“For this month, I chose works that spoke to me of this moment, of how we got here, and who we are, with the humor needed to understand, fight back, and get through it. Depictions of the female body in cinema, bodies holding each other, words that harm and ones that heal, and a pissed off cat. Works on paper are vastly underrated and are often the closest to the artist’s hand. A salon wall of drawings is always a fascinating personal point of view when I visit a serious collector’s home.”
Wendy Olsoff co-founded P·P·O·W alongside Penny Pilkington in the first wave of the East-Village Art Scene in New York City in 1983. Since its inception, the gallery has remained true to its early vision, exhibiting politically and socially conscious contemporary work in all media. An alumna of William Smith College (1978), Olsoff has lectured extensively throughout the United States at universities and museums. In 2012, Olsoff was a recipient of the Visual AIDS Vanguard Award for the gallery's dedication and support of artists in the LGBTQ+ community and her ongoing leadership in the fight against censorship. She is a founding Charter member of the Council for Feminist Art at the Brooklyn Museum and served on the Board of Directors of the Art Dealers Association of America as well as Visual AIDS.
