NEW YORK, NY.- This exhibition was conceived of by Jill Moser, who organized it in collaboration with Melissa Meyer. Both have long-standing relationships with gallerist Jill Weinberg Adams, and have had numerous solo shows at Lennon, Weinberg. The gallery opened in Soho in 1988, and during its nearly three decades has been stalwart in support of its evolving roster of artists who are women, and who work in a wide range of mediums including painting, video, photography, sculpture, installation and printmaking.

Moser and Meyer reached out to the eleven women who either are currently or were formerly represented by the gallery, a group who Moser recognized as

"A kind of ‘accidental community’ that provided an opportunity to explore a question: what are the lines of influence and affinities among women artists, lines that cross time, place and medium. We posed this project to each of the eleven artists by asking them to choose both a woman artist who was an early influence and another with whom they have a current affinity."

"This self-curated show is the outcome of a sort of natural experiment to explore the shape of these connections. The results convey a virtual community of influence that is reflected in the contour of the show. It documents the distinct ways that individual women artists have informed one another."

Melissa Meyer selected Lee Krasner and Laurie Reid; Jill Moser selected Lynda Benglis and Amy Sillman; Robin Hill chose Eva Hesse and Mary Hambleton; Cindy Workman chose Marilyn Minter; Harriet Korman selected Dona Nelson and Ruth Hardinger; Laura Larson chose Martha Rosler and Sheilah Wilson; Mary Lucier chose Joan Jonas and Cecelia Condit; Denyse Thomasos’s affiliation is with Frances Barth; Catherine Murphy selected Sylvia Plimack Mangold and Judy Linn; Mia Westerlund Roosen chose Louise Bourgeois and Jeanne Silverthorne; and Louise Fishman chose her mother Gertrude Fisher-Fishman, her aunt Razel Kapustin, along with Harriet Korman.

Citings/Sightings is dedicated to three important women. To Carolyn Lanchner, an exceptional, ground-breaking curator of painting and sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art. To Shirley Jaffe, an American artist who was a good friend of Carolyn’s, worked with remarkable independence in Paris most of her life, and was an important mentor to younger French and American artists. And to Joan Mitchell, who also moved to France in the 1950s, was a friend of Shirley’s and who was, in many ways, a significant early influence for Jill Weinberg Adams. Mitchell was represented by Xavier Fourcade, and was both role model and mentor to Jill as she began her gallery career forty years ago.