Schroeder Romero & Shredder is pleased to announce two new exhibitions. On view in the Schroeder Romero space is Vivid: Female Currents in Painting, curated by Janet Phelps, while Shredder presents Pavers.

Vivid will feature over two dozen new works by the painters Laylah Ali, Elizabeth Bonaventura, Rosanna Bruno, Rebecca Chamberlain, Andrea Champlin, Jennifer Coates, Angela Dufresne, Jackie Gendel, Karen Heagle, Laurie Hogin, Vera Iliatova, Mala Iqbal, Harriet Korman, Judith Linhares, Medrie MacPhee, Carrie Moyer, Dona Nelson, iona rozeal brown, Sigrid Sandström, Mira Schor, Barbara Takenaga, Nicola Tyson, and Wendy White. Vivid celebrates painting’s multivalent possibilities and the diverse styles of these artists with works that address a variety of themes and narratives and that range from the nearly sculptural to the purely abstract. Creating out of a “post-everything” sensibility, a dialogue with art history and the exploration of contemporary ideas are what unite the artists and their works. Vivid: Female Currents in Painting, pays tribute to painting for painting’s sake.

Janet Phelps is an independent curator who has worked nationally and internationally for the past 15 years. She is a graduate from the NYU Arts Administration program and has curated projects in New York, El Salvador, Mexico City, Miami and cities across the US. She sits on the boards of Momenta Art and Visual AIDS and currently lives in Houston.

Of course, for every contemporary artist there is an art historical precedence—that influential artist who paved the way. The Shredder exhibition Pavers will feature influential women artists who broke ground in a world dominated by men, including Nell Blaine, Shirley Jaffe, Valerie Jaudon, Lee Krasner, Molly Luce, Louisa Matthíasdóttir, Loren MacIver, Melissa Meyer, Joan Mitchell, Dorothy Morang, Hilla Rebay, and Virginia True. As in Vivid, these artists worked in a range of styles from the abstract, such as Mitchell and Krasner, to the figurative and realist, like Matthíasdóttir. Also on view are pioneering women artists often omitted from the history textbooks, such as MacIver, the only woman in Pierre Matisse’s gallery, and Luce, known as “the American Breughel,” whose work was collected by the Whitney as early as 1924.