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Yellowstone Art Museum announces new artist
March 16, 2010

Polly Apfelbaum revels in color in her abstract paintings

Yellowstone Art Museum: Exhibition Opening Reception Polly Apfelbaum: Mini-Hollywood BILLINGS - Yellowstone Art Museum in Billings announces the opening of Polly Apfelbaum:Mini-Hollywood on April 1, 2010, at 5:30 p.m. Polly Apfelbaum drops veritable bombshells. Apfelbaum revels in color, and through her explorations over more than two decades, she has pushed many media-textiles, in particular-to new heights. Unconcerned with established categories of art making, Apfelbaum selects with purpose from a huge panoply of conceptual and material possibilities. As Susan Harris has stated, "Her practice has no single allegiance to painting, sculpture installation or drawing and is simultaneously controlled and intuitive, cerebral and gestural." From her studio in New York City, Apfelbaum has been working for over a year with YAM Senior Curator Robert C. Manchester to create a major installation specifically for our Northern Rockies audience. How the constructed "western" idea of Hollywood relates to the real west of Montana is informing her work for Billings. Exploring pure abstraction and the role of chance, Apfelbaum has begun to relate works to specific American places, those most associated themselves with chance and risk, such as Las Vegas, Atlantic City, and Reno. She has recently been working with sequined fabric in abstract shapes resembling castoffs from the garment district. Instead, they are carefully made shapes placed on the floor. She refers to her installations as "fallen paintings." Visitors move through and within her works, interacting with them and perceiving shifting iridescent colors. The YAM is the region's largest contemporary art museum offering changing exhibitions, education, cafe, museum store, and a 7,300-piece permanent collection. The Yellowstone Art Museum hours are Tuesday, Wednesday, Saturday, 11 a.m. - 6 p.m • Thursday, Friday, 11 a.m. - 8 p.m. • Sunday, 11 a.m. - 4 p.m. Admission: Members free, $5 adults, $3 students with valid ID, $3 children 6 - 18, under 6 free, $10 family (2 adults and 3 children max.) $4 discount price (please inquire). Polly Apfelbaum, Ice, 1998

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