Lee Krasner: Living Colour @ Barbican Art Gallery in London

Lee Krasner: Living Colour Installation View with Chrysalis, 1964 and Portrait in Green, 1969 Barbican Art Gallery 30 May–1 September 2019 © Tristan Fewings/Getty Images

Lee Krasner, Untitled, 1946, Collection of Bobbi and Walter Zifkin. © The Pollock-Krasner Foundation. Photograph by Jonathan Urban.

Lee Krasner, Self-Portrait, c. 1928, The Jewish Museum, New York. © The Pollock-Krasner Foundation. Courtesy the Jewish Museum, New York.

Lee Krasner, Mosaic Table, 1947, Private Collection. © The Pollock-Krasner Foundation. Courtesy Michael Rosenfeld Gallery LLC, New York.

Lee Krasner: Living Colour Installation View with Another Storm, 1963, Barbican Art Gallery 30 May–1 September 2019 © Tristan Fewings/Getty Image

Lee Krasner, Abstract No. 2, 1947, IVAM Centre, Spain. © The Pollock-Krasner Foundation. Courtesy IVAM.

Lee Krasner, Bald Eagle, 1955, Collection of Audrey Irmas, Los Angeles. © The Pollock-Krasner Foundation. Photograph by Jonathan Urban.

Lee Krasner, Desert Moon, 1955, Los Angeles County Museum of Art. © The Pollock-Krasner Foundation. © 2018. Digital Image Museum Associates/LACMA/Art Resource NY/ Scala, Florence.

Lee Krasner, Imperative, 1976, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. © The Pollock-Krasner Foundation. Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.

Lee Krasner: Living Colour Installation View with Palingenesis, 1971, Barbican Art Gallery 30 May–1 September 2019 © Tristan Fewings/Getty Images

Lee Krasner, Prophecy, 1956, Private Collection. © The Pollock-Krasner Foundation. Courtesy Kasmin Gallery, New York. Photograph by Christopher Stach

Lee Krasner at the WPA Pier, New York City, where she was working on a WPA commission, c.1940. Photograph by Fred Prater. Lee Krasner Papers, c.1905-1984. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

The first European retrospective of Lee Krasner’s work in over fifty years is now showing at the Barbican Art Gallery in London. Lee Krasner: Living Colour features nearly 100 works made throughout the artist’s career, including self-portraits, energetic charcoal life drawings, as well as her acclaimed “Little Image” paintings. As one of the pioneers of Abstract Expressionism, Krasner created pieces reflecting the feeling of possibility and the spirit of experimentation in post-war New York. Krasner’s talents have often been eclipsed by her marriage to Jackson Pollock, however, this exhibition celebrates the career of a formidable artist dedicated to her dynamic, abstracted vision.

Lee Krasner: Living Colour is on view through September 1 at Barbican Art Gallery Barbican Centre, Silk St, London. photographs courtesy of Barbican Art Gallery

HELEN FRANKENTHALER: SELECTED PAINTINGS @ Yares Art In New York

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Helen Frankenthaler, New York City, 1974. Photograph by Alexander Liberman

Source: International Center for Photography

Helen Frankenthaler (1928-2011) is one of the most important and influential postwar painters, whose abstract compositions, featuring brilliant expanses of color and light, have inspired generations of artists and changed the course of art history. She led the way from Abstract Expressionism to a new and vital form of painterly lyricism that heralded the Color Field movement. On view in this exhibition are some twenty major large-scale paintings that celebrate the New York-born artist’s formidable, six-decade career. A classic Frankenthaler work, Swan Lake II (1961), filled with ethereal pools of electric blue, grays, and deep red, against a neutral ground, is a quintessential example of her unparalleled achievement. Helen: Frankenthaler: Selected Paintings will be on view through May 18 at Yares Art 745 5th Ave.