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Polly Apfelbaum is an American Postwar & Contemporary artist who was born in 1955. Numerous key galleries and museums such as Locks Gallery have featured Polly Apfelbaum's work in the past.Polly Apfelbaum's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 313 USD to 11,004 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 2001 the record price for this artist at auction is 11,004 USD for Rubbing Colours, sold at Phillips London in 2016. Polly Apfelbaum has been featured in articles for , and . The most recent article is written for ArtDaily in August 2025.
The Museum of Modern Art presents Woven Histories: Textiles and Modern Abstraction, an in-depth exhibition that delves into the dynamic intersections between weaving and abstraction.
Contributed by Almog Cohen-Kashi / A rose has never had a fixed meaning. This simple flower swings between adoration and destruction, purity and rot, natural beauty and artificial symbolism.
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..g these important formative years, experimenting with various applications of dye (poured, blotted, stamped) and different organizing systems of color (geometric units, organic spills), that Apfelbaum...
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..Because they have no fixed configuration (individual elements are not permanently adhered to one another or the floor and are reorganized each time they are installed), Apfelbaum鈥檚 works resist the historic...
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..Polly Apfelbaum鈥檚 fifty ink-on-rayon synthetic velvet panels, unite the abstract and the serial through meditations on the potential of chaos through a lens of systematic gestures...
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.. Drawing from utilitarian weaving patterns, domestic traditions, and intuitive mark making, Apfelbaum made use of a found plastic punch card to fabricate these drawings...
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