Why aren there more womens paintings in museums?
That’s one of the big questions, and I have to tell you that this is not always an issue of gender. A lot of women in positions of power have been as misogynous and as anti-female as men, maybe more so. For those of us who are interested in seeing a more equitable society, the issue isn’t whether the person is a man or a woman, the issue is what kind of program they are putting forward. Can art be neither male or female? What I’m asking is, do men and women have to view art on the basis of gender? Ah, well, do I wish that we lived in a world where gender didn’t figure so prominently? Of course. Do I even think about myself as a woman when I go to make art? Of course not. I go to make art as who I am as a person. The fact that I am a woman comes into play maybe in the kinds of things I’m interested in or in the way I structure a canvas. You don’t think that men and women view things differently? Is a man going to paint a different kind of painting than a woman? Are paintings by men goin
