Works by Anni Albers were included in this group exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art in New York
2017
Four works by Anni Albers were included in the critically acclaimed group exhibition Making Space: Women Artists and Postwar Abstraction at The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York.
Two of the works, both entitled Free-Hanging Room Divider, date from 1949, the year Anni Albers became the first textile artist to have a one-person show at The Museum of Modern Art; the exhibition Anni Albers: Textiles subsequently traveled to 26 venues throughout the United States and Canada. The other two works included in Making Space are Tapestry (1948) and Enmeshed I, a lithograph made in 1963 when Anni Albers added printmaking to her artistic repertoire, making it her primary medium from that point on.
In his review of the exhibition in The New York Times, Holland Cotter writes, "the grid as a form gets an impressive pre-Minimalist workout in 1940s room dividers made of cellophane and horsehair by the incomparable weaver, printmaker, art historian, philosopher, teacher, theorist and life-student Anni Albers."