FOCA Event TONIGHT!

The next FOCA event is on Tuesday, September 11th at 6pm in the Saint Francis Auditorium at the New Mexico Museum of Art.

FREE for FOCA members. $5 for non-members. Come early, as seating is limited!

Artist Talk with Polly Apfelbaum



Big Bubbles, 2000. Dye and Velvet. 560 cm in diameter.

Polly Apfelbaum has become internationally known for her installations of hand-dyed, cut velvet and other fabric, which she calls “fallen paintings” because they appear as if they have slid from the wall and come to rest on the floor. They are comprised of an accumulation of smaller “compositions” on velvet and appear to ooze into a given space like a viscous liquid in motion or the mitosis of cells. These works have allowed her to explore the nature of painting and sculpture, as well as textiles and the various connotations associated with them. In her lecture, Apfelbaum will talk about her fallen paintings as well as her most recent work, including a foray into printmaking with large-scale woodblock prints and lithographs she will be creating at Tamarind Institute, Albuquerque, in September.

Polly Apfelbaum (b. 1955) lives and works in New York. She is a graduate of the Tyler School of Art, and her work is included in numerous museum collections, among them the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Whitney Museum of American Art; the Brooklyn Museum of Art; the Armand Hammer Museum of Art, Los Angeles; the Henry Art Gallery, Seattle; and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago.