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Can you name five women artists? Since 2016, the National Museum of Women in the Arts has been asking this question on social media each March during Women’s History Month using the hashtag…#5WomenArtists: Ronda Brown
Ronda Brown; <em>Golden Mean Translation Scarab</em>, 2015. Digital print on paper; 39 1/2 x 50 3/4 in.. Collection of the California African American Museum. Gift of the artist
Can you name five women artists?
Since 2016, the National Museum of Women in the Arts has been asking this question on social media each March during Women’s History Month using the hashtag #5WomenArtists. The campaign calls attention to the fact that women have not been treated equally in the art world, and today they remain dramatically underrepresented and undervalued in museums, galleries, and auction houses.
Black women are doubly underrepresented in this context, often absent from in America’s museums and erased from the art world’s consciousness. With an eye towards changing that, CAAM will be sharing images and biographies of five women artists from CAAM’s permanent collection.
Ronda Brown
Ronda Brown
Triangular Golden Mean Web, 2015
Digital print on paper
28 x 39 1/2 in.
Collection of the California African American Museum. Gift of the artist
Ronda Brown
Golden Mean Translation Scarab, 2015
Digital print on paper
39 1/2 x 50 3/4 in.
Collection of the California African American Museum. Gift of the artist
Artist and educator Ronda Brown draws her inspiration from music and spirituality. She defines her style as “Ancient Futurism” and is informed by ancient myth, cosmology, hip-hop, soul, and reggae. Brown works in many mediums, but she often favors digital collages. Triangular Golden Mean Web presents a kaleidoscopic composition with six star-like units set on a constellation-filled background. Golden Mean Translation Scarab also includes six mirrored units that incorporate Egyptian symbols, including eyes and scarab wings. For these two digital collages, Brown worked in collaboration with artist Golden Mean. They used photographs of the Carina Star System as a base layer, which they superimposed with symbols from sacred geometry that are often based in Egyptian, Dogon, and Hopi iconography.
(image: blogbrowntriangulargoldenmeanweb.jpg caption: Ronda Brown. <i>Triangular Golden Mean Web</i>, 2015.
Digital print on paper, 28 x 39 1/2 in. Collection of the California African American Museum. Gift of the artist)
Other 2019 #5WomenArtists selections:
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