The Ojibwe artist was active in New York's midcentury art scene and embraced by fellow Abstract Expressionists, yet he’s rarely in canonical histories today.

Installation view of Joan Mitchell 100, on display at the Art, Design & Architecture Museum, UC Santa Barbara. (Ingrid Bostrom photo) Artist Joan ...

Ken Jacobs, a leading experimental filmmaker who influenced both cinema and art in equal measure, died in New York on Sunday ...

Here's a family puzzle: How do you showcase your grandfather's career in honor of his passing two years ago, a career that spans more than five decades? For co-curator and granddaughter Isca ...

Abstract expressionism is coming to Washburn University. Mulvane Art Museum has opened a new exhibit: "Women of Abstract Expressionism." The exhibition contains paintings and drawings curated from the ...

The women of Abstract Expressionism are rising from obscurity in a big way. But, until this spring, one foundational West Coast figure had yet to receive her due. Through May 7, Van Doren Waxter in ...

His process turns the act of creation into performance, where the artist’s movements and repetitions become both the subject ...

For the past five years, New York’s Hollis Taggart gallery has been championing the work of Michael (Corinne) West (1908–1991), a little-known Abstract Expressionist woman painter whose life’s work ...

From George Morrison to June Leaf, the city is alive with wonderful abstract and carnivalesque art. As an independent publication, we rely on readers like you to fund our journalism. If you value our ...

Alfonso Ossorio, Beach Comber, 1953; oil on canvas, 84 3/8″ x 144 3/8″, signed and dated; Courtesy of Michael Rosenfeld Gallery LLC, New York, NY Viewing the works of Alfonso Ossorio for the first ...

Who would have guessed that there’s a small cadre of female abstract expressionist painters holed up at the New Orleans Academy of Fine Arts? Abstract expressionism is a beatnik-era style typified by ...

Before there was Jackson Pollock, there was Janet Sobel. Pollock became well known outside of art circles for splashing, pouring and flicking paint onto canvases. Some even considered him the inventor ...