Even her father - who badly wanted a John, not a Joan - told her she’d never amount to much because of her gender. People, weather, landscapes, memories - all throbbed with the intensity of the palette of another hero, Vincent van Gogh.įiercely competitive from an early age, Mitchell waged a lifelong battle against sexism. Like one of her idols, Wassily Kandinsky, she was a synesthete, perceiving color in other sensory perceptions. Nor did she emulate the random effects of an artist like Jackson Pollock every brushstroke was intentional.Īlthough Mitchell never created a movement, she stands out for her striking use of color. Although she borrowed their gestures and techniques, her paintings capture remembered landscapes and emotions, not the artist’s inner world. Her current project is Everything is Photograph: A Life of André Kertész to be published by Other Press.Sometimes called a second-generation abstract expressionist, Mitchell defies such labeling. Albers lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. She also published Tina Modotti and the Mexican Renaissance, the catalog for the exhibition of Modotti’s photographs that she co-curated for Stockholm’s Moderna Museet and the Arles Photography Festival. Albers’s previous book, Shadows, Fire, Snow: The Life of Tina Modotti, earned a starred review in Publishers Weekly and was named a Best Book of 1999 by the Library Journal. Patricia Albers is the author of Joan Mitchell, Lady Painter: A Life (Knopf), the first biography of the Abstract Expressionist painter. She makes her home in Oakland, California. Her essays and art reviews have appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Daily Beast, The Los Angeles Times, Literary Hub, Hyperallgic, SquareCylinder, Art & Object, Art Papers, The Rumpus, and The Huffington Post among others. Her books include the first comprehensive biography of the revered American painter, Sam Francis, Light on Fire, and Unstill Life: Art and Love in the Age of Abstraction. Gabrielle Selz is an award-winning author. With settings from World War II San Francisco to post-war Paris, New York, Tokyo and Los Angeles, Selz writes an intimate portrait of a man who sought to resolve in art the contradictions he couldn’t resolve in life. His entrepreneurial spirit led to founding a museum, a publishing company, a reforestation program and several non-profits.
His restless desire resulted in five marriages and homes on three continents. While still a young man, Francis saw his color-saturated paintings fetch the highest prices of any living artist. Masks are strongly encouraged for unvaccinated individuals.ĭrawing on exclusive interviews and private correspondence, Gabrielle Selz traces the extraordinary life of this complex and charismatic artist who first learned to paint as a former air-corps pilot encased for three years in a full-body cast.
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