About Lee Knaster Lozano

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    Born Lenore Knaster, Lee Lozano attended the Art Institute of Chicago in the 1950s and there met her future husband, Adrian Lozano. She went to New York and had some modest recognition, but spent much of her energy on marijuana and cheap booze. She was very troubled psychologically and the last twenty years of her life refused to speak to women.

    At first her work was cartoonish and overtly sexual, but by the mid 60s became more abstract and formal. Some of her works were tool paintings, depicting screws, pipes and wrenches in sombre colors.

    Source: ArtForum, October, 2001, Katy Siegel.

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