{"id":8245,"date":"2019-07-09T10:00:17","date_gmt":"2019-07-09T14:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/?p=8245"},"modified":"2025-02-14T21:44:24","modified_gmt":"2025-02-15T02:44:24","slug":"polly-apfelbaum-in-painters-reply-experimental-painting-in-the-19702-and-now-at-lisson-gallery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/09\/polly-apfelbaum-in-painters-reply-experimental-painting-in-the-19702-and-now-at-lisson-gallery\/","title":{"rendered":"Polly Apfelbaum at Lisson Gallery"},"content":{"rendered":"

Why paint?\u00a0 In 1975, Artforum magazine posited the question to artists at a moment when enthusiasm for more contemporary approaches \u2013 from conceptual art to video – seemed to have pushed painting out of the vanguard.\u00a0 Lisson Gallery<\/a>\u2019s summer group show visits responses then and now as painters pushed the boundaries of what could be considered painting.\u00a0 Here, Polly Apfelbaum\u2019s synthetic velvet and dye piece \u2018Blue Joni\u2019 takes painting off the stretcher and even off of the wall.\u00a0 (On view in Chelsea through August 9th<\/sup>).<\/p>\n

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Polly Apfelbaum, Blue Joni, crushed four way stretch synthetic velvet and dye, 152.4 x 426.7cm, 2016.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Why paint?\u00a0 In 1975, Artforum magazine posited the question to artists at a moment when enthusiasm for more contemporary approaches \u2013 from conceptual art to video – seemed to have pushed painting out of the vanguard.\u00a0 Lisson Gallery\u2019s summer group show visits responses then and now as painters pushed the boundaries of what could be … <\/p>\n

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