Miriam Schapiro

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Miriam Schapiro or Shapiro (born November 15, 1923 in Toronto , Canada , † June 20, 2015 in Hampton Bays , New York ) was an American artist of Canadian origin. She was a pioneer in the field of feminist art and a participant in the artistic "Pattern and Decoration movement".

life and work

Miriam Schapiro was the only child of Russian-Jewish parents, Fannie Cohen (1899–1998) and Theodore Schapiro (1898–1999), whose grandparents had emigrated from Russia. Miriam Schapiro studied at the University of Iowa , where she met the artist Paul Brach (1924–2007), whom she married in 1946. In 1951 they moved to New York and made friends with many artists at the New York School , such as Joan Mitchell , Larry Rivers and Michael Goldberg . During her stay in New York in the 1950s and 60s, Schapiro had a successful career as a painter in the style of Abstract Expressionism and especially in the form of Hard Edge . In 1955 their son Peter was born.

In the 1970s she moved to California and founded the Feminist Art Program at the California Institute of the Arts together with Judy Chicago . In 1972 she took part in the " Womanhouse " exhibition in Hollywood .

Schapiro's work since the 1970s consists mainly of collages , made from a mixture of painted parts and fabrics, which she calls "femmages". Her essay Waste Not Want Not: An Inquiry into What Women Saved and Assembled - FEMMAGE , written in 1977/78 with Melissa Meyer, describes “femmage” as the use of collage, assemblage , decoupage and photomontage in the form traditionally used by women : when sewing, cutting, appliqué, cooking and the like. In 1988 he created a collage with the portrait of Frida Kahlo .

In 1999 Miriam Schapiro was elected a member ( NA ) of the National Academy of Design in New York .

Schapiro's works are exhibited in numerous museums, for example in the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC. Her important role in art became evident in 2002 when she received the "Distinguished Artist Award for Lifetime Achievement" from the College Art Association , the national American organization of artists and art historian, clearly. She died on June 20, 2015 at the age of 91 in Hampton Bays, New York.

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  1. ↑ Quoted from jwa.org
  2. ^ Avital H. Bloch, Lauri Umansky, Impossible to Hold: Women and Culture in the 1960's , NYU Press, 2005, p. 319. ISBN 0-814-79910-8
  3. ↑ Fred S. Kleiner, Christin J. Mamiya, Helen Gardner, Gardner's Art Through the Ages , Thomson Wadsworth, 2005, p. 1073, ISBN 0-155-05090-7
  4. ↑ Kristine Stiles , Peter Selz , Theories and Documents of Contemporary Art: A Sourcebook of Artists' Writings , University of California Press, 1996, p. 151 ff. ISBN 0-520-20253-8
  5. ↑ nationalacademy.org: National Academicians "S" / Schapiro, Miriam, NA 1999 ( Memento of the original from July 15, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on July 15, 2015) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.nationalacademy.org
  6. ↑ Quoted from jwa.org
  7. ^ William Grimes: Miriam Schapiro, 91, a Feminist Artist Who Harnessed Craft and Pattern, Dies. In: The New York Times, June 24, 2015 (accessed June 25, 2015).
personal data
SURNAME Schapiro, Miriam
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Shapiro, Miriam
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American feminist artist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH November 15, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Toronto , Canada
DATE OF DEATH 20th June 2015
Place of death Hampton Bays , New York