Pearl Blauvelt and Janet Sobel were both self-taught artists born in the year 1893, but they couldn’t have had more different lives. Both are on display at Andrew Edlin gallery, and both have something different to say about the nature of “outsider art.”

Erin O’Keefe is a photographer of an interesting breed: she uses her tools to challenge our understanding of reality––even to trick us––rather than to expose it.

Berlin-based Berta Fischer makes sculptures out of sheets of iridescent acrylic glass, contorting them in order to capture and refract light in ways that seem out of this world.

Nathlie Provosty has mastered a notoriously independent medium: watercolor. Showing a remarkable ability to control its properties, she creates pieces that feel at once liquid and solid.

Carla Prina was an Italian abstractionist with her own perspective. Little known outside her native Italy and adoptive Switzerland, Shin Gallery revisits a woman deserving of much more recognition.

Though her flower paintings appear to be of the 21st century, Shara Hughes takes a cue from the Golden Age of Dutch painting, more specifically, the tradition of vanitas.

What’s the state of the still life in a contemporary art world dominated by mixed media and large scale? Susan Jane Walp shows us that a genre that’s existed for millennia is still going strong.

For the inaugural Lower East Side art week 23 galleries present the work of female artists, all the while asking us to reassess the venues in which we view art.

Liz Collins, known for her immersive textile-based environments, has a solo show at LMAK Gallery

Join less than half on a ramble through the Lower East Side gallery scene, on the lookout for female artists.