Lee Krasner, Another Storm, 1963. Courtesy Kasmin Gallery, © Pollock-Krasner Foundation/ARS

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KRASNER AND POLLOCK IN THE NEWS

Reviews


The Times - Lee Krasner, Living Colour at the Barbican Art Gallery — a rousing and persuasive tribute

Lee Krasner’s bold art was constantly in flux, but her career was no less impressive for it, as a clever show reveals. Click here to read the full article.

The Wall Street Journal - Lee Krasner, Living Colour Review: From Pain to Primacy

A retrospective of the Abstract Expressionist painter contains some of the most exciting modernist works you’ll ever see. Click here to read the full article.
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Publications


Lee Krasner - The Unacknowledged Equal

In addition to its grant program, the Pollock-Krasner Foundation advances scholarship about Lee Krasner and Jackson Pollock. The Foundation has published critic and poet Carter Ratcliff’s new essay—which John Yau calls “eye-opening, thrilling, and indispensable”—to share new insights into the artists’ monumental and enduring contributions to the art world. Click here to read the full publication.

Apollo Magazine - Getting to Know Lee Krasner

Gail Levin's biography aims to set the record straight on the life and legacy of the great Abstract Expressionist Click here to read the full article.

The Guardian - Reframing Lee Krasner

Lee Krasner’s huge contribution to abstract expressionism was overshadowed for years by the work of her husband, Jackson Pollock. On the eve of a major London show, we trace her story. Click here to read the full article.
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Multimedia


The Great Women Artists Podcast with Katy Hessel: Lee Krasner

Katy Hessel interviews the exceptional curator, Eleanor Nairne, about the Abstract Expressionist sensationalist, LEE KRASNER!! Click here to listen to the full episode.

Getty Museum, Recording Artists Podcast: Lee Krasner

This episode focuses on Lee Krasner (1908–1984). Joining host Helen Molesworth are artists Lari Pittman and Amy Sillman. Click here to listen to the full episode.

Podcast: Has Art History Misrepresented Lee Krasner?

Listen to Eleanor Nairne and Gail Levin discuss the life and work of Lee Krasner with Louisa Buck. Click here to listen to the full episode.

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EXHIBITIONS

Current Exhibition

Seeing Past the Future – An Online Exhibition

Seeing Past the Future, an online exhibition of works by 2019-2020 Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant recipients, conceived by Shimon Attie, the inaugural Charles C. Bergman Endowed Visiting Professor of Studio Art at Stony Brook University’s College of Arts and Sciences, in conjunction with the Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center, is now open virtually. In consultation with Norman L. Kleeblatt, former chief curator at the Jewish Museum in New York, and with curatorial assistance from Talya Feldman, Attie has chosen a group of 29 artists who received Pollock-Krasner Foundation grants since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. Through the presentation of contemporary works by PKF grant recipients, Attie hopes to underscore how Pollock and Krasner’s legacy remains vibrant and relevant and continues through the practice of numerous working artists today. The exhibition includes 50 works in a wide range of media, aesthetics and conceptual strategies.
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Recent Exhibition

LEE KRASNER, COLLAGE PAINTINGS 1938 - 1981 AT KASMIN GALLERY

Featuring several masterpieces from the 1955 debut of Krasner’s collage paintings at the Stable Gallery, as well as significant works from the artist’s 2019–2021 traveling European retrospective, this exhibition provides American audiences with the opportunity to further examine one of Krasner’s most innovative practices.
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Away from the Easel: Jackson Pollock’s Mural at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

Away from the Easel is a focused exhibition dedicated to Pollock’s Mural, the artist’s first large-scale painting, and a work now in the collection of the University of Iowa Stanley Museum of Art.
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Lee Krasner. Living Colour at the Guggenheim Bilbao

Spanning a career of fifty years, Krasner’s oeuvre was characterized by constant reinvention and unceasing exploration.
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Lee Krasner. Living Colour at the Zentrum Paul Klee

The Zentrum Paul Klee is showing the first retrospective in Switzerland of the American artist Lee Krasner. As one of the pioneers of Abstract Expressionism, Krasner made vivid, powerful paintings which distinguish her as one of the most consistent artists of the 20th century.
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Lee Krasner: Living Colour at the Barbican

The first major presentation of her work in Europe for more than 50 years, Lee Krasner: Living Colour tells the story of a formidable artist, whose importance has too often been eclipsed by her marriage to Jackson Pollock.
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