Adrianne Wortzel, Still from Friends, Mark Rappaport, 1967
Adrianne Wortzel, an American artist born in 1941, has navigated a distinctive path throughout her career, which spans over six decades. She emerged as a visual artist in her native New York during the postwar art period, studying under Louise Bourgeois, Burgoyne Diller, Jimmy Ernst and Ad Reinhardt at Brooklyn College. While she has abiding roots in abstract painting, her work defies obvious classification, encompassing pioneering telerobotic performance productions, net-based art, videos, writings, kinetic objects and algorithmically generated artists' books. She interweaves elements of the ancient and modern; through imagery, forms and emergent technologies, forming her own visual language. Wortzel draws inspiration from a myriad of sources including themes of otherness, identity, autonomy, personal biography, consistently blending fiction and non-fiction through the lens of technological evolution. Her bold experimentation and extensive forms have expanded the boundaries of artistic expression, firmly establishing her as a visionary in the annals of modern art history.
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