An icon of postwar American art, Betty Woodman (1930—2018) elegantly synthesized musings on history, gender, labor and domesticity to produce dynamic and exuberantly colorful painted ceramics. Animated by the medium’s unpredictable nature, Woodman’s oeuvre is characterized by a ceaseless experimentation with structure, functionality and archetype. As her career progressed, Woodman’s vessels expanded into joyful installations which took the form of ceramic wall configurations, as well as imagined dwellings of some of her art historical predecessors—including the Italian Renaissance painter Fra Angelico and the post-Impressionist Pierre Bonnard—which combined her decades-long ceramics practice with both single and multi-paneled painted canvases. Woodman also found inspiration in the saturated light of Antella, Italy, where she spent much of her adult life, as well as in the landscapes of Boulder, Colorado. She also lived and worked in New York.
 
100 pages, full color ills., many full-page. Includes a conversation between the artist and Barry Schwabsky.