Ida Applebroog

b. 1929, Bronx, New York, US

A self-proclaimed ‘generic artist’ and ‘image scavenger’, painter and feminist Applebroog has spent the past half-century conducting a sustained enquiry into human relations. At once beguiling and disturbing, her work explores themes of violence and power, gender politics, and women’s sexuality and domestic space. In an Applebroog exhibition, the visitor becomes an observer and participant in a domestic drama, presented as fragmented narrative scenes. Applebroog was the subject of a solo show at the Kunstmuseum Thun in Switzerland in 2019, and an exhibition of her Mercy Hospital drawings, executed during her stay in a psychiatric clinic from 1969–1970, opened at London’s Freud Museum in February.