When I was a student at the University of California, Los Angeles, I took a class titled European intellectual history, taught by a well-known historian.
He promised to talk about women's contributions at the end of the semester.
As I was intent on making a mark on art history, I was eager to learn about what women before me had done. Finally, the last class arrived. My professor strode into the room and arrogantly announced: "Women's contributions; they made none."
Portrait Artist
His assessment made me feel a freak; how dare I think that I could go where no woman before me had trod?
Unique Gift
But I had such a burning desire to make art that when I got out of graduate school (where I had many skirmishes with my male professors because they hated my biomorphic imagery), I worked 60 hours a week in my studio.
The LA art scene was extremely macho in the 60s and few women were taken seriously. For a decade I struggled to make a place for myself, but to accomplish this I had to adopt "male drag" – that is, make work that looked like that of my male peers and echoed their concerns.
By the end of that time I was fed up and wanted to be myself as a woman. I decided to look into history to see if there had been any before me who had encountered similar obstacles.
This was before there were any women's studies classes, so I had to ferret out information entirely on my own.
What I discovered changed my life. It also enraged me because my professor was completely wrong.
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