Lee Lozano c. 1962

A powerful body of painting executed by Lee Lozano c.1962. These 27 works belong to the artist’s first major painting series and are stylistically distinct from the minimalist aesthetic of subsequent paintings, or the late conceptual works that brought her notoriety. Oil paint is heavily applied to vivacious figures and objects; intimate in scale, each is densely packed with sexually charged imagery and aggression. Lozano’s work and attitude radically dismantled notions of ‘the feminine’ at a time when the parameters of feminism were in their earliest stages of definition. The c.1962 paintings speak to the artist’s attempts to grapple with these boundaries. Lozano would remain an active presence in New York until 1972, when she made a dramatic withdrawal from the art world.