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Cover Art Gallery

Over the past twenty years, Signs’s covers have featured the art of both well-known and less familiar women artists from around the world. Below is a gallery displaying some of the wonderful art that Signs has been privileged to publish. Click the image to view a full-size version of the art, or click the caption to learn more about each work and the artist who created it. All art displayed here is copyrighted and used with permission of the artist.

  • The Mothertongue Project – Walk: South Africa (2014 – 2019)

    Lavett Ballard – Her View (2016)

    Maggie Taylor, Reluctant Optimist (2013)

    Michele Pred – Power of the Purse (2016–2019)

    Julie Mehretu – Sing, Unburied, Sing (J.W.) (2018)

    Alison Saar – Grow’d (2019)

    Faith Ringgold – Echoes of Harlem (1980)

    Ida Applebroog – Emetic Fields (1985)

    Doris Salcedo – Shibboleth (2007)

  • Shahzia Sikander – Ready to Leave (1997)

    Gina Litherland – Tea Leaf Reading (2014)

    Paula Scher, World Trade,

    Paula Scher – World Trade (2010)

    Ana Teresa Fernández – Borrando la Frontera (Erasing the border) (2011)

    Ellen Driscoll – The Loophole of Retreat (1990-91)

    Gabrielle Le Roux, in collaboration with trans activists – Proudly African & Transgender (2008)

    Lorna Simpson – Five Day Forecast (1988)

    Wangechi Mutu – Eat Cake (2012)

    Mickalene Thomas – Sleep: Deux femmes noires (2012)

  • Renee Stout, Ezrulie's Arsenal

    Renée Stout – Erzulie’s Arsenal (2013)

    Andi Arnovitz – The Commerce of Infertility (2013)

    Judith Scott, Untitled (2003-4)

    Judith Scott – Untitled (2003-4)

    Devorah Sperber – After Picasso (Gertrude Stein) (2006)

    Stephanie Rond – Precocious, Columbus, Ohio, 2012

    Peng Wei – Robe Series (2003-2012)

    Maya Freelon Asante – Scattered to the Wind (2013)

    Judith Mason – The Man Who Sang and the Woman Who Kept Silent (1998)

    Rosa Menkman – “Shattered Horizons” (2010)

  • Kim Anno – Photograph (2010)

    Lucien Kubo – Japanese American Internment (2005)

    Toni Bowers and Natasha Ward - Detail from an untitled composition

    Toni Bowers and Natasha Ward – Detail from an Untitled Composition (2011)

    Magema - Goodbye Rosa

    Michèle Magema, Goodbye Rosa – 2005 (2005)

    Elena Figurina - Composition (2002; detail)

    Elena Figurina, Composition (2002)

    Still from Madeline Anderson's I Am Somebody (1969)

    Madeline Anderson, I Am Somebody (1969)

    Katarzyna Pollok, Sara in a Snailhouse (2002)

    Lisa A. Turngren, 2-Way Mirror (2004)

    Lisa A. Turngren, 2-Way Mirror (2004)

    Stacey Steers, Fish Dream (2006)

  • Paula Rego, The Policeman's Daughter (1987)

    Paula Rego, The Policeman’s Daughter (1987)

    Judith F. Baca, Uprising of the Mujeres (1979)

    Judith F. Baca, Uprising of the Mujeres (1979)

    Carmen McLeod, No Place

    Carmen McLeod, No Place (2007)

    Laura Splan, Gloves (2009)

    Prem Chowdhry, Scarlet Woman (2008)

    Prem Chowdhry, Scarlet Woman (2008)

    Nell Painter, Dedication (2008)

    Nell Painter, Dedication (2009)

    Bongi Kasiki, After the Rain (2009)

    Bongi Kasiki, After the Rain (2009)

    Leslie Lawrence, photograph (2009)

    Leslie Lawrence, photograph (2009)

    Jessica Perkins ????

    Jessica Perkins, Untitled (2009)

  • Kenojuack Ashevak, Woman with Fish (2006)

    Kenojuack Ashevak, Woman with Fish (2006)

    Judith K. Brodsky, detail, Women, Love, and Philosophy III (2004)

    Judith K. Brodsky, detail, Women, Love, and Philosophy III (2004)

    Yolanda M. López, Your Vote Has Power (2007)

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