MARISOL Escobar - In Memoriam by Paul Tschinkel

Here we see a large exhibition of Marisol's fantastic work at the Neuberger Museum at Purchase College Museum. She died last Saturday April 30, 2016 at the age of 85. She was major woman artist who exhibited with Leo Castelli and Sidney Janis in the Sixties. Her playful, witty and ambitious work made her an important member of the Pop Art movement. Art historian/critic Eleanor Heartney writes, “What endures in Marisol’s work is the universality of the impulses she captures. Truly a sculptor of modern life, she evokes the venality of social climbers, the integrity of great artists, the contradictions of the powerful and the quiet dignity of the dispossessed. She feels both their absurdity and their pain and encourages us to do the same.”