New Approaches to Fanny Sanín: Women Artists and Geometric Abstraction

This panel conversation accompanied Fanny Sanín’s New York: The Critical Decade, 1971–1981, an exhibition curated by Edward Chang, Megan Kincaid, and Anastassia Perfilieva as part of the Duke House Exhibition Series. The panel coincided with a raft of scholarship on the developments and styles engineered by women artists working in this idiom, contextualizing Sanín’s work within current discourse. Moreover, this discussion sought to reexamine the modernist association of geometric abstraction with “purity” through the critical lenses of gender, race, and nationality.