Women Artists and Abstraction

April 21, 2026–May 17, 2026

Jack & Lavon Brosseau Center for Learning

An abstract painting with fields of white and yellow covered in thick, energetic black brushstrokes
Black-and-white print featuring orbs of various sizes grouped in the center

The Brosseau Learning Center features new installations monthly that relate to teaching and research across KU. This installation features works that can be considered in conversation with the exhibition Brush, Block, and Blood: Three Generations of Yoshida Women Printmakers, on view in our Marshall Balcony. The presentation also includes previously unexhibited prints by Helen Frankenthaler.

Black-and-white print featuring orbs of various sizes grouped in the center
Black-and-white print featuring orbs of various sizes grouped in the center
Barbara Waterman-Peters
Sixth Metalscape Series: No. 16, Moons, Mountains, Stars
1981
Abstract painting covered in small brushstrokes and dots in yellow, green, red, and pink
Abstract painting covered in small brushstrokes and dots in yellow, green, red, and pink
Colette Stuebe Bangert
Pink Spring Garlanded Row
1966
Print featuring line drawings of stylized human and animal figures appearing against a black background with brown accents
Print featuring line drawings of stylized human and animal figures appearing against a black background with brown accents
Louise Nevelson
In the Forest (Ancient Sculpture Garden)
1952–1954
A square print with a dark green background divided into three vertical planes by slanted white lines; each plane includes thick black lines and washes of red and yellow
A square print with a dark green background divided into three vertical planes by slanted white lines; each plane includes thick black lines and washes of red and yellow
Susan Springer
Natura non facit Satturn
1966
Horizontal washes of yellow against a white background
Horizontal washes of yellow against a white background
Helen Frankenthaler , Garner Tullis , Helen Frankenthaler , Garner Tullis
Bay Area Sunday I
1982
Abstract print with fine brushstrokes of black and one single one of red hovering above overlapping squares of black and white
Abstract print with fine brushstrokes of black and one single one of red hovering above overlapping squares of black and white
Shinoda Tōkō
Kasanari
1999