Howardena pindell autobiography air force

As a young, black woman artist living in New York in the late 1960s, Howardena Pindell faced significant obstacles preventing her from attaining critical recognition for her work.

Though she followed a professional trajectory--graduating from the Yale School of Art and going on to work as an exhibition assistant and then assistant curator at the Museum of Modern Art--Pindell was refused gallery representation and denied exhibitions for her work due to gender and racial biases that proliferated in the New York art world at the time (and which continue, often in less outwardly violent ways, today).

This did not prevent her from making work, however, and in 1972 she co-founded A.I.R.

Autobiography: Air/CS, , is a moving example of the power of Pindell's commitment to social protest.

Autobiography: Air/CS, , is a moving example of the power of Pindell's commitment to social protest.

One of my first text pieces was Autobiography: Air/CS (), which refers to a gas that was used during the Vietnam War. It would cause.

A selection of paintings and works on paper from the artist's Autobiography series will be on view, all created between and

Howardena Pindell (born April 14, ) is an American artist, curator, critic, and educator.

In her Autobiography series, she explores her experiences of solace as well as trauma.

with other women artists who were also frustrated with the systemic misogyny that inhibited them from achieving successful artistic careers. Pindell was the one to name the gallery A.I.R. after the “Artist in Residence” signs posted outside SoHo studios to indicate that the building was occupied. 

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