Marjorie Strider
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MARJORIE STRIDER
Strider herself made as big a splash as any centering what many consider to be one of the first great exhibits of the Pop movement, the "First International Girlie Show" at Pace gallery featuring Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Tom Wesselman...and her own three dimensional, flat-painted triptychs of giant bombshell women. Pieces she later recognized as being an ironic take on the men's world of art, and an early feminist statement. From 1964 to 1968 she had and two solo three group shows at Pace, reviews and feature stories in all the art press, pieces bought by museums. She started doing performances on the streets, then in galleries. She was a regular at the Whitney. She created a whole three-dimensional body of "ooze" works,
"The problem was that I wasn't making art that could sell, most of the time," she remembers of her career and its many shifts. "The drawings and sketches could sell. Or I'd get a grant. Most of my early work ended up in museums.
"Yet, you know, that's what being an artist's all about; changing," she says, showing off her new work with ceramics. "I'm always cooking up ideas."
She adds how her work has always been a few years ahead of its time, not fully recognized, or recognizable even, until later. But now she's feeling good about all that's passed, and how the various creations, the many exhibits and different styles, odd movements, have ended up adding to a whole greater than its individual parts.
"I seem to be coming back again, thank god," she says, dramatically.
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