Artists' Fellowship - 1990
Painting
Artist Statement:
continued work on paintings.
More about the Artist:
Ida Applebroog’s paintings are known for their graphic style and whimsical, theatrical figures. Applebroog often makes installations out of two-dimensional canvases by arranging and stacking them in space. In her most characteristic work, she combines popular imagery from everyday urban and domestic scenes, sometimes paired with text, to distort and emphasize the anxiety and humor found in mass media and concepts of identity. Of her own work Applebroog has said:
“When I’m doing these pieces a lot of it has to do with creating my own characters, creating my own narratives. They never have a beginning, an end, a middle. But they are people...they are characters that have a life and everyone can interpret that particular character very differently. In this way I’ll never say, “This is supposed to be a long skinny lady who’s been unhappy.” And you know someone will look at it and say, “I can’t stand looking at that, it makes me very uncomfortable.” Well, that’s good too.”
In addition to paintings, Applebroog has also created sculptures, artist’s books, several films, and animated shorts that appeared on the side of a moving truck and on a giant screen in Times Square.
Applebroog has received many awards, including a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Achievement Award (1993) and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the College Art Association. Her work has been shown in many solo exhibitions in the United States and abroad, including the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston; and the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, among others.
To purchase works by or about Ida Applebroog click below:
Are You Bleeding Yet?
Nostrums, Paintings; Belladonna: A Film Tape
Ida Applebroog: Happy Families: A Fifteen Year Survey
Ida Applebroog: Nothing Personal, Paintings 1987-1997 Support NYFA’s web site and programs by patronizing Amazon.com, which donates a percentage of all sales generated through this web site.
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