LEE LOZANO y 8211/ DROPOUT PIECE

The artist Lee Lozano (1930--1999) began her career as a painter/ her work rapidly evolved from figuration to abstraction. In the la te 1960s, she created a major series of eleven monochromatic Wave paintings, her last in the medium. Despite her achievements as a p ainter, Lozano is best known for two acts of refusal, both of which she undertook as artworks: Untitled (General Strike Piece), begu n in 1969, in which she cut herself off from the commercial art world for a time/ and the so-called Boycott Piece, which began in 19 71 as a ...[Read more]