mail form
press contact
| a | b | c | d | e | f | g | h | i | j | k | l | m | n | o | p | q | r | s | t | u | v | w | x | y | z | all |
| Polly Apfelbaum | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Artist's Name: | Polly Apfelbaum | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Preferred medium: | painting | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| birth year: | 1955 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality: | US | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| City: | New York | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Polly Apfelbaum auf MyArtSpace |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
MyArtSpace is a free platform for artists who want to present their work. home page of MyArtSpace If you are Polly Apfelbaum you can create your own free profile page on MyArtSpace. Please send your request here. |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Polly Apfelbaum - Profile |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Describing her works as 'fallen paintings', Apfelbaum's practice brings together two of the legacies of twentieth century American art history: Minimalism and Pop Art. In recent years, Apfelbaum has employed imagery appropriated from Pop's father figure, Andy Warhol, in the form of dingbats and flower motifs. In addition to the floor-based installation work, these have appeared in many shapes and guises, such as vivid screen-prints, woodblocks or shapes drawn with dye on synthetic velvet. Other work is more abstract, utilising stains and blots that suggest organic form. In a departure from her usual practice of fabricating the elements of her work first in her New York studio, Apfelbaum will be making all the new work for Milton Keynes Gallery 's exhibition on-site when she arrives, over the course of five days. For the artist, it is important for the work to be 'situational' and to involve an element of performance, in direct response to the gallery space. "I think it helps move the work away from the object, thinking of it more as a series of relationships, both in space, but also in time - the piece only exists for the duration of the show." [Quote from an interview with writer and critic Morgan Falconer, Art World Magazine, February/March 2008]. This gives the work a more casual, impermanent feel - the artist has referred to it as an 'automatic abstraction'. In another departure for Apfelbaum, her new works will use what appear at first glance to be simple offcuts of highly reflective, sequined fabric. These hard-edged, spidery forms will contrast with her previous work which involved the aggregation of similar shapes and sizes. Instead they will offer spatially ambiguous yet compelling colour-themed installations that evoke more calligraphic and abstract readings. The installations in each of the Gallery's three rooms refer to three famous American gambling cities - Las Vegas, Reno and Atlantic City. In Atlantic City, Apfelbaum will explore the graphic possibilities of black, capitalising on the use of positive and negative shapes. Reno, a silver-themed room will explore silver's capacity to reflect and capture other colours while Las Vegas will be a multi-coloured room featuring thirteen colours in sequence (a colour system determined by the available colours from the fabric manufacturer's line). (Milton Keynes Gallery) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
important exhibitions from Polly Apfelbaum |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
WHAT'S ON - current exhibitions with Polly ApfelbaumPainting . . . EXPANDED03/11/2011 - 01/07/2012Gabriel Orozco Reena Spaulings Tal R Gelitin Shahzia Sikander Polly Apfelbaum Yinka Shonibare ...
Santurce |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
artist's websiteexternal Link to the website of the artist or his gallery/institution: Polly Apfelbaum |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Galleries representing
Angles Gallery |
Collections representing
ARCO Foundation Collection |
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
