IDA APPLEBROOG

L’INTIME POLITIQUE

Exhibition from 29th October to 20th December 2009

[slideshow]Ida Applebroog, Installation views of the exhibit. “L’intime Politique”. All images ©The artist, Hauser & Wirth & Rebecca Fanuele

As part of the 38 WILSON PLATFORM*, Nathalie Parienté was pleased to present the third exhibition dedicated to the work of american artist Ida Applebroog, born in 1929 in the Bronx, one of the most prominent figures of the so-called feminist painting in the United States.

The exhibition Ida Applebroog, l’intime politique, featured a series of works, paintings and drawings by the artist between 1993 and 2007. It has been the opportunity to debate the social political content of Ida Applebroog’s work, through her often intimate representations of the body, and in particular the female body.

BIOGRAPHY

Born in 1929 in the Bronx, Ida Applebroog lives and works in New York. In the 60s, settled in California, the artist took an active part in the argumentative movements that rocked the American university environment in the thick of the Vietnam War. Then, fired by the same desire to pursue an artistic work in a spirit of social activism, she contributed to the birth of feminism and participated in the feminist journal «Heresies», with Lucy Lippard.

The 1970s marked the beginning of her recognition. In 1979, Ida Applebroog was selected by Konrad Fisher to take part in the exhibition With a Certain Smile, at Zurich KunsthHalle für Internationale Neue Kunst. Her exhibitions then snowballed all over the world. In 1987, Ida Applebroog participated in La Documenta 8 in Kassel and in 1987, her work entered the collection of New York Metropolitan Museum of Art.

In 1998, The Corcoran Gallery in Washington devoted a major retrospective to the artist.

Among her numerous distinctions, Ida Applebroog was awarded the MacArthur Foundation prize in 1998, along with the American video artist, Gary Hill.

The same year: Ida Applebroog. Innocence VERSUS Réalité, Galerie Nathalie Parienté, Paris.

2000, Ida Applebroog. Works on paper from the 80s. Galerie Nathalie Parienté, Paris.

From 2009 onwards, Ida Applebroog is represented by Hauser & Wirth.

Her work is featured in major american institutions such as: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, The Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica, New York, The Arizona State Art Museum, Tempe, Arizona, The Cincinnati Museum of Art, Cincinnati, Ohio, The Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado, The Milwaukee Museum of Art, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, The Northern Illinois University Art Museum, DeKalb, Illinois, The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, The Wadsworth Atheneum,Hartford, Connecticut, The Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Massachusetts, The Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro. In Europe: The Bayerische Staatsgemaldesammlungen, Munich, Germany, The Ulmer Museum, Ulm, Germany. In Russia: The Pouchkine Museum, Moscow. In Australia, Australia National Gallery, Sydney, and The National Gallery, Sydney. In Japan, The Tokyo International Forum, Tokyo, among others…