Howardena Pindell
Untitled, 1970, Acrylic on canvas, 69 x 79 1/8 inches
Artemis, 1986, Mixed media on canvas, 71 1/2 x 77 inches
Painting, shapes, circles, numbers, and abstraction against canvas and in pursuit of memory.
Born in Philly, 1943. First woman of color curator at MoMa; co-founder of A.I.R. Gallery—1st all-women art cooperative gallery in NY.
1967 - 1979
“In the late 1970s, Pindell began to cut and tear canvases before suturing them back together into complex patterns, building up their surfaces in stages by incorporating the punched chads onto her canvases and squeegeeing acrylic through the ‘stencils’ left in the paper from which she had punched the dots” (Greenan).
Untitled #84, 1977, Mixed media on board, 12 1/2 x 18 inches
Mother: Umbra Penumbra, 1997, Mixed media on canvas, 51 x 95 1/2 inches
Untitled #4, 1973, Mixed media on board, 10 x 8 inches
Professor Pindell—State University of New York, Stony Brook . Writer.
1972
“In 1979, a car accident left the artist with acute memory loss. The crash, and her subsequent rehabilitation, literalized the metaphorical process of destruction and reconstruction at work in her paintings” (Greenan).
Autobiography: Scapegoat, 1990, Mixed media on canvas, 72 x 141 inches
In the works following her accident, Pindell used previously collected postcards and photographs to piece her memory back together. The Autobiography series represents the connection between her embodied experience and interests in abstraction, and fragments.
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