The story of Abstract Expressionism—the first genuinely American avant-garde movement, born in postwar New York—has long been told through a handful of names: Pollock, de Kooning, Rothko. The names of women who were equally present, equally radical, and in some cases equally important have only slowly, over decades, come in for their share of that history. This exhibition in Louisville presents more than 30 of these women—Helen Frankenthaler, Joan Mitchell, Lee Krasner, Grace Hartigan, Vivian Springford, and Claire Falkenstein among them. Somewhat remarkably, this is the first exhibition devoted to Abstract Expressionism in the state of Kentucky. —Elena Clavarino