Power of Suggestion

by Cornelia Butler

In this catalogue MOCA curator Connie Butler expands the concept of “drawing” and explores the reinvention of narrative through serial and notational approaches both on paper and outside the traditional parameters associated with drawing, including film, video, and installation. Essay by Cornelia H. Butler.

Genres: Art

46 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1996

About the author

Cornelia H. "Connie" Butler is Chief Curator at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles. From 2006-2013, she served as the Robert Lehman Foundation Chief Curator of Drawings at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA, New York City). Prior to that, she was a curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA) from 1996-2005. Butler also held curatorial positions at the Neuberger Museum of Art (Purchase, New York), Artists Space (New York City), and the Des Moines Arts Center (Iowa). Her multimedia exhibition WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution dealt with international feminist art of the 1970s. Butler is a 1980 graduate of Marlborough School, and a 1984 graduate of Scripps College.

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