Betty Woodman: Conversations on the Shore, Works from the 1990s
David Kordansky Gallery, New York October 29 - December 17, 2022
Betty Woodman: Conversations on the Shore, Works from the 1990s was a major solo presentation—the first of the artist’s work in New York in six years—that brought together a group of ceramic sculptures from a critical and career-defining period in Woodman’s practice. Anchored by the installation Conversations on the Shore (1994)—which was last shown in the late 1990s as part of a touring solo exhibition which originated at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam—the works on view included a number of wall-mounted and free-standing sculptures, each engaged in a range of conversations about materials, history, function, architecture, sculpture and painting.
Here you'll find a round-up of press about the exhibition; videos documenting Woodman's work in the 1990s including studio and interview footage from the era; and our own "backstories," which share additional archival materials and images which shed light on specific works in the exhibition.
Please also visit David Kordansky Gallery's website to learn more about the exhibition.
Press and Publications
Videos
Videos documenting Woodman's work in the 1990s including studio and interview footage from the era.
Videos documenting Woodman's work in the 1990s including studio and interview footage from the era.
In this video, Chris Kraus, the American critic and writer, talks through Francesca Woodman's artistic process.
In this video, Drew Sawyer, the Brooklyn Museum's Phillip Leonian and Edith Rosenbaum Leonian Curator, discusses Woodman's historical references and artistic affinities among her and her peers.
In this video, Ann Gabhart, Woodman Family Foundation Board member, former Director of the Wellesley College Museum, and curator of Woodman’s first solo museum exhibition at Wellesley and Hunter Colleges in 1986, reflects on her early experiences with and impressions of Woodman’s work.
In this video, Isolde Brielmaier, Deputy Director of the New Museum and the Curator-at-Large at the International Center of Photography (ICP) in New York, shares her thoughts on Woodman’s use of the body and the nude in her highly crafted photographs.
In this video, Kevin Moore, a New York based curator and writer, on Woodman's Victorian aesthetic, identity exploration and the artist's role in her artistic narrative.
In this video, Elisabeth Sussman, the Curator and Sondra Gilman Curator of Photography at the Whitney Museum of American Art, contextualizes Woodman's work within the framework of its era.
In this video, Sabina Mirri, Italian artist and close friend of Woodman, shares her memories and impressions of Woodman as a singular, compelling young woman and artist during her time in Rome.
In this video, Rosalind Krauss, art critic and theorist and Columbia University professor, discusses her initial responses to Woodman’s photographs when co-curating the retrospective exhibition at Hunter and Wellesley Colleges in 1986. She advocates for the formal power and intelligence of Woodman’s work, then and still today.
Videos documenting Woodman's work in the 1990s including studio and interview footage from the era.
Videos documenting Woodman's work in the 1990s including studio and interview footage from the era.
Videos documenting Woodman's work in the 1990s including studio and interview footage from the era.
Videos documenting Woodman's work in the 1990s including studio and interview footage from the era.
Backstories
Additional images and materials from Woodman's archive, including press, which elaborate on works in the Kordansky exhibition as well as other exhibitions from the 1990s.
Additional images and materials from Woodman's archive, including press, which elaborate on works in the Kordansky exhibition as well as other exhibitions from the 1990s.
Additional images and materials from Woodman's archive, including press, which elaborate on works in the Kordansky exhibition as well as other exhibitions from the 1990s.
Additional images and materials from Woodman's archive, including press, which elaborate on works in the Kordansky exhibition as well as other exhibitions from the 1990s.
Additional images and materials from Woodman's archive, including press, which elaborate on works in the Kordansky exhibition as well as other exhibitions from the 1990s.
Additional images and materials from Woodman's archive, including press, which elaborate on works in the Kordansky exhibition as well as other exhibitions from the 1990s.