27/06/17
31 Women
Breese Little
2 June – 31 July 2017
Taking as its starting point Peggy Guggenheim’s 1943 New
York exhibition of the same name, 31 Women offers what is says on the tin – and
much more. Josephine Breese and Henry Little transport Guggenheim’s two
thematic threads – the first focusing on the surreal, the instinctual and the
erotic; the second a formalist enquiry into modes of mark-making and production
– across the Atlantic and across time, securing key works by Eileen Agar and
Catherine Yarrow, two artists from the original curation, and inviting a
further new 28 artists to join the conversation.
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