Action, Gesture, Paint:
​Women Artists and Global Abstraction 1940–70
February 9 - May 7, 2023
​Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK
https://www.whitechapelgallery.org/exhibitions/action-gesture-paint-women-and-global-abstraction-1940-70/

Whitechapel Gallery presents a major exhibition of 150 paintings from an overlooked generation of 81 international women artists.
Reaching beyond the predominantly white, male painters whose names are synonymous with the Abstract Expressionist movement, this exhibition celebrates the practices of the numerous international women artists working with gestural abstraction in the aftermath of the Second World War

Mary Abbott, Etel Adnan, Maliheh Afnan, Ruth Armer, Gillian Ayres, Ida Barbarigo, Noemí Di Benedetto, Anna-Eva Bergman, Janice Biala, Bernice Bing, Sandra Blow, Dusti Bongé, Chinyee, Wook-kyung Choi, Jay DeFeo, Martha Edelheit, Amaranth Ehrenhalt, Asma Fayoumi, Lilly Fenichel, Perle Fine, Else Fischer-Hansen, Audrey Flack, Elna Fonnesbech-Sandberg, Juana Francés, Helen Frankenthaler, Sonia Gechtoff, Judith Godwin, Gloria Gómez-Sánchez, Elsa Gramcko, Sarah Grilo, Grace Hartigan, Lilian Holt, Buffie Johnson, Yuki Katsura, Helen Khal, Elaine de Kooning, Lee Krasner, Bice Lazzari, Lifang, Bertina Lopes, Margaret Mellis, Marta Minujín, Joan Mitchell, Aiko Miyawaki, Yolanda Mohalyi, Nasreen Mohamedi, Emiko Nakano, Lea Nikel, Tomie Ohtake, Fayga Ostrower, Mercedes Pardo, Charlotte Park, Betty Parsons, Pat Passlof, Alice Rahon, Carol Rama, Marie Raymond, Judit Reigl, Deborah Remington, Britta Ringvall, Erna Rosenstein, Behjat Sadr, Nadia Saikali, Zilia Sánchez, Fanny Sanín, Miriam Schapiro, Sarah Schumann, Ethel Schwabacher, Sonja Sekula, Toko Shinoda, Sylvia Snowden, Janet Sobel, Vivian Springford, Franciszka Themerson, Alma Thomas, Yvonne Thomas, Hedwig Thun, Nína Tryggvadóttir, Elsa Vaudrey, Maria Helena Vieira da Silva, Michael West

Our Own Work, Our Own Way:
​Ascendant Women Artists in the Johnson Collection
January 21 - May, 21, 2023
Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, SC
Our Own Work, Our Own Way: Ascendant Women Artists in the Johnson Collection at CMA (mutualart.com)

The Columbia Museum of Art offers the exhibition Our Own Work, Our Own Way: Ascendant Women Artists in the Johnson Collection. Presented by the Johnson Collection, Spartanburg, South Carolina, the exhibition brings together 42 female artists of the 20th century who had connections to the South — including Emma Amos, Beverly Buchanan, Elaine de Kooning, Zelda Fitzgerald, Gwendolyn Knight, and Laura Spong — while shining a spotlight on several other regional artists. 
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Anni Albers, Emma Amos, McDonald Bane, Nell Blaine, Dusti Bongé, Beverly Buchanan, Selma Burke, Margaret Burroughs, Mary Callery, Josephine Couper, Elaine de Kooning, Jeanet Dreskin, Jeanet Dreskin-Haig, Caroline Durieux, Zelda Fitzgerald, Maud Gatewood, Judith Godwin, Anne Goldthwaite, Lee Hall, Fannie Hillsmith, Marie Hull, Valerie Jaudon, Elizabeth Jennerjahn, Loïs Mailou Jones, Karen Karnes, Gina Knee, Gwendolyn Knight, Dorothy Kohlhepp, Adele Lemm, Edith London, Corrie McCallum, Augusta Oelschig, Pat Passlof, Mavis Pusey, Jo Sandman, Gladys Smith, Laura Spong, Anna Heyward Taylor, Grace Taylor, Alma Thomas, Mary Thomas,  Susan Weil

Dusti Bongé, Lyle Bongé, Paul Bongé, Joey Rice
January 28 - May 31, 2023
​Dusti Bonge Art Foundation

Celebrating the spirit of collaboration, experimentation and inspiration among artists, we are happy to announce our next show, 
Dusti Bongé, Lyle Bongé, Paul Bongé, Joey Rice
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The show will feature works created by each artist and some of their collaborations as well. It will showcase how each artist pursued abstraction in photographs, paintings, works on paper, and mixed media sculptures.

​Photo gallery with highlights of the exhibition

Kinship: Dusti Bongé and Betty Parsons
​October 13 - November 12, 2022
Hollis Taggart, New York, NY

 Hollis Taggart presents the expansive exhibition “Kinship: Dusti Bongé and Betty Parsons” located on the first and second floor gallery space at 521 West 26th Street. 

“Kinship: Dusti Bongé and Betty Parsons” includes 35 works by Bongé, reintroducing audiences to the full arc of her career, and also features 15 works by Parsons,  The exhibition captures the significance of network and relationship- building among women within the art ecosystem at midcentury, with Parsons leveraging her own success as a gallerist to bring forward Bongé’s innovative vision and work. This is the first major showing of Bongé’s work since Hollis Taggart began representing the estate in 2021.

Photo gallery with highlights of the exhibition
​All Photos courtesy Hollis Taggart​

PRESS:

11.8.22 Artnet News
Spotlight: Dusti Bongé and Betty Parsons’s Artist-Gallerist Relationship Forms the Heart of a New Exhibition at Hollis Taggart
11.4.22 Artsy
Why Secondary Market Galleries Appeal to New and Established Collectors Alike
10.24.22 Antiques Trade Gazette 
News in Brief: Southern US artists show
10.10.22 Forbes
New York’s Top October Art Exhbitions Have A Southern Flavor​
10.5.22 Garden & Gun
Mississippi’s Modernist Painter Who Thought New York Had Nothing on Biloxi

Dallas Art Fair
​Hollis Taggart Booth G15
April 21 - April 24, 2022

Hollis Taggart 2022 Dallas Art Fair booth featured a selection of premier  Post-war and contemporary artists, including Dusti Bongé.

View of Booth G15. Photo courtesy Hollis Taggart​

Women and the Void: Abstract Expressionism on Paper
​February 16 - March 9, 2022
​Huxley-Parlour , London, UK

Women and the Void: Abstract Expressionism on Paper displays 20 works on paper by women working in abstraction between 1945 - 1970: Mary Abbott, Dusti Bongé, Jay DeFeo, Perle Fine, Anne Ryan, Alma Thomas, and Michael West.
Huxley-Parlour Gallery, founded in London in 2010, is a modern and contemporary art gallery  committed to creating a dialogue between those artists who have made an impact on recent art history, and those who are at its vanguard today.

https://huxleyparlour.com/exhibitions/women-and-the-void-abstract-expressionism-on-paper/

Dusti Bongé: Southern Exposure
​November 11, 2021 - January 8, 2022
McCormick Gallery, Chicago, IL

The McCormick Gallery presents the first solo gallery exhibition in 45 years, outside of the Southern United States, of the art of Dusti Bongé (1903-1993).  Located in Chicago’s West Loop,  the gallery  offers mid-century as well as contemporary paintings, and is known for presenting (often overlooked) post-war Abstract Expressionists.

​The McCormick Press has published a lovely, 44 page, fully illustrated catalog with an essay on her life and work to accompany this exhibition.

To view all works in Southern Exposure, please visit:
https://www.thomasmccormick.com/artists/dusti_bong_

Dusti Bongé: Joss Paper
September 24, 2021 - February 20, 2022
Ohr-O’Keefe Museum of Art,  Biloxi, MS

The Armory Show 2021
​Hollis Taggart Booth 331
September 9 - September 12, 2021

Hollis Taggart 2021 Armory Show booth featured a selection of premier Abstract Expressionist and Post-war artworks with an emphasis on the contribution of women artists, including Dusti Bongé.

View of Booth 331. Photo courtesy Hollis Taggart​

The Art of Joey Rice
February 27, 2021 - July 24, 2021
Dusti Bongé Art Foundation

Exhibition curated by Bill Myers & Carol Leake.

​Piercing the Inner Wall: ​The Art of Dusti Bongé
​February 26, 2021 - July 11,  2021
Mississippi Museum of Art

 ​Mississippi Museum of Art 
​This retrospective exhibition debuted at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art in New Orleans in 2019,

https://www.msmuseumart.org/exhibition/piercing-the-inner-wall-the-work-of-dusti-bonge/.
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Photo gallery with highlights of the exhibition

Piercing the Inner Wall: ​The Art of Dusti Bongé
April 11, 2019 - September 8, 2019
​Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, LA

Exhibition curated by Bradley Sumrall
https://ogdenmuseum.org/exhibition/piercing-the-inner-wall-the-art-of-dusti-bonge/
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​Photo gallery with highlights of the exhibition