I couldn’t help but feel a bit nostalgic talking about gallery shows and leadership in the arts in this next great episode. Callie Jones—gallery owner, writer, and co-founder of COL Gallery in San Francisco—joins the Female Frequency Podcast, showing us what leadership in the art world looks like and why the future is female!
Callie takes us behind the scenes of COL Gallery’s latest show: an intimate retrospective, a journey through the evolution of Susan Weil. This rare exhibition offers a close look at Weil’s creative process—cutting, crumpling, and refiguring—revealing a multiplicity of perspectives through the lens of abstraction, deeply informed by the female experience, and places her firmly within postwar art history.
Hear the stories Weil lived through: studying in Paris in the late 1940s amid the echoes of modernism, then continuing her training at Black Mountain College, the legendary crucible of American art innovation. Now, after decades of being overlooked, her contributions—including early collaborative cyanotypes with Robert Rauschenberg—are finally being recognized, with works held at MoMA, The Met, and featured at the Venice Biennale and the V&A Museum.
Stay to the end—Callie also shares insider advice for artists and collectors navigating today’s evolving gallery world.
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