In 2012 the cities of Los Angeles, Quebec and Mexico City joined forces to create a stunning retrospective about "The Women of Surrealism". This show would travel to all three cities over the course of 2 years. The curators of this travelling show knew that these women have been overlooked, undervalued and even disdained by the established "Art World." So they set out to rectify this glaring oversight by creating one of the most comprehensive and educational exhibits focussing solely on the women of Surrealism. Our course in deeply indebted to the foresight of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Museo de Arte Moderno in Mexico City and the Musee National des Beaux-Arts in Quebec.
My goal for this SDG is to illuminate the passion, vision and intensity of these women who created art that explored their own dreams, their own personal fears and their own prophecies. Surrealism for these women was their chosen path to explore self-knowledge and identity. Some of these artists are well-known in America, while some are cultural icons in their country of birth. We will travel through North America and Europe; meeting such artists as Remedios Varo, Dorothea Tanning, Lee Miller,Toyen and Leonora Carrington. Our studies will cover the painters, photographers, and mixed-media artists who showed us their visions "In Wonderland".
