Aboriginal Women Artists and Their Visions of Infinity

HYPERALLERGIC
By Bansie Vasvani

Angelina Pwerle, “Bush Plum,” detail

Despite the million-dollar auction price for works by Aboriginal Australian artists in 2007, the controversy about whether or not Australian Aboriginal art should be included in the Western canon hasn’t been entirely resolved. But the new exhibition Marking the Infinite, comprised of several commissioned works by nine Aboriginal women artists from the Denis and Debra Scholl collection at the Newcomb Art Museum of Tulane University, should put these conundrums to rest. Marking the Infinite gives voice and equal footing to Aboriginal artists as artists the world over. [More]