The most comprehensive presentation devoted to the artist in the United States, this exhibition features more than 150 works that include well-known sculpture and prints, rare paintings and drawings, and important ephemera. From drawings made while she was an undergraduate student at Howard University and her early painting practice, to the public monumental sculptural commissions she executed late in her career, Elizabeth Catlett: A Black Revolutionary Artist offers a nuanced understanding of the artist’s transnational commitment to a feminism that prioritized family, civil rights struggles, and class realities.
Catlett’s print and sculptural production is comprehensively explored, with a close examination of her studio practice that reasserts the centrality of printmaking in her art and activism. This exhibition presents Catlett’s vital contributions to 20th-century art, both as an accomplished practitioner and as a politically astute cultural leader in both the United States and Mexico.
