Action Gesture Paint: Women Artists and Global Abstraction artist-Huma-Bhabha First published 2018

First published 2018

To Be Someone

delicately pinned onto backdrops of foam and spunge materials

foregrounding work by Black artists

Action Gesture Paint: Women Artists and Global Abstraction artist-Huma-Bhabha First published 2018At a time when the world was processing the anxieties of the Second World War and navigating a backdrop of deeply conflicted political climates, artists began to express their concerns in a new form of art that embraced personal and political freedom. Ironically, the reach of this 'freedom' has been limited to the white, male, and Western perspective. The overlooked narrative of gestural abstraction is kaleidoscopic, broad in its geographical breadth,