Polly Apfelbaum – Red Desert, Red Mountain, Red Sea

Internationally renowned, New York based artist Polly Apfelbaum is known for her energetic, large-scale colorful installations of textiles, ceramics and paint. Apfelbaum (b. 1955 in Abington, Pennsylvania) has been exhibiting consistently in the US and internationally since the 1980s. Apfelbaum’s work crosses mediums from drawings, prints and paintings to sculpture and installations, while sharing interest in color, abstraction, post-war American culture, film, craft and design.

Apfelbaum has held recent solo exhibitions at: Arcadia University, Glenside, PA (2022, currently open), Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at Washington State University, Pullman, WA (2019) Belvedere 21, Vienna, Austria (2018), Ikon gallery, Birmingham, UK (2018) Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA (2016), Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA (2014), Clifton Benevento, New York, NY (2014); Burlington Arts Center, Burlington, VT (2014); Mumbai Art Room, Mumbai, India (2013). In addition, Apfelbaum has participated in dual and group exhibitions at: Kunstmuseum Luzern, (2022, currently open), Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY; CODA Museum, Apeldoorn, Netherlands; Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY; Kunstmuseaum Liechtenstein, Liechtenstein; Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, PA; Brown University, Providence, PA; MOCA Cleveland, OH; LACMA, Los Angeles, CA; Perez Art Museum Miami, FL; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY; Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, Magasin III Museum for Contemporary Art, Stockholm, Sweden.