Kiki Kogelnik: "Early Works, 1964-1970"

Kogelnik (1935–1997) is the latest in a series of forgotten female artists from the 1960s and ’70s to have something of a revival. Born in Graz, Austria, she moved to New York in 1961, having studied art in Vienna. She became part of the Pop Art scene, befriending folks like Roy Lichtenstein and Claes Oldenburg, and she was a frequent visitor to Warhol's Factory. Her own work was ignored, which was par for the course in an era dominated by male artists. The works here, which have never been exhibited before, consist of Pop-inflected spray-painted or airbrush paintings dominated by figures that look like they came out of an anatomy texbook.