The systemic prejudicial gender imbalance of male/female artists perpetuated in both public and private galleries (The art gap, G2, 7 February) could be remedied. Publicly funded galleries could sell existing artworks to fund female parity, while having a part moratorium on the purchase of male artists’ work until equality is reached in, say, a maximum of 10 years’ time.
The current unfair situation has had a positive effect on my own work, leading me to make art about art itself. My piece titled “Painting Baselitz’s Bottom (while singing to our babies)” was done last year for my exhibition of the same name at the Gedok Gallery in Karlsruhe, Germany, which is part of a national organisation of galleries and events dedicated to women artists.
I don’t think that separating female artists is necessarily a good thing, but Gedok did give me my first good-sized solo show. Unthinkable in this country.
The writing in the background of the painting says “weapon of mass construction”. The words “Der Finanz Market” come from Baselitz’s penis straight to his mouth, thus making the point that the art world is more about money than art.
Judy Liebert
Nottingham
• Your article titled “The 10 most subversive women artists in history” (theguardian.com, 13 January 2014) should be retitled as “The 10 most subversive western women artists in history”, since the list lacks diversity in representation of women artists.
Shirley Kim-Ryu
Los Angeles, California
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