Jolie Stahl: Then & Now
Sep 18, 2021 - Oct 16, 2021
THEN: The oil paintings on exhibit were made by Jolie Stahl in the 1980s. They are graphic depictions of female force. Seen together they are an important part of the history of women in the New York artworld.
NOW: Stahl has been working in clay for over a decade. The artist’s ceramic vases demonstrate her continuing interest in the female form and feature images transposed in relief from masterworks by Poussin, Paula Modersohn-Becker and Matisse, to name a few. In our uncertain times Jolie Stahl’s intention is to endow her objects with figurative beauty.
“...comments about style sound strange to me. You work in this style or that style, as if you had a choice in the matter. What you’re doing is try to stay alive and continue and not die.”