Installation view, The Femme Abstract (Courtesy of the artist)
In these clamped-down, stressed-out, resource-stripped days of pandemic, we ve come to scarcely expect art exhibitions at all, much less ones that present wide-ranging surveys showcasing dozens of artists.
And yet, here we are, greeting 2021 with just such a broad, extensive show. Two years after heroically assembling work by 50 women artists into a single exhibition, artist and curator Moya McIntyre has made that monumental effort again. The number of artists in the second edition of The Femme Abstract may be slighly smaller, but the show itself is no less engrossing than the Austin Critics Table Award-winning first. Here are pieces by more than 40 artists spread over two floors in a former office space in the redeveloped warehouse at 979 Springdale, and the varieties of style and medium are so expansive that every wall, every room, every nook and cranny offers a distinctive and fresh experience.