In the 1920s and '30s, Maria Martins, Marina Núñez del Prado, and Alicia Penalba left their respective home countries of Brazil, Bolivia, and Argentina, embarking on travels—both within and beyond the continent—that shaped their avant-garde visions. While their paths rarely, if ever, crossed, they shared a collective interest in the itinerant and transnational possibilities of modernism. Join Joseph Shaikewitz, Curatorial Assistant, for a fun and informative lecture about this trio of South American sculptors. Taken together, their works engage themes of pleasure, sensuality, and liberation, and reveal how each artist performed gender and national identity to navigate the masculinist terrain of modern art.

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