Woodward Lecture Series: Polly Apfelbaum

Polly Apfelbaum’s lecture “A Full Circle,” will look back over the forty-year history of her hybrid and multi-valent practice.
About this Event

Wasserman Projects and the College for Creative Studies (CCS) proudly present this event as part of CCS's esteemed Woodward Lecture Series.

Polly Apfelbaum’s lecture “A Full Circle,” will look back over the forty-year history of her hybrid and multi-valent practice. From her first one-person show in 1986 to her current exhibition “A Woman’s Circle” at Wassermann Projects, she has promiscuously navigated between painting, sculpture, craft, textiles, and installation, recycling and rethinking ideas from Abstract Expressionism, Minimalism, and Popular culture.

Polly Apfelbaum (b. 1955) lives and works between New York City and Arcadia, PA. Apfelbaum studied painting and printmaking at the Tyler School of Art in Pennsylvania, receiving a B.F.A. in 1978. Apfelbaum’s kaleidoscopic works feature lively color, geometric forms, and non-representational subjects. Her work incorporates textiles, clay, found objects, and other tactile elements traditionally associated with craft and domesticity. The prolific artist has mounted nearly 60 solo exhibitions worldwide and has participated in hundreds of group exhibitions. She has received awards and grants from organizations including Anonymous Was a Woman, the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, and the Joan Mitchell Foundation.

The lecture will take place in the Wendell B. Anderson, Jr. Auditorium in the Walter B. Ford II Building on the CCS Ford Campus (301 E. Frederick, Detroit, MI, 48202). Free parking is available in the CCS Brush St lot (on Brush just north of Frederick).