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Born 1943 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Known for: Abstraction, collage, graphics.
Painter Howardena Pindell, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1943, had a life and art-altering experience in a 1979 car accident when she suffered severe injuries and temporary loss of memory.... Read full biography
Painter Howardena Pindell, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1943, had a life and art-altering experience in a 1979 car accident when she suffered severe injuries and temporary loss of memory. Prior to this shattering experience, Pindell had been a figurative artist who had moved into large... Read full biography
Painter Howardena Pindell, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1943, had a life and art-altering experience in a 1979 car accident when she suffered severe injuries and temporary loss of memory. Prior to this shattering experience, Pindell had been a figurative artist who had moved into large abstractions, no doubt accelerated by twelve years in the curatorial department of the Museum of Modern Art. Following the accident, she went to Japan in 1980 for seven months immersing herself in the... Read full biography
Painter Howardena Pindell, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1943, had a life and art-altering experience in a 1979 car accident when she suffered severe injuries and temporary loss of memory. Prior to this shattering experience, Pindell had been a figurative artist who had moved into large abstractions, no doubt accelerated by twelve years in the curatorial department of the Museum of Modern Art. Following the accident, she went to Japan in 1980 for seven months immersing herself in the culture there. She also collected postcards depicting familiar places to help her regain her memory. She would later use these and other cards in collaged compositions. Upon her return to the United States, she began creating art with intense... Read full biography
Painter Howardena Pindell, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1943, had a life and art-altering experience in a 1979 car accident when she suffered severe injuries and temporary loss of memory. Prior to this shattering experience, Pindell had been a figurative artist who had moved into large abstractions, no doubt accelerated by twelve years in the curatorial department of the Museum of Modern Art. Following the accident, she went to Japan in 1980 for seven months immersing herself in the culture there. She also collected postcards depicting familiar places to help her regain her memory. She would later use these and other cards in collaged compositions. Upon her return to the United States, she began creating art with intense sociological content based on her life experience and black heritage. Becoming, in essence, a performance artist, Pindell created a video in 1980, "Free... Read full biography
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Keywords (33)
Art Method
- •Collage and/or Decoupage
- •Easel Painting
- •Graphic Design, Printmaking, Lithography, Etching, Woodblocks
- •Illustration, Illustrator
- •Murals: Design, Painting, Fresco, Mosaic, Glass
Art Media
- •Assemblage
- •Mixed Media, Multi Media and/or Multli Styles
- •Oil Paint
- •Pen and Ink Drawing
- •Tempera
- •Video Art, Documentary Photo, Cinema, Filmmaking
- •Watercolor/Watercolour
Art Style
- •Abstraction, Abstract
- •Performance Art, Happenings
- •Pure Abstraction, Line, Shape, Color, Texture
Art Subject
- •Black, African Culture, Figure, Genre, Civil Rights
- •Figure, Figurative Humans
- •Social Commentary, Cultural Issues, Political, Racial Views
Geography/Places Lived and/or Worked
- •Asia, Orient
- •Japan
Art School
- •Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Student
- •Yale University School of Fine Art and Architecture, Student
- •Yale University School of Fine Art, and Architecture, Teacher
Awards/Recognition
- •John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship
- •National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
Chronology
- •Late 20th Century After 1950
Art Collection
- •Evans-Tibbs Collections
Added Description
- •A.I.R. Gallery, New York Women's Co-op
- •Abstraction Specialty
- •Art Educator:Teaching, Scholarship, Workshops and/or Writing
Ethnicity of Artist
- •Black, African-American and/or Caribbean
Exhibition of Museum
- •Contemporary Black Artists in America, Whitney Museum
- •Whitney Biennial Museum of American Art