Polly Apfelbaum, 68, is an award-winning contemporary visual artist who is primarily known for her colorful drawings, sculptures, and fabric floor pieces, which she refers to as “fallen paintings.” These large-scale installations consist of hundreds of hand-cut and hand-dyed pieces of velvet fabric that are arranged on the floor. She lives and works in New York City.
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Quote: “In 2002 Apfelbaum was the recipient of an Academy Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In 2012-2013, she was the recipient of the Joseph H. Hazen Rome Prize, a prize that is awarded to a select group of individuals who represent the highest standard of excellence in the arts and humanities. She has also been a recipient of a Joan Mitchell Grant, a Richard Diebenkorn Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1993, an Artist’s Fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts, and the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant.”
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