Exhibition
A Woman’s Right To Pleasure
SOTHEBY’S LOS ANGELES
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.
Our first initiative in our ART+IMPACT series, A Woman’s Right to Pleasure examines the female experience: autonomy, agency, equality, and empowerment.
A live and digital exhibition in partnership with Sotheby’s featuring:
Georgia O’ Keeffe, Tracey Emin, Jenny Holzer, Louise Bourgeois, Leonor Fini, Judy Chicago, Marilyn Minter, Loie Hollowell, Allison Zuckerman, Angela Heisch, Jessie Makinson, Austyn Weiner, Mary Beth Edelson, Hayv Karahman, Katherina Olschbauer, Penny Slinger, Judith Bernstein, Alexandra Rubinstein, Reka Nyari, Natalie Krim, Cecily Brown, Emily Marie Miller, Shara Hughes, Nan Goldin and more.
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
Best-Selling Art Book
Published in collaboration with Sotheby’s, featuring over 75 of the most important women artists of the last century.
Featured Artists + Writers
Nina Chanel Abney, Marina Abramović, Ghada Amer, Judith Bernstein, Renate Bertlmann, Cass Bird, Louise Bourgeois, Cecily Brown, Arvida Byström, Amanda Charchian, Judy Chicago, Maisie Cousins, Renee Cox, Vaginal Davis, Tamara De Lempicka, Annique Dephine, Suzy Kellems Dominik, Marlene Dumas, Tracey Emin, Leonor Fini, Monica Kim Garza, Nan Goldin, Martine Gutierrez, Andrea Hasler, Jenny Holzer, Elizabeth Ilsley, Natalie Krim, Friedl Kubelka, Dani Lessnau, Natalia LL, Sarah Lucas, Sally Mann, Lena Marquise, Andrea Mary Marshall, Marilyn Minter, Sophia Narrett, Alice Neel, Reka Nyari, Georgia O’Keeffe, Toyin Ojih Odutola, Meret Oppenheim, Signe Pierce, Alexandra Rubinstein, Faith Ringgold, Jenny Saville, Carolee Schneemann, Tschabalala Self, Joan Semmel, Cindy Sherman, Sonia Sieff, Penny Slinger, Mairi-Luise Tabbakh, Mickalene Thomas, Betty Tompkins, Ellen Von Unwerth, Sophia Wallace, Carrie Mae Weems, Harley Weir and Luo Yang, with an exclusive coloring book by RIP Bambi.
Forewords by Erica Jong and Roxane Gay. Excerpts by Judy Chicago and Kathy Acker. Original submissions by Vaginal Davis, Alice Little, Erika Lust, Naana Otoo-Oyortey, Pussy Riot’s Nadya Tolokonnikova, Natasha Stagg and Stoya. Quotes by Simone de Beauvoir, Eve Ensler, Betty Friedan, Audre Lorde, Anaïs Nin and Naomi Wolf.
“A woman’s right to pleasure has the potential to expand audience’s understanding of what female desire, pleasure, and beauty could look like for themselves and the women in their lives.”
—Artsy
“It is brilliant and lewd and sexy and long overdue.”
—Art Plugged
“A woman’s right to pleasure is an explosive and titillating coffee table book packed with stimulating illustration, collage, photography, and essays — created by diverse voices.”
—The Face
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