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Collection Highlights
Look for these contemporary works on campus created by foremost women artists.
Professor of Art Anne Beidler places a spotlight on selected works from the college’s permanent collection, observing, “Each of these pieces question space and ideas about what is art and what is beauty. They ask you to question the very history of our nation. They also reflect the transformation of the college into this diverse, forward-thinking place for young women leaders to grow.”
• Barbara Kruger, “Untitled (Everything will be okay/ Everything will work out/Everything is fine),” 2000, photographic silkscreen on vinyl. Location: Ground floor of Alston Campus Center
“Known for including assertive text that challenges viewers, Kruger is an important contemporary artist. This piece asks us to interpret it through the lens of our own experiences. The affirmation can be perceived as either patronizing or comforting, and some of the plants rest safely on the shelves while others are teetering, which also conveys a conflicting message.”
Barbara Kruger, “Untitled (Everything will be okay/ Everything will work out/Everything is fine),” 2000, on the ground level of Alston Campus Center.
Photo by Tom Meyer
• Kara Walker, “Resurrection With Patrons,” 2017, etching. Location: McCain Library (Installation location inside the library is being determined)
“This is a large, powerful piece by an enormously important contemporary artist who grew up in Atlanta. Walker’s images work to bridge unfinished folklore in the Antebellum South, raising identity and gender issues for African-American women in particular.”
• Yehimi Cambrón ’14, “Somos,” 2018, a wall of text/image portraits printed on fabric. Location: Second floor of Alston Campus Center, Gué Pardue Hudson Center for Leadership and Service
“As a bold declaration reflecting the themes of solidarity, inclusivity and identity, this work’s title is the Spanish word meaning ‘we are,’ and it features personal stories of Agnes Scott students and alumnae. Cambrón is a passionate and committed artist-activist, and her award-winning murals are found throughout the Atlanta area and beyond.”
Yehimi Cambrón ’14, “Somos,” 2018, on the wall of the Gué Pardue Hudson Center for Leadership and Service in Alston Campus Center
Photo by Tom Meyer
• Sally Mann, “Untitled,” 1996, gelatin silver enlargement print, toned with tea. Location: First floor of McCain Library
“Many of Mann’s large black-and-white and hand-manipulated prints from this series exploring the Southern landscape were taken using the 19th-century wet plate collodion process in which glass plates are coated with collodion, dipped in silver nitrate and exposed while still wet. This gave the photographs what the New York Times called ‘a swirling, ethereal image with a center of preternatural clarity.’”
• Pam Longobardi, “Flag of Lesvos (anamnesis),” 2017, recovered life vests from Lesvos, Greece. Location: Ground Floor of McCain Library
“Longobardi is a Georgia State University professor and an ecoartist. This work brings attention to the Lesvos refugee crisis and ocean plastic pollution. The piece is part of the larger collaboration of a social enterprise between Drifters Project and Lesvos Solidarity, and funds from its sale were donated to the refugee effort on Lesvos.”
• Jordan Casteel ’11, “mother,” 2011, oil on canvas. Location: First floor of Buttrick Hall, Office of the Vice President for Academic Affairs
“This portrait of Casteel’s mother represents the beginning of a style of painting and a body of work that would lead her to the MFA program at Yale and later to a residency at the Studio Museum in Harlem. Through her intimate and genuine paintings of family, friends and neighbors, she is recognized as one of the foremost figural painters of her generation.”
Jordan Casteel ’11, “mother,” 2011, is located in the Office of the Vice President for Academic Affairs on Buttrick Hall's first floor.
Photo by Tom Meyer
