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Polly Apfelbaum: “Pennsylvania Modernism” going home

An OnDemand Online Lecture

Jan 12, 2022


Polly Apfelbaum started working with Gregg Moore in August 2020, for an exhibition and residency at Arcadia University.

The show, “For the love of Una Hale”, will be in Feb 2022. Apfelbaum grew up 10 minutes from Arcadia and the show investigates the influence of Pennsylvania German culture on her work. There is an artist in particular whose work will also highlighted: David Ellinger. His drag persona was Una Hale.

“What has been particularly striking about this time is how the ceramics have become front and center. Due to covid we were given more time but also it’s hard to put into words but a lot is cooking. I just love what we are doing but also its allows me to really think about my life and work. There is pure joy for me in this collaboration.

The ceramics for the last 10 years have worked their way into the installations. I did ceramics seriously in hippy high schools but not until I took a class at Greenwich house pottery had I revisited ceramics. That was just a fluke, a friend asked me to join her. I loved it, the social part too. Alice Mackler, Joanne Greenbaum, a great group, once a week. Then I went off to American Academy in 2012, found a class in Rome...and the rest is ancient history. Judy Phaff loaned me a kiln…

So I hope to give a little history but mostly talk about the new ceramics/residency/exhibition.”

– Polly Apfelbaum

Polly Apfelbaum

Polly Apfelbaum

Polly Apfelbaum graduated from the Tyler School of Art, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania …

Polly Apfelbaum

Polly Apfelbaum

Polly Apfelbaum graduated from the Tyler School of Art, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania. She has exhibited consistently since her first solo show 1986.  Her work has recently been recognized with a Pew Center for Arts Grant, a Creative Capital Award, and the 2012 Rome Prize at the American Academy.  She has also received a Joan Mitchell Grant, The Diebenkorn Fellowship, a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, an Anonymous Was a Woman Grant, and a Guggenheim Fellowship.

Recent solo exhibitions include: “Waiting For the UFO's (a space between a landscape and a bunch of flowers)” at the Kemper Museum, Kansas City, and the Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK; “Happiness Runs” at Belvedere 21, in Vienna, Austria; “Face Geometry,” OTIS College of Arts and Design, Los Angeles, CA; and “Deep Purple, Red Shoes,” Be-Part, Waregem, Belgium. She is represented in numerous collections including: Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY; Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA; Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA; Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY;  Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY.

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