We join the day of feminist vindication by providing some data on the current situation of women artists.
Right now, in PLOM Gallery’s online shop there are works of art of about fifty artists. Thirty of them are women. That’s 60%.
The percentage is not significant, as these 30 artists have been selected for their talent, not for being women.
Anyway, the figure gives an idea of how things are in the art world related to illustration and graphic design, which is where most PLOM artists tend to move professionally.
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Successful illustrators
In the faculties and art schools there are more women than men studying and training. When these women enter the working world, they find themselves in two totally opposite universes.
On the one hand, among graphic designers and press and book illustrators, women are valued equally with men.
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There are the success stories of Ingela P Arrehnius, Anna Kovecses, Rachel Ignotofsky, Anna Llenas, Jessica Love, Nadia Shireen, Lara Hawthorne, Jane Foster, or, among the PLOM artists, Vanessa Linares y Amaia Arrazola.
The first division of Art
On the other hand, in the territory of official contemporary art, that of international fairs and millionaire auctions, the truth is that women artists are conspicuous by their absence.
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The stars of the guild continue to be Jeff Koons, Damien Hirst or the Spaniard Miquel Barceló.
Among the 100 most sought-after artists in the contemporary art market, only a dozen women’s names appear.
Almost all of them have already passed away, such as Georgia O’Keeffe, Louise Bourgeois, Joan Mitchell, Agnes Martin or Ana Mendieta .
The only living female artist who is part of the group of the consecrated is the Japanese artist Yakoi Kusama, who is about to turn 90.
There is no shortage of talented women artists. So I’m sure the problem lies elsewhere.
