Art Intelligence Global is thrilled to present its debut exhibition, Shatter: Color Field and the Women of Abstract Expressionism, a group show spotlighting five female artists whose pioneering explorations of color greatly expanded the frontiers of Abstract Expressionism. The exhibition will inaugurate Art Intelligence Global’s exhibition space in Hong Kong this fall, running from October 3 to December 2, 2022.

The show takes its title from Helen Frankenthaler’s Shatter (1953), a groundbreaking work generously on loan from the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation. Accompanying Shatter is Untitled (1950) by Lee Krasner, graciously on loan from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, as well as works by three other women forerunners who have until recently remained relative outsiders: Lynne Drexler, Alma Thomas, and Yvonne Thomas. For the latter three artists, Shatter: Color Field and the Women of Abstract Expressionism will be the first exhibition of their work in Asia; notably, it is also the first major presentation of Lynne Drexler’s work outside of Maine since she departed from the New York art scene in the mid-1960s. 

Shatter: Color Field and the Women of Abstract Expressionism examines a previously sidelined chapter in post-war American art, during which key women experimented, probed, and eventually triumphed in launching abstract painting beyond what had been established by the male-dominated New York School. If Hans Hofmann was the link between the European old guard—Matisse, Picasso, and Cezanne—and New York, then the ambitious young artists who studied with him, namely Helen Frankenthaler, Lee Krasner, Yvonne Thomas, and Lynne Drexler, were the bridge between the New York School and a more universal Color Field style.

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