Jane Kaufman, artist who celebrated women s work, dies at 83
Jane Kaufman, Embroidered, Beaded Crazy Quilt, 1983-1985, embroidered thread and beads on quilted fabric, 94 × 82 in. (238.76 × 208.28 cm). Courtesy of the artist. Photo by Joshua Nefsky.
by Penelope Green
(NYT NEWS SERVICE)
.- Jane Kaufman was making minimalist paintings in the early 1970s, spraying automobile paint on huge canvases. To be sure, the paint was sparkly, so the canvases shimmered lyrical abstraction was how one reviewer described her art and that of others doing similar work but they were firmly of their reductive minimalist moment. Hilton Kramer of The New York Times approved, giving Kaufman a nod as a new abstractionist in his mostly dismissive review of the Whitney Biennial in 1973.