3 Unique Women United By Abstraction At CCS, Bard
Chadd Scott, Forbes
July 2026
Three women. Three different worlds. Somali-born, Kenyan-raised, self-taught painter Uman (b. 1980). Legendary mid-century New York gallerist Betty Parsons (1900-1982). Early promoter of Mark Rothko and Jackson Pollock. Little-known as an artist in her own right. Fourth generation Diné weaver Marilou Schultz (b. 1954). Born and raised in the Navajo Nation. Connected by art. Abstraction in particular.
The Hessel Museum of Art at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, NY brings them together this summer through three solo exhibitions spotlighting artists pushing the possibilities of abstraction and color. […]