Irene Rice Pereira cared deeply about light, space, and vision. She was a poet and a philosopher as well as an artist.
Vision
Keep the Aspidistra Flying
Gestural strokes and decisive mark-making swirl around the central anchoring and thickly applied colors of rust and deep blue. Painted by the Abstract Expressionist artist Joan Mitchell, the work dates to Mitchell’s early career in New York, after she attended Smith College (1942–44) and the Art Institute of Chicago (1944–47) and before she moved her … Continue reading Keep the Aspidistra Flying
Where Are We Going?
James Hiroshi Suzuki completed the triptych, Where Are We Going? in 1957, when he was 24. With its bright, shimmering upper register and horizontal orientation, Where Are We Going? evokes a history of landscape painting and suggests an interest in the colors and shapes found in nature. The rich blues, soft brushwork, and triptych format … Continue reading Where Are We Going?
Eighteen Rows
A member of an avant-garde circle of musicians, artists, and intellectuals in postwar Germany, Mary Bauermeister came to the United States in 1962 and spent a decade working in New York. Interested since childhood in the mathematical principles behind natural processes, Bauermeister used natural materials such as sand, stones, or honeycombs. Bauermeister’s “stone pictures” are … Continue reading Eighteen Rows
Mrs. Lichtenstein
In Mrs. Lichtenstein, the mother of American Pop artist Roy Lichtenstein both shares space with, and turns away from, the viewer’s reflection.