15 Women-Led Art Shows to See in New York This Fall

To inform her new collection of watercolors and paintings, artist Emma Kohlmann looked to the late Monica Sjöö’s 1987 feminist tome The Great Cosmic Mother, a guide for the Goddess movement that wove together religion, archaeology, and culture to connect women to the earth. Sjöö’s inspiration is clear in Kohlmann’s ritualistically rendered earth-toned flora and fauna, symbols, and primitive figures, which, with their gridlike arrangement in the gallery, beg for quiet veneration.

Through October 4.

Hanson’s work has graced the pages of every major fashion magazine (this one included), and “In the ‘90s,” the latest exhibit coinciding with a Rizzoli book of the same name, celebrates one specific and wildly influential period of it. Hanson’s lens on fashion is unique because her friendship with her subjects created a relaxed, playful intimacy. It’s Naomi and Carolyn and Kate and Christy et al, unfiltered—which is to say, at their absolute coolest. As Sofia Coppola quips in the book: “I grew up with these images; these were the women I wanted to be… They’re not trying to be sexy, or someone else, they just are.”