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Ida Applebroog

Ida Applebroog was born in Bronx, NY. In 1949 she attended NY State Institute of Applied Arts and Sciences. In 1956 she relocated to Chicago where she later attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Before returning to NY in 1973 she taught at the University of California in San diego.

Style
Applebroog uses simplistic dark outlines to create human figures. She uses everyday domestic or urban scenes to express her thoughts on gender and sexual identity, power struggles both political and personal, and the damaging role of mass media in desensitizing the public to violence. In many of her pieces she uses repetition to comment on the repetition of the activities she is portraying in every day life.

Her work is relevant today because it comments on current issues in a way that is comical and ironic and catches the attention of a fast moving culture.

Exhibitions/Other Activities
"Invisible/Visible", Long Beach Art Museum, 1972

"Applebroog: Silent Stagings", her first exhibition at Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, NY, 1981

Her art is displayed at the Museum of Modern Art, Guggenheim Museum, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Corcoran Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of Art, and others.











Works Cited
http://www.pbs.org/art21/artists/applebroog/index.html#
http://www.idaapplebroog.com/bio.html
http://www.wfu.edu/art/ac_applebroog_promise.htm

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