I first came across Lee Krasner and her work almost 20 years ago after travelling to the US as well as learning more about the artist Jackson Pollock via the biopic Pollack.
Like many female artists her work isn’t exhibited as prominently as her male contemporaries so the recent exhibition at the Barbican was a real treat. (As an aside the Barbican have really upped their exhibition game over the past couple of years having had the Basquiat exhibition recently too.)
What I loved about the exhibition was her use of colour and shape, in particular her use of previous works torn and placed as a collage to create a new work such as Desert Moon, below.
Here are some of her other works from that exhibition that I found particularly inspiring.
