This nine-book set of artists’ books is the culmination of efforts made by artists Sabra Moore and Josely Carvalho to foster collaborative relationships between female artists from North and South America and to address subjects common to women of all cultures: birth, food, body, shelter, environment, race, spirit, and war/death. The work of 150 international women artists (including Nancy Spero, Ida Applebroog, Louise Bourgeois, Joan Lyons, and Faith Ringgold) appears in these photocopied pages, bound within silkscreened Indian paper and presented in a ribbon-bound slipcase.

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Connections Project/ Conexus was a collaborative exhibition organized by Sabra Moore and Josely Carvalho. The exhibition brought together sixteen pairs of women artists from North and South America. These thirty two artists produced large-scale artworks responding to themes including birth, body, shelter, race, food, environment, spirit, and war/death. As part of the exhibition, the thirty two participant artists each proposed up to an additional five artists to produce pages for an artists' book, 150 Artists Book.

The exhibition was shown in the United States at the Museum of Contemporary Hispanic Art (MoCHA) in New York City (January, 1987), and the Southeastern Massachusetts Art Gallery in Dartmouth (1988). It then traveled to Brasil, where it was exhibited at the Museo de Arte Contemporãnea da Universidaded de São Paulo (1989). The accompanying 150 Artists Book, produced in an edition of 600 copies, was exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art's (MoMA) Committed to Print show (1988).

Core pairs of artists working and showing in the exhibition included: Josely Carvalho and Bette Kalache; Liliana Porter and Karin Lambrecht; Faith Ringgold and Luise Weiss; Kathie Brown and Denise Milan; Nancy Spero with Valerie Savilli and Christina Parisi; Kazuko and Ile de Freitas; Sabra Moore and Maria do Carmo Secco; Mimi Smith and Lucia Py; Howardena Pindell and Lygia Pape; Vivian Browne and Alice Brill; Marina Gutierrez and Maria Lidia Magliani; Jaune Quick-To-See Smith and Sopia Tassinari; May Stevens and Vera Café; Mary Beth Edelson and Simone Michelin; Ida Applebroog and Ely Bueno; Catalina Parra and Anesia Pacheco e Chaves.

 

 

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Exhibitions

1989. Connections Project/Conexus, MAC-SP Museu de Arte Contemporânea, São Paulo, SP.

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1987. Connections Project/Conexus, Museum of Contemporary Hispanic Art - MoCHA, New York, (08/01 to 08/02/1987); Southeastern Massachusetts University Art Gallery, USA. Curators: Josely Carvalho & Sabra Moore. 

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Libraries and Collections

 Barnard Archives and Special Collections, Barnard Library. To use this collection, please contact the Barnard Archives and Special Collections at 212.854.4079 or archives@barnard.edu.

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