The Eye is the First Circle -
The Documentary
A movement that changed modern art
The Eye is The First Circle, the documentary, is a film produced by Schler Productions, LLC., and PBS12 that recognizes the diverse group of women artists of the 1940s and 1950s who, until recently, have been absent from the narrative of art history.
The compelling story 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 heros, 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