Polly Apfelbaum's prints are reminiscent of the Color Field branch of Abstract Expressionist painting of the 1950s and»60s, but filtered through the fun, Elvis - in - Hawaii Americana kitch of the same period. (artspace.com)
The installation references the energies associated with abstract expressionist paintings of the 40's and 50 ″ s, where each garment becomes like a brush stroke on the gallery's architecture. (vernissage.tv)
These were the 60s and early 70s, and three sisters were growing up completely surrounded by Abstract Expressionist paintings by family friends and frequent visitors like Mark Rothko, Jackson Pollock, and Barnet Newman, but also by the Minimalist sculptures made by their father, Tony. (widewalls.ch)