She Said, She Said: Contemporary Artists from the Rubell Museum opens in the Traditional Gallery at the new Arlington Museum of Art, featuring works drawn from one of the country’s preeminent private contemporary art collections
ARLINGTON, TX (May 29, 2024) – Today the Arlington Museum of Art (AMA) announced the continuation of its ongoing collaboration with the Rubell Museum through the presentation of a new exhibition of work by women artists curated from the Rubell Museum’s expansive contemporary art collection.
She Said, She Said: Contemporary Artists from the Rubell Museum premieres on August 17, 2024, as part of the AMA’s opening year in its new location within the Arlington Entertainment District.
Curated by the Rubell Museum’s Alexandra Perez, She Said, She Said features over 50 works spanning painting, photography, sculpture, video, and installation by more than 30 artists of different generations, cultures, and disciplines. Presented thematically as well as with several galleries dedicated to solo presentations, She Said, She Said examines topics including representations of the body, appropriation and subversion, self-portraiture, and gestural abstraction.
Highlighting the significant contributions to the canon that women artists continue to make, the exhibition also offers focused explorations of work by contemporary practitioners such as Solange Pessoa, Beverly Semmes, Cajsa von Zeipel, and Allison Zuckerman. She Said, She Said will remain on view in the AMA’s new Traditional Gallery through November 3, 2024.
“Through our continued collaboration with the Arlington Museum of Art, we are able to bring our collection to new and broader audiences, reflecting our mission to showcase and encourage public dialogue about work by a wide range of contemporary artists,” said Mera Rubell. “Advancing our commitment to supporting and championing artists, She Said, She Said showcases diverse perspectives and illustrates the important contributions of women artists working today.”
Timed-entry tickets for She Said, She Said will be available to the public starting July 5. AMA members will be able to reserve their free tickets starting June 21. Tickets will be available exclusively at arlingtonmuseum.org.
“The Arlington Museum of Art is special in many ways,” said Chris Hightower, AMA president and CEO. “While we have the capacity and expertise of a major art museum, we think as much like producers of a Broadway show as we do curators and art historians. Our hometown is one of the five most diverse cities in the country, which informs our commitment to presenting a wide variety of traditional, immersive, and emerging art forms that represent the interests and complexities of our community. We collaborate with incredible partners like the Rubell Museum to create a program of rotating exhibitions that come to us from all over the world. When we say, ‘Come see what’s new at the AMA,’ we really mean it.”
She Said, She Said represents the third collaboration between the Arlington Museum of Art and the Rubell Museum. In 2019, the AMA presented Keith Haring: Against All Odds, a retrospective spotlighting works ranging from the artist’s best-known imagery to more personal pieces, timed to the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots. In 2021, the same year that Juneteenth became a federal holiday, the AMA presented 30 Americans, a powerful showcase of works by 30 emerging and established African American artists that examines issues of racial, sexual, and historical identity in contemporary culture and the powerful influence of artistic legacy and community across generations.
“Our long-standing partnership with the Rubell Museum has been an incredible opportunity to bring the very best contemporary art to Texas,” said Kendall Quirk, AMA director of exhibitions. “More importantly, we activate our community around these exhibitions with programming and partnerships that inspire conversation and critical thinking.”
More information about press preview opportunities will be announced this summer.
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About the Arlington Museum of Art
A thriving visual arts museum in the heart of North Texas, the Arlington Museum of Art (AMA) is constantly in motion, with ever-changing exhibits and experiences that unite art, technology, innovation, and education. In keeping with our growing reputation for groundbreaking exhibitions and programming, coupled with our hometown pride, in 2024 the new AMA opened in the heart of Arlington’s Entertainment District.
The AMA serves our community and visitors as a new kind of arts destination, presenting the world’s great masters alongside the very best of contemporary art and evolving genres of experiential art. Our unwavering commitment to fostering creativity, conversation, and connection brings together diverse art, artists, and audiences of all ages, transforming them through the power of art. arlingtonmuseum.org
About the Rubell Museum
Shortly after Mera and Don Rubell married in 1964, they started visiting artists’ studios and collecting art in New York. Their son, Jason Rubell, joined them in 1982 in building the collection, creating exhibitions, and developing their museums, thus reflecting the multi-generational family passion for discovering, engaging, and supporting many of today’s most compelling artists.
The Rubell Museum’s collection of over 7,700 contemporary artworks is distinguished by its unprecedented range and depth that has enabled the Museum to organize over 50 exhibitions during the last three decades drawn entirely from its holdings in painting, sculpture, photography, video, and installation. Many of these exhibitions have been toured to museums internationally and have been accompanied by catalogues.
The Rubell Museum opened in Miami’s Allapattah neighborhood in December 2019. Originally launched in 1993 as the Rubell Family Collection, the institution was renamed the Rubell Museum to emphasize its public mission and expand access for audiences. In October 2022, the Rubell Family opened a second museum dedicated exclusively to contemporary art in the reinvigorated 1906 building of the former Randall Junior High School, a historically Black public school in Washington, DC’s Southwest neighborhood, whose alumni include Marvin Gaye. The Rubell Museums serve as places for the public to engage with the most compelling national and international artists of our time. rubellmuseum.org
Media Contacts
For the Arlington Museum of Art
Chris Hightower, President & CEO
Arlington Museum of Art
president@arlingtonmuseum.org
817-275-4600
For the Rubell Museum
Sarah McNaughton
Resnicow and Associates
rubell@resnicow.com
212-671-5161
