Artist field note

Howardena Pindell

Abstraction is never neutral.

Appears inThe Overlooked
Autobiography series by Howardena Pindell — Example from the series
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Autobiography series

1980s

Photographs, maps and fragments of the artist's life are cut and reassembled after a serious accident disrupted memory.

The five in one idea

Pindell showed that formal invention and political experience do not have to live in separate rooms.