Polly Apfelbaum

Polly Apfelbaum
Polly Apfelbaum, 2021, at Atelier Amden, Switzerland
Born (1955-07-04) July 4, 1955 (age 69)
Abington, Pennsylvania
NationalityAmerican
EducationBFA, Tyler School of Art, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania, 1978; SUNY Purchase College, New York

Polly E. Apfelbaum (born July 4, 1955) is an American contemporary visual artist, who is primarily known for her colorful drawings, sculptures, and fabric floor pieces, which she refers to as "fallen paintings".[1] She currently lives and works in New York City, New York.[1]

Biography

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Polly Apfelbaum was born in 1955 in Abington Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.[1] Apfelbaum has lived and worked in New York City since 1978. That same year, she received her BFA from the Tyler School of Art in Elkins Park, Pennsylvania.[1] Apfelbaum also received training from SUNY Purchase College in New York.[1] She has been showing her work consistently in the United States and internationally since her first one-person show in 1986.

Apfelbaum came to prominence in the 1990s and is best known for what the artist refers to as her "fallen paintings."[1] These large-scale, 'anti-monumental', horizontal installations consist of hundreds of hand-cut and hand-dyed pieces of velvet fabric that are arranged on the floor.[2] These installations exist as a hybrid between painting and sculpture and occupy an ambiguous space between the two genres. Lane Relyea states "Apfelbaum's work is both painting and sculpture, and perhaps photography and fashion and formless material process as well."[3]

In 2003, a major mid-career survey show of Apfelbaum's work opened at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia. The show traveled through 2004 to the Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati, OH, and the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art in Kansas City, MO.[4] In conjunction with the exhibition, a catalogue surveying 15 years of the artist's work was published by the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia.


Exhibitions

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Polly Apfelbaum has exhibited widely since the 1980s, including one-person exhibitions at: Alexander Gray Associates (2017);[5] Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA (2016);[6] la chapelle Saint-Jean (Le Sourn), part of L’art dans les chapelles – 26e édition (2017);[7] 56 Henry (2016);[8] Bepart, Waregem, Belgium (2015);[9] Clifton Benevento (2014);[10] Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA (2014);[11] lumber room, Portland, OR (2014);[12] Burlington City Arts Center (2014);[13] Mumbai Art Room, Mumbai, India (2013).[14]

Detail of "The Potential of Women" at Alexander Gray, New York, NY, September 7 - October 21, 2017

Two person shows including: "The Sound of Ceramics" with Wang Lu (2016);[15] "Erasing Tracing Racing Paint" with Dona Nelson (2016);[16] "Karma Funk Factory" with Steven Westfall (2014);[17] "For the Love of Gene Davis" with Dan Cole (2014);[18] "Studiowork" with Nicole Cherubini (2010);[19]

Her work has been featured in numerous group exhibitions including: An Irruption of the Rainbow, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA (2016); Wall to Wall, MOCA Cleveland, Cleveland, OH (2016); Pretty Raw: After and Around Helen Frankenthaler, Rose Art Museum, Waltham, MA (2015); Three Graces, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY (2015); Pathmakers: Women in Art, Craft and Design, Midcentury and Today, Museum of Art and Design, New York (2015); AMERICANA: Formalizing Craft, Perez Art Museum Miami, Miami, FL (2013); Regarding Warhol: Sixty Artists, Fifty Years, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, (2012); Operativo, Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City, (2001) The Night, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco; Reckless, Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma; Helsinki, Finland; Skin and Bones, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME; What Does Love Have to Do With It, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston; Today I Love Everybody, Triple Candie, New York; and Crazy Love, Love Crazy,[20] Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, MO.

Apfelbaum's work has also been featured in a number of notable museum exhibitions including Sense and Sensibility: Women and Minimalism in the 90s,[21] Comic Abstraction[22] and Lines, Grids, Stains and Words,[23] all at the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Painting-The Extended Field, Magasin 3, Stockholm, Sweden; Postmark: An Abstract Effect, Site Santa Fe, NM; Operativo, Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City, Mexico; Sculpture as Field, Kunstverein Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany; The Eye of the Beholder, Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee, Scotland; As Painting: Division and Displacement, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH; Flowers Observed, Flowers Transformed at The Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA; and Extreme Abstraction,[24] at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY.

She was featured in several biennale’s including Beyond Borders Beaufort Biennial, Mu.ZEE, Ostend, Belgium, Lodz Biennale, Lodz, Poland; Painting Outside Painting, 44th Corcoran Painting Biennial at the Corcoran Museum of Art in Washington D.C.; Other, 4th Biennale D'art Contemporain de Lyon, France; Everyday, 11th Biennale of Sydney, Australia; and Bienal de Valencia, Valencia, Spain.

Honors

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In 2002 Apfelbaum was the recipient of an Academy Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.[25] In 2012-2013, she was the recipient of the Joseph H. Hazen Rome Prize, a prize which is awarded to a select group of individuals who represent the highest standard of excellence in the arts and humanities. She has also been a recipient of a Joan Mitchell Grant, a Richard Diebenkorn Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1993,[26] an Artist’s Fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts, and the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant.[27]

Public collections

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Polly Apfelbaum's work is in a number of museum collections including:

References

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  1. ^ a b c d e f "Polly Apfelbaum", National Museum of Women in the Arts, Retrieved 31 October 2018.
  2. ^ Gipson, Ferren (2022). Women's work: from feminine arts to feminist art. London: Frances Lincoln. ISBN 978-0-7112-6465-6.
  3. ^ Relyea, Lane (2003). Polly Apfelbaum : what does love have to do with it. Boston: Massachusetts College of Art. p. 35. ISBN 9780970835765.
  4. ^ "Polly Apfelbaum". Institute of Contemporary Art (Philadelphia, PA). 2003-07-27. Archived from the original on 2017-09-20. Retrieved 2022-10-16.
  5. ^ "Polly Apfelbaum". The New Yorker. Retrieved 24 March 2018.
  6. ^ Critic, Christopher Knight, Art (15 October 2016). "Polly Apfelbaum's fallen paintings and beads of devotion in her secular chapel of abstract art". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 24 March 2018.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  7. ^ "L'Art dans les chapelles – 26e édition". 26 July 2017.
  8. ^ "Polly Apfelbaum at 56 Henry". www.artforum.com. Retrieved 24 March 2018.
  9. ^ "Nieuws Tentoonstellingen 'Deep Purple, Red Shoes' van Polly Apfelbaum en 'Surface Secluded Objects' van Kato Six in Be-Part (Waregem)". Archived from the original on 2017-09-22. Retrieved 2017-09-21.
  10. ^ Rosenberg, Karen (24 July 2014). "Polly Apfelbaum: 'A Handweaver's Pattern Book'". The New York Times. Retrieved 24 March 2018.
  11. ^ "Apfelbaum's works shimmer with allusion in Worcester - The Boston Globe". The Boston Globe. Retrieved 24 March 2018.
  12. ^ "Polly Apfelbaum's 'Color Stations Portland' at the Lumber Room". 8 April 2014. Retrieved 24 March 2018.
  13. ^ Polston, Pamela. "Art Review: Polly Apfelbaum, BCA Center". Retrieved 24 March 2018.
  14. ^ "This website is currently unavailable". www.mumbaiartroom.org. Retrieved 24 March 2018.
  15. ^ Klein, George (29 September 2016). "New exhibit in Granoff experiments with shape, sound". Retrieved 24 March 2018.
  16. ^ Pagel, David (18 March 2016). "Renegade abstractions of Polly Apfelbaum and Dona Nelson make for a stellar art show". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 24 March 2018.
  17. ^ "Apfelbaum and Westfall unpack abstraction at The Suburban". Retrieved 24 March 2018.
  18. ^ "Polly Apfelbaum and Dan Cole - artforum.com / critics' picks". www.artforum.com. Retrieved 24 March 2018.
  19. ^ Rosenberg, Karen (16 July 2010). "Polly Apfelbaum, Nicole Cherubini, Mark di Suvero". The New York Times. Retrieved 24 March 2018.
  20. ^ "Polly Apfelbaum: Crazy Love, Love Crazy". Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis.
  21. ^ "Sense and Sensibility: Woman Artists and Minimalism in the Nineties". Museum of Modern Art.
  22. ^ "Comic Abstraction: Image-Breaking, Image-Making". MoMA. Retrieved 2014-04-07.
  23. ^ "Lines, Grids, Stains, Words". MoMA. Retrieved 2014-04-07.
  24. ^ "Extreme Abstraction". Albright-Knox Art Gallery. 2005-10-02. Retrieved 2014-04-07.
  25. ^ "Polly Apfelbaum", Academy of Arts and Letters, Retrieved 31 October 2018.
  26. ^ Polly Apfelbaum, Guggenheim Fellowship.
  27. ^ Polly Apfelbaum among the artists that received the grand, Pollock-Krasner Foundation.
  28. ^ "Brooklyn Museum". www.brooklynmuseum.org. Retrieved 2021-01-14.
  29. ^ "Polly Apfelbaum | The Israel Museum, Jerusalem". www.imj.org.il. Retrieved 2021-01-14.
  30. ^ "Polly Apfelbaum". Magasin III. Retrieved 2021-01-14.
  31. ^ "Polly Apfelbaum. Blossom. 2000 | MoMA". The Museum of Modern Art. Retrieved 2021-01-14.
  32. ^ "Polly Apfelbaum | Artist Profile". NMWA. Retrieved 2021-01-14.
  33. ^ "Wallflowers (Mixed Emotions)". Speed Art Museum. Retrieved 2021-01-14.
  34. ^ "Exchange: Flower Patch". exchange.umma.umich.edu. Retrieved 2021-01-14.
  35. ^ "Polly Apfelbaum | Flags of Revolt and Defiance". whitney.org. Retrieved 2021-01-14.
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