|
VIEW
PORTFOLIO
Born in Manhattan, New York,
she became the leader of the Color Field painters
in New York City, emerging in the 1950s under the
influence of Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning.
Her work is a transition from Abstract Expressionism.
She
was educated at New York's Dalton School, and in
high school studied with Rufino Tamayo and later
with Hans Hofmann. She attended Bennington College.
Her family vacationed in Maine where she learned
to love open views of land and sea, subject matter
and an attitude of expansiveness reflected in her
canvases.
With a studio in New York, her
mentor became art critic Clement Greenberg who introduced
her to most of the prominent 1950s artists including
Pollock and DeKooning, her inspirations for gestural
technique, Action Painting. From 1958 to 1971, she
was married to artist Robert Motherwell.
Her technique
was novel. Rather than painting on a primed canvas,
she poured paint over an unprimed surface that allowed
the paint to soak into the canvas. This staining
and the process involved became her trademark style,
and a whole generation of artists, known as Color
Field painters, followed her. Her large studio has
been in New York City.
In 1999, she won the Jerusalem
Prize for Arts and Letters, given by the Friends
of Israel's National Academy of Arts and Design.
VIEW
PORTFOLIO |
