NEW YORK, NY.- Lincoln Glenn Gallery is presenting Making Space: American Women Artists and the Century of Change, the gallery’s third annual summer group exhibition dedicated to women artists whose work helped define major movements of the last century and whose influence continues to grow and shape contemporary understanding of that period.

Making Space features over 25 works by artists who have played key roles in pioneering major art movements of the 20th century, all of whom have either exhibited at major museums or are represented in significant museum collections. Many of these artists were trailblazers, with early major museum exhibitions. Artists such as Mercedes Matter, Lynda Benglis, Lee Bontecou, Ida Kohlmeyer, Louise Nevelson, Virginia Berresford, Harmony Hammond, Diana Kurz, Joann Gedney, and Jane Freilicher represent a wide range of approaches, from abstraction and figuration to feminist and self-taught practices. Hung in a salon-style presentation and accompanied by a catalogue authored by Clanci Jo Conover, the exhibition aims to add to the broader narrative of the importance of women artists, deepening the conversation around their lasting impact and the ground they broke across generations, while continuing the well-earned attention many of these artists have received in recent decades.

At once historical and urgently contemporary, Making Space considers how women artists claimed visibility, authorship, and formal freedom in a century marked by shifting ideas around modernity, gender, labor, urbanization, abstraction, and identity. Through painting, sculpture, drawing, printmaking, and mixed media, the exhibition offers a nuanced view of artists who made space for themselves. Taken together, the works in Making Space do more than recover overlooked histories. They demonstrate that women artists were never peripheral to the story of American art; they were central to its reinvention. Across generations and geographies, these artists developed rigorous, independent practices that responded to the world around them while reshaping the possibilities of art itself.