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Clifford Chance

Clifford Chance
Trial Balloon<br />

Trial Balloon

Virtual Pride Art Gallery 2022 – Americas

Included here is artwork by artists involved with Trial Balloon, a three-year project that was an alternative, feminist art space in New York City dedicated to exhibiting and supporting the work of female artists.

Founded in the early 1990s by queer artists Nicola Tyson and Angela Lyras, over the course of three years, Trial Balloon presented exhibitions in Tyson’s studio in Soho. 

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Photograph of Trail Balloon exhibiting artists

Sam Gordon, 2018, Left to right: Nicole Eisenman, Siobhan Liddell, Daphne Fitzpatrick and Trial Balloon co-founder Nicola Tyson, Courtesy Gordon Robichaux, NY

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'Silver and Blue'

Siobhan Liddell, 2016, Acrylic and paper on canvas, 24 x 24 x.75 in, Courtesy the artist, Photo Gregory Carideo

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'Feather Moon'

Siobhan Liddell, 2019, Unique digital print, 16.25 x 11.5 in, Courtesy the artist, Photo Gregory Carideo

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'Portrait Head #67'

Nicola Tyson, 2004, Acrylic on paper, 20 x 14 in, Courtesy the artist and Petzel Gallery

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'Three Bouquets (Purple #1)'

Nicola Tyson, 2002, Acrylic on paper, 10 x 7 in each, Courtesy the artist and Petzel Gallery

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