Making Their Mark: Works from the Shah Garg Collection
October 27, 2024–April 20, 2025
Making Their Mark brings together more than seventy artworks by women artists from the Shah Garg Collection, illuminating transgenerational affinities, influences, and methodologies among pathbreaking artists from the postwar era to the present.
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Sarah Sze: Crisscross (detail), 2021; Oil, acrylic, acrylic polymer, and ink on composite aluminum panel, with wood support. © Sarah Sze; courtesy the artist and Victoria Miro. Photo by Daniel Spizzirri.
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Emma Amos: Star, 1982; acrylic, machine-made synthetic fabric, and handwoven synthetic fabric on canvas. © 2022 Emma Amos/Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY. Photo by Ian Reeves.
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Installation view, artworks left to right: Miriam Schapiro, Double Rose, 1978; Merikokeb Berhanu, Untitled LXXIII, 2021; Sonia Gomes, Sol Maior, 2023; Sonia Gomes, Artérias (série tela- corpo), 2022; Francoise Grossen, Contact III, 1977; Elizabeth Murray, Joanne in the Canyon, 1990-91.
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Joan Mitchell: Untitled, 1992; oil on canvas. © Estate of Joan Mitchell.
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Installation view, artworks left to right: Amy Sillman, Radiator, 2021; Simone Leigh, Stick, 2019; Charline von Heyl, Dunesday, 2016; Charline von Heyl, Plato's Pharmacy, 2015; Rachel Jones, SMIIILLLLEEEE, 2021.
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Mary Weatherford: Light Falling like a Broken Chain; Paradise, 2021; flashe on linen. © Mary Weatherford; courtesy the artist and David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles. Photo by Fredrik Nilsen Studio; courtesy of David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles.
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Saturday, October 26, 1–7 PMPreview Day: Making Their Mark: Works from the Shah Garg Collection
BAMPFA members enjoy exclusive preview access to Making Their Mark: Works from the Shah Garg Collection on Saturday, October 26, 1–7 PM.
For BAMPFA members and UC Berkeley students, faculty, and staff.
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Sunday, October 27, 11 AM–7 PMFree Community Day: Making Their Mark: Works from the Shah Garg Collection
Celebrate the opening of Making Their Mark: Works from the Shah Garg Collection with free gallery admission to the public on Sunday, October 27, from 11 AM to 7 PM.
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Sunday, October 27, 4:00 PMKomal Shah and Cecilia Alemani with Margot Norton on Making Their Mark
To mark the opening day of Making Their Mark: Works from the Shah Garg Collection, art collector and philanthropist Komal Shah and Cecilia Alemani, Director and Chief Curator of High Line Art in New York, sit down with BAMPFA Chief Curator Margot Norton to discuss their journey organizing the exhibition.
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Selected Wednesdays, 12:15 PM; Sundays, 2:00 PMExhibition Tour: Making Their Mark
UC Berkeley graduate students in the Departments of Gender & Women's Studies, History of Art, and Film & Media Studies offer tours of Making Their Mark: Works from the Shah Garg Collection on selected Wednesdays at 12:15 and Sundays at 2:00, and on Free First Thursdays at 1:15.
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Wednesday, November 13, 12:15 PMCurator’s Tour: Margot Norton on Making Their Mark
Chief Curator Margot Norton, who organized BAMPFA’s presentation of the exhibition, discusses the themes of Making Their Mark and offers insights and observations about selected artworks.
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Thursday, November 14, 6:30 PMGut Punch: Reenvisioning Gestural Abstraction
Two artists whose work is included in Making Their Mark: Works from the Shah Garg Collection—Aria Dean and Mary Weatherford—discuss the ways they approach and reenvision the genre of gestural abstraction.
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