Bibliography

Modern Female Masters at Jim Kempner Fine Art

In 1971 feminist art historian Linda Nochlin published the essay “Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?” to call out the art world on the lack of balance keeping female artists from achieving on a par with male peers. Times have changed, and we’re a long way from that boy’s club environment.

Reflections and Clearly Human

Shanlin Ye’s Reflections, a series of watercolors on paper, show faces and cropped bodies as if they are puddles of gestural expressiveness surrounded by a void. This is accentuated by leaving a reserve of blank paper….

Here Lie Lilacs

Shanlin Ye too surrenders control to her medium, but also determines central facial features with the utmost precision. Displaying select pieces from her Mask series illustrates human features as crucial to physical and emotional identity, for only the lower face is allowed full rendering while the eyes are either closed or missing, which arguably is the most telling feature of one’s identity.