Libbie Mark: Abstract Expressionist focuses on Mark's "collage paintings" from the 1960s — works of rich materiality and tactile surface that merge gestural abstraction with layered constructions of crumpled paper, pigment, and impasto. Working between New York and Provincetown, and shaped by Hans Hofmann's final 1957 summer session, Mark developed a singular approach that earned critical praise for its "color brilliance" and "vividly sensuous response to visual experience." Though largely overlooked during her lifetime — her only solo show came in 1962 — renewed attention now positions her among a generation of women artists whose contributions to postwar abstraction are only beginning to receive full recognition.
