NATIONAL ACADEMY MUSEUM, NY | 2016
Miriam Schapiro, A Visionary presents a cross-section of works from each period of the artist’s remarkable, multifaceted sixty-year career, and will be Schapiro’s first survey exhibition in New York City, where she resided. In the ‘50s, Schapiro adhered to the principles of Abstract Expressionism; by the mid-‘60s she had developed a series of works using computer software. By 1970 her practice shifted dramatically, informed by her involvement in the Women’s Movement, and that year she founded, with Judy Chicago, the Cal-Arts Feminist Art Program. Throughout the ‘70s and early ‘80s, Schapiro was associated with the Pattern and Decoration movement, producing innumerable “femmage” works, which incorporated decorative scraps of fabric in her acrylic paintings. In the late ‘80s Schapiro returned to figuration in a series of works devoted to women artists, and in the ‘90s and 2000s, she explored subjects as varied as her Jewish identity, dance, and her love of dolls.
