Museum of the Invisible Woman, an ongoing project with artist Adam Milner, culminates in publication
Adam Milner sleeps in Clyfford Still Museum south painting storage. Photo: Matt Slaby.
DENVER, CO
.- Artist Adam Milner recently completed a unique, two-year project with the Clyfford Still Museum (CSM), concluding with the forthcoming publication, Museum of the Invisible Woman. During the project, Milner combined archival research with in-situ interventions at the Museum to center explorations around Patricia Still, Clyfford Stills second wife, who dedicated her life to his painting career and eventually to fulfilling Stills vision for the Museum.
The book repositions Clyfford Still as an artist dependent on community and the labor of loved ones, rather than the usual narrative of outsider, rebel, or loner genius. In the publication, themes surrounding love, labor, gender, ego, and legacy ultimately shift attention from the abstract expressionist master to his wife and to m