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Jeanne Reynal, a woman Abstract Expressionist who 'painted in stone', gets overdue recognition

Installation view of Mosaic is Light: Work by Jeanne Reynal, 1940-1970 at Eric Firestone Gallery, New York
Courtesy Eric Firestone Gallery © 2021 Estate of Jeanne Reynal / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.Photo: Jenny Gorman
There is a tooth in one of Jeanne Reynal’s monochrome mosaics. You could almost miss it, embedded among hand-cut shards of glass, gemstone, and mother of pearl that the mid-20th century mosaicist used as tesserae. Yet the tooth is not the most unexpected thing about Reynal’s cement paintings and sculptures that fused Abstract Expressionism’s spontaneous gestures with mosaic a historic medium that traditionally demands precise premeditation. ....

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[Reviews] The Artist Disappears, By Christine Smallwood

Discussed in this essay:
Fierce Poise: Helen Frankenthaler and 1950s New York, by Alexander Nemerov. Penguin Press. 288 pages. $28.
Imagine, if you will, that it’s the year 1990, and you are flipping through the magazine
Art & Antiques. (Why you are doing this, I don’t know maybe you’re an art collector? Just imagine it.) You come across a photograph of a middle-aged white woman in a lemon-yellow sweater and low wedges. She’s perched inside some kind of gigantic wheeled frame, dark eyes cast to the side, laughing at a private joke. Cans of paint, buckets, and brushes, the tools of her trade, are organized on shelves beside her. She seems successful and, what’s more, adjusted to success happy, even carefree. On the floor is a work in progress, soupy reddish paint dotted with black specks. It vaguely resembles an exploded watermelon. “Every canvas is a journey all its own,” the text declares. ....

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