*We Wanted a Revolution: Black Radical Women, 1965–85* was the first exhibition to center the voices and experiences of women of color within the feminist art history of that period—distinct from, and largely excluded by, the predominantly white mainstream feminist movement. Painting, sculpture, photography, printmaking, performance, film, and video, by over 40 artists and activists who worked at the intersection of avant-garde art worlds and radical political movements. Faith Ringgold, Betye Saar, Lorna Simpson, Carrie Mae Weems, Howardena Pindell, Lorraine O'Grady, among many others. The galleries moved thematically rather than chronologically, tracing the political and aesthetic priorities of the period without flattening them into a single narrative. Glass vitrines throughout held primary documents—news articles, protest flyers, letters, brochures—situating the work inside the communities where it first circulated.
Year: 2017
Clients: Brooklyn Museum
Category: Exhibition, Identity