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Girls' Club Foundation (Girls' Club) is a non-profit art foundation and alternative art space, located in downtown Fort Lauderdale. Contemporary art works in painting, drawing, photography and video are presented in curated, thematic exhibitions which also include works loaned from other collectors, galleries and artists. Artists represented in the Girls' Club collection are a diverse body of women and men, from many ethnicities and nationalities.

The collection contains the works of a number of well-known artists such as Kiki Smith, Sophie Calle, Diane Arbus, Ana Mendieta, Nikki S. Lee, Barbara Kruger, Louise Nevelson, Jenny Holzer, Gregory Crewdson, Elizabeth Murray, Pipilotti Rist, Loretta Lux, Nancy Spero, Gillian Wearing, Alice Neel, Cindy Sherman, Naomi Fisher, Dana Schutz, Tracey Emin, Arturo Herrera, Mickalene Thomas, Kara Walker, Annette Messager, Nan Goldin and Jen Stark. Girls’ Club exhibitions are free and open to the public, and are generally on view for a full year.[2]

Mission Girls’ Club’s mission is to educate the public, nurture the careers of female artists, and to serve as a resource for art students and scholars, curators, and practicing artists. A special commitment is made to expose the work of local artists to a broader national and international audience. Girls’ Club’s website features a comprehensive online artist database with biographical information and relevant web links on artists in the collection, facilitating further study on the works and careers of contemporary women artists. Web projects by artists, interviews and texts by writers and a blog extends the presence of Girls’ Club onto the worldwide web. [3]

History Girls' Club was founded in 2006 by artist Francie Bishop Good and her husband David Horvitz[4] Girls' Club's inaugural exhibition opened in Fall 2007, with "Talking Heads", and featured photographs, paintings & multi-media works that explored individual identity, emphasizing phases of development in women's lives. In addition to works from the collection, Girls’ Club presented works borrowed from other private collections, from galleries, & directly from artists’ studios, in order to share with the public many relevant works before they receive commercial gallery success or a museum imprimatur.

2008-2009 exhibition was "Under the Influence", explored the phenomenon of cross-pollination that occurs at every level of arts production today. The presentation of this exhibition is a collaborative endeavor, co-presented by the Art & Culture Center in Hollywood, Florida. Both organizations are dedicated to enriching the arts community in Broward County, South Florida with cutting edge shows.

Under the Influence demonstrates the multi-faceted roles artists play in the contemporary art scene. Artists as curators exert a powerful influence on posterity, re-shaping the context in which artwork is seen and understood. The three curators/artists organizing the exhibition play multiple roles in the arts community, and their individual aesthetic and conceptual leanings will be felt. Under the Influence is assembled by a curatorial team of three artists – collector and Girls’ Club founder Francie Bishop Good, Girls’ Club Director and arts writer Michelle Weinberg, and Curator of Exhibitions at Art & Culture Center of Hollywood and art consultant Jane Hart.

Artist include: Alison Elizabeth Taylor, Cristina Lei Rodriguez, Elizabeth Murray, Gregory Crewdson, Ann Hamilton, Nikki S. Lee, Nancy Spero, Joanne Greenbaum, Jen Stark, Louise Lawler, Suzanne McClelland, Pae White, Quisqueya Henriquez, Kevin Arrow and more.

Building Girls’ Club’s facility is a dynamic, multi-functional building designed by award-winning architect Margi Nothard of Glavovic Studio in Fort Lauderdale.[9] [10]The facade is made from polyester fiberglass resin panels and lit from behind, creating a glowing, translucent skin at night. The interior is a flexible space of pivoting, movable walls, designed to change with rotating exhibitions.[11]

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