Abstract Expressionism

The diverse practices of artists known as the Abstract Expressionists resist stylistic definition. Pollock's drip, Newman's zip, Rothko's soft fields of color have obscured an even greater range of experimentation by women and artists of color including Hedda Sterne, Lee Krasner, Elaine deKooning, Janet Sobel, Rose Piper, Norman Lewis, Hale Woodruff, and many others who explored improvisation and questions of existance in the wake of the Holocaust and the atomic bomb.