Archives: <span>Artists</span>

Iria was the first Finnish woman pioneer of abstract painting in America. Prolific but reclusive, her bold abstract paintings are a uniquely vibrant cultural fusion of Finland and America. Her loft in SoHo became a virtual time capsule preserving five decades of paintings.

John Matt was one of the most significant sculptors in America during the last quarter of the 20th century. He invented an entirely new class of abstract sculpture where biomorphism fuses with technical machinery to become an elegant sonata.

McNease was a self-proclaimed “feral artist” of the bayou — a true self-taught Outsider who lived alone at the edge of Honey Island Swamp, Louisiana. Early on he gained serious critical recognition for his abstract natural photography. He then invented an entirely new technique of pigment...

His paintings refuse to be categorized. In a TedX Talk before his passing, he said, “Art is about asking questions and distrusting easy answers.” His works are lauded for a unique approach combining brightly colored abstraction, text, and cartoon figures. They are brilliant streams of...

Geoffrey Moss has led double lives ever since he earned his MFA in the 1950s at Yale under Josef Albers. Twice he was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for his political drawings — yet, he has also remained a prolific abstract painter.