Edith Schloss (1919-2011), one of America’s great expatriate artists whose paintings, assemblages, collages, watercolors and drawings border on the bittersweet, fragile, intimate and naive. Intrinsically linked to the milieu of postwar American art, every aspect of the artist’s eccentric personal iconography will be on view. This is the first show of the artist’s work in New York in twenty-five years.

Curated by Jason Andrew and organized in collaboration with the Brooklyn-based nonprofit arts organization Norte Maar, this exhibition represents the most comprehensive showing of the artist’s work, offering examples from throughout her career beginning with still lifes of the 1950s and scenes of Penobscot Bay in Maine, to seascapes from her beloved studio in Lerici, Italy, and to the mythological abstractions she painted up until her death.

The exhibition also includes a gallery dedicated to Schloss’s friends and acquaintances, with work by Ellen Auerbach, Nell Blaine, Rudy Burckhardt, Joseph Cornell, Alberto Giacometti, Willem de Kooning, Helen DeMott, Rackstraw Downes, Philip Pearlstein, Yvonne Jacquette, Fairfield Porter, Robert Rauschenberg, Larry Rivers, Cy Twombly, Jack Tworkov and Francesca Woodman among others.

Additionally a selection of ephemera including letters, photographs and diaries from the Edith Schloss Estate archive will be on view.

Art is a nourishment which is made from the fabric of our daily life but lifts us beyond it to make us see a world bigger than ourselves.
—Edith Schloss, La Serra, 1976

What I really do is what any painter worth his salt has always done. I abstract color and line from life around me, and make another life out of it.
—Edith Schloss

Schloss’ work is beautiful and explosive, moved at once by strength and lightness, by a vibrating breath contained in spaces that can be as small as the palm of a hand.
—Toni Maraini, Rome, 2011

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