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Pioneering feminist painter who lived in SoHo. Stylistically, her works are at once surreal, lyrical, and mythical owing to the interplay of calligraphic shapes and biomorphic curves with geometric shapes.

During the 1980s he invented sculpture-as-graffiti and was a driving force in the Rivington School. He bolted his welded sculptures to the city’s signposts — calling them “outstallations.” The title of one says it all: “I’m No Gallery Whore.” His recent paintings — AbEx Graffiti —...

Before he disappeared he was on the perfect path: studying under Josef Albers at Yale; a solo exhibition at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in 1966; internationally, several museums of modern art showed his paintings. But in his spiritual exploration he became reclusive and shunned galleries. In his...

Starting in 1963, Kokoschka inspired this protegé, Wayne Ensrud, to dig deeper than other young contemporary artists, most of whom had been misled into thinking that a focus of massive energy and emotion was enough to become a great painter. Instead, his epiphany was that painting is a metaphysical...

“There are two impulses in me – one towards riotous sensuality, the other toward order and restraint.”