AUCART: WOMEN ARTISTS TO WATCH

DECEMBER 2020

AucArt welcomes GLOBART Advisory co-founders Zeynep Utku and Deniz Caglar to curate this month’s sale ‘Women Artists to Watch’, showcasing works from 9 female artists without discrimination toward race, age, class, sexual, spiritual, or political orientation. Women have continued the struggle for recognition in modern and contemporary art spheres, to such an extent that feminist collective Guerilla Girls asked in 1989, “Do women have to be naked to get into the Met? ‘Women Artists to Watch’ will pay homage to Alex Strada’s ‘Artist Contract’, which is an artwork sales agreement that requires any collector to reinvest all accrued value in new artwork by an emerging female-identifying artist. The contract also serves as a piece of conceptual art itself. Attaching it to this selection makes an artistic statement as the legal document becomes inseparable from the artwork. 

Among the artists featured in December’s sale are Aamina Hoosain, Anke Loots, Edith Karlson, Fatima Tayob Moosa, Gabrielle Kruger, Isabella Chydenius, Kim Jackson, Liu Xi, and Nina Saunders, themes surrounding questions of identity, gender, class, race, sex, birth, and regeneration are continually addressed.