The Brodsky Center is honored to present Spotlight on Nell Painter, an online exhibition highlighting all the prints made by Nell Painter to date at the Brodsky Center at PAFA, Philadelphia.
Artist Nell Painter is supported by her transformative contribution as a leading historian of African American studies to the understanding of American history and the social constructions brought about by institutional frames of gender and race. Painter shares her creative subjective, emotive, poetic, imaginative, and political perspective in a rich body of paintings and prints collected by museums nationally and internationally.
The Brodsky Center at PAFA empowers artists to explore, experiment, and extend boundaries by creating new work in collaboration with collaborative printers and papermakers. Since its found in 1986 by Judith K. Brodsky, it has purposely an proudly engaged artists of color and women artists was well as other underrepresented communities. With a commitment to Philadelphia’s verse neighborhoods, the Brodsky Center advances PAFA’s reach locally and internationally by educating students, promoting the singular work and innovative ideas of influential artists, and inviting all audiences to appreciate the relevance of paper and print in contemporary arts and culture.
To learn more about works available for sale, please contact Grace Harmer at gharmer@pafa.org.