The inspirational artists : Ida Applebroog

A self-proclaimed ‘generic artist’ and an ‘image scavenger,’ painter and feminist pioneer Ida Applebroog spent the past six decades conducting a sustained inquiry into the polemics ofhuman relations. She explored themes of violence and power, gender politics, women’ssexuality and domestic space using images stylistically reminiscent of comics, at once beguiling and disturbing.She developed an instantly recognizable style of simplified human forms with bold outlines. In an Applebroog exhibition, the visitor becomes an observer and aparticipant in a domestic drama where fragmented narrative scenes are neither beginnings nor ends to the story.