The Eye is the First Circle – march 2022 Premiere screening
The Eye is the First Circle premiered at the Denver Art Museum in March of 2022 to a packed house
Denver Art Museum
Beverly and David Schler speaking at the premier showing of The Eye is the First Circle - the documentary, at the Denver Art Museum
The Eye is the First Circle is based in part upon author Mary Gabriel’s New York Times bestselling book, Ninth Street Women, and the Denver Art Museum’s groundbreaking exhibition, Women of Abstract Expressionism.
“There is a whole generation young artists ... who look at the women of this generation as heroes, and who are really quite amazed by the struggles that they undertook to produce this kind of avant garde art”. - Elizabeth Smith / Helen Frankenthaler Foundation
“The Denver show was the big bang for women artists to re-orient the art world and the greater society to the idea that there were women working, that their work was significant, and that they were significant.” - Author Mary Gabriel / Ninth Street Women
“Post WWII everything shifted from Europe to the United States and for the first time the avant garde of the world was centered in the United States.” - Gwen Chanzit / Curator, Women of Abstract Expressionism
