The artist couple shared creativity and mutual devotion reflecting a period of light and joy that came after considerable darkness in their early lives.
Hollis Taggart Galleries
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Suchitra Mattai Probes the Monstrous Misperceptions Around Immigrant Identity
Mattai’s art is a searing indictment of the manufactured monstrosity of immigrant identity deeply embedded in the Western imagination.
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Leah Guadagnoli’s Joyous Kitsch
The works in Love Lies Bleeding were “made in the process of loss, heartache, and recovery,” but nowhere is there a dour note.
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The Cosmological Musings of Michael West, an American Abstract Expressionist
The artist, born Corinne Michelle West, is among the forgotten women of the postwar era, who rarely adhered to one style.
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Three Postwar American Painters Who Were Too European for New York
Long before globalism became a buzzword, Norman Bluhm, San Francis, and Paul Jenkins joined the artists and intellectuals from around the world in postwar Paris.
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Learning from an Artist’s Early Experiments with AbEx
For young painters today, Abstract Expressionism is ancient history; a few rooms in MoMA’s permanent collection galleries, a handful of images from the pages of Gardner or Janson, all set before a backdrop of a now mythical Downtown Manhattan of $200-dollar-a-month lofts.
