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LORETTO, Ky., Feb. 19, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Maker's Mark, the iconic handmade Kentucky bourbon, today announced its support of Vital Voices, a leading nonprofit investing in female leaders taking on the world's greatest challenges, with a limited-edition label designed by renowned artist Gayle Kabaker. In honor of Women's History Month, consumers are invited to order the complimentary Maker's Mark label at makersmarkpersonalize.com and personalize it with the name of an inspirational woman in their lives.

Celebrating Women’s Leadership:Interactive Storytelling Exhibition at United Nations Headquarters

A special art exhibition, "Portraits of Progress: Women Powering the Global Goals," is currently on display in the lobby of the United Nations Headquarters. 

The interactive exhibition uses art and first-person storytelling to celebrate the transformative leadership of women around the globe. Through stunning portraits and inspiring backgrounds, visitors can learn about 16 remarkable women, each advocating for a specific Sustainable Development Goal (SDGs).

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: New York, NY, (July 2023)— Pen + Brush is excited to announce the July 26th opening of Power + Joy, a solo exhibition in our downstairs gallery showcasing the work of Gayle Kabaker, as seen in the book Vital Voices. Here, the artist’s process and womanhood loom large. Works tackle subject matter like placemaking, simplicity for simplicity’s sake, and a woman in dialogue with herself and nature. Kabaker makes space for women to be alone here, owning and showcasing that solitude is a necessary part of her own practice. 

Unabashedly painting women, Kabaker celebrates women at various stages of life and through varying degrees of intimacy. In the works on view, Kabaker combines elements of more traditional painting techniques with printmaking and even digital work sans the conceptual barriers that often accompany such a combination. The resulting body of work is one that not only glorifies women as subject matter but asserts their power in society, as well. Depicting a single woman at peace with herself, or amongst flora and fauna, capturing a domestic scene of joy between a mother and child,  or showing a glimpse of women bathing are some history’s most traditional, iconic, and typecast scenes for “women painters”, so much so that by the mid-twentieth century women artists often avoided such subject matter completely. Kabaker’s willful desire to revisit these scenes in 2023 embodies choice.

On the surface of each work, Kabaker asserts the power and joy of carving out space for the self, turning more canonized views of feminism on their head and re-embracing the gaze of the mother, grandmother, daughter, and most prominently—the woman, sitting with herself. 

This exhibition will pull from across Kabaker’s bodies of work including illustrations, figure and water paintings and drawings and will feature her renowned portraits from the book project Vital Voices:  100 Women Using Their Power to Empower. 

About Pen + Brush:
Pen + Brush is a 129-year-old publicly supported not-for-profit organization fighting for gender equity in the arts. P+B provides a platform to showcase the work of female identifying and non-binary artists and writers to a broader audience with the ultimate goal of effecting real change in the marketplace. We encourage and mentor emerging professionals and aim to expose the stereotypes and misconceptions that perpetuate gender-based exclusion, lack of recognition and the devaluation of skill that is still experienced by women in the arts. 

General Information:

Pen + Brush is open to the public, as well as private groups, Tuesday – Saturday from 12pm to 6pm. We are located on East 22nd Street, between Broadway and Park Avenue South, and our gallery is accessible. 

For general requests contact Parker Daley Garcia, Art Director and Curator, at parker@penandbrush.org or by calling (212)475-3669 ex.2792