheim, Angela Heisch, Nina Chanel Abney, Renate Bertlmann, Sarah Lucas, Sophia Wallace, Austyn Weiner, Shara Hughes, Alison Zuckerman, Katherina Olschbaur, Hayv Kahraman, Jessie Makinson, Emily Marie Miller, Mary Beth Edelson.
The book, A Woman’s Right to Pleasure, is a bestselling art book with forewords by Erica Jong (author of bestseller Fear of Flying, recipient of the United Nations Award For Excellence In Literature) and Roxane Gay (author of New York Times best-seller Bad Feminist). Excerpts by Judy Chicago (pioneering feminist artist and Time magazine’s “100 Most Influential People of 2018”) and Kathy Acker. Original submissions by Vaginal Davis, Alice Little, Erika Lust, Naana Otoo-Oyortey, MBE, Nadya Tolokonnikova of Pussy Riot, Natasha Stagg, and Stoya. The book was featured in Italian Vogue, Bazaar, The Guardian, Wallpaper, and Artsy, among others.