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Tag: Helen Frankenthaler

The Visual Magic of Helen Frankenthaler’s Los Angeles Prints

by Jennifer Remenchik October 13, 2020November 5, 2020

In 1979, Frankenthaler traveled west and was introduced to the gallery and studio Mixografia, where she would eventually produce a series of serene and exuberant prints.

Color Field, Then and Now

by David Carrier March 7, 2020March 7, 2020

I fear that the visual culture in which these works were admired is now one of those distant “you had to be there” moments, which are impossible to reconstruct.

A Podcast on Radical Women Unearths Rare Interviews With Alice Neel, Betye Saar, and More

by Alissa Guzman January 27, 2020January 29, 2020

This season of the Recording Artists podcast, hosted by Helen Molesworth, explores what it has meant to be a woman and artist through the lives of six iconic artists.

How Helen Frankenthaler’s Coastal Escapes Shaped Her Paintings

by Billy Anania September 11, 2019September 11, 2019

The summer hues of coastal Massachusetts deeply influenced Frankenthaler; its landscapes and seashores would become her muses for more than a decade.

Navigating the Overload at the Venice Biennale

by David Carrier July 6, 2019July 21, 2019

The Venice Biennale’s official exhibition, May You Live In Interesting Times, presents art that speaks to the present, not in the direct fashion of journalism, but in ways that can challenge existing habits of thought.

The Colors of the Sixties

by Thomas Micchelli April 6, 2019December 27, 2019

Spilling Over: Painting in the 1960s at the Whitney Museum expands the common understanding of a pivot point in American art, while basking unapologetically in the pure pleasure of looking.

The Met’s Wrong Turn on Revisionism

by David Carrier January 12, 2019January 10, 2019

When an exhibition is as puzzling as this one, it’s useful to step aside and reflect.

How the Mythic Heroines of the New York School Changed Modern Art

by Kathryn Watson October 3, 2018

Mary Gabriel charts the Abstract Expressionist movement through the lives of its five most prominent female painters in her newest work of biography, Ninth Street Women.

The Common Threads Between Female Quilters and Abstract Expressionists

by Claire Selvin January 12, 2018January 12, 2018

At one time or other these women’s craft was either considered lowbrow or was measured against the work of male contemporaries.

The Pursuit of Art, 2017

by Thomas Micchelli December 30, 2017January 4, 2021

A year of truth-telling and electric painting.

Helen Frankenthaler’s Panoramas of Paint

by Thomas Micchelli July 15, 2017July 15, 2017

Dual retrospectives of paintings and woodcuts underscore Frankenthaler’s restless experimentation in image and materials.

Sexism and the Canon: Three Female Artists Reflect on ‘Women of Abstract Expressionism’

by Kealey Boyd September 14, 2016September 16, 2016

DENVER — The paintings in Women of Abstract Expressionism at the Denver Art Museum are rich with emotion, monumental in scale, and totally original.

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