Polly Apfelbaum

Polly Apfelbaum is an American artist known for her vibrant, color-saturated installations, paintings, and works on paper that blur the boundaries between painting, sculpture, and decoration. Her practice often involves spreading or arranging dyed fabric, crushed velvet, and other materials across floors in sprawling, immersive compositions that explore pattern, color theory, and feminist craft traditions. She is considered a significant figure in the post-minimalist and Pattern and Decoration movements, celebrated for her playful yet rigorous engagement with materiality and abstraction.