The Really Cool Collection
Really Cool Art is a growing collection of established and up & coming artist mostly focused on contemporary art with an infusion of some more traditional art.
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Artist: Pat Passlof
Pat Passlof was an Abstract Expressionist painter and staple in the New York art scene for over 60 years. She studied painting with Josef Albers, R. Buckminster Fuller, and Willem de Kooning at Black Mountain College; de Kooning’s influence in gestural abstraction can be seen in an early untitled work from 1949.
By the 1950s, Passlof had developed a distinctive approach that sometimes included the quasi-figurative elements that can be seen in Archie G (1955). Mulberry (1967), a tall oil on linen work blends orange, red, and pink tones in a flowery manner; it is indicative of the more formally focused turn her work took in the 1960s and 70s. From the 1980s until her death in 2011, Passlof made both figurative works—often landscapes populated with centaurs, nymphs, and horses—and large abstractions derived from repeated patterns and marks such as Hawthorne (1999).
Married to Milton Resnick, a foundation including exhibition space was set up in their names in a converted synagogue on Manhattan’s Lower East Side.